Gaming Styles Clarified

I received lots of feedback about my gaming styles post.   I really appreciate all of you twitter friends that responded, as well as those that emailed me or left comments on the site. I truly appreciate hearing your thoughts.  In listening to all of the feedback two things have become abundantly clear to me… 1) […]

4e DMG Chapter by Chapter – CH 1 How to be a DM

Hello Dear Readers – today I am unfurling a new feature series here on the blog.  It’s called Chapter by Chapter, a series in which I intend to go through the 4e rule-set one chapter at a time and talk about some of the important parts of those chapters. I think the Dungeon Master’s Guide […]

How To Get More Role-Playing From Your Players

A hot topic in RPG circles, well, at least it’s hot on twitter with me and my twitter buddies today, is how to get more role-playing from your players.  Here are a couple of pieces of advice and one way to reward players, possibly causing more future role-playing on their parts… – 1) Encourage your […]

Raise Dead and the TPK

A couple of weeks ago I was playing in a 4e game which ended in a TPK.  That’s Total Party Kill for those of you not current with the lingo. A couple of bits of background info regarding the group… 1) This was the final session of a relatively long running campaign (more than two […]