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My Game is in Trouble – Help Me Out!

A reader responded to a post I made yesterday with a “Help My Game” plea.  I deemed this topic and the example posed good enough for its own post.  Without further ado, here is Kaliam’s original comment, followed by my reply: I need help please! I’m running a campaign of a game I made with [...]

Never Let Them Win!

- Even if we set aside the question of whether or not a player can actually win D&D, the title of this post makes a strong statement.  Today’s post is about the perils of invoking a railroad in order to tell a story you want the players to experience, and then letting the players win [...]

Feeling 4tigued

This post is in large part due to a comment I made on Twitter the other day after my last session. The text of which was the following:

Last night’s #dnd session was the best in *months* but I think I discovered that I don’t really like 4E :sadclownface:

This led to an all-day (and well into the evening) discussion of what my problems with the system are. The resulting conversation showed that it isn’t simply the edition’s system at fault, but partly the fault of my players and self. However, the system is fatiguing me, hence my coining of the “word” 4tigued.

Worldbreakers: Sheemish and the Thousand Dream Army

First off, if you’ve not heard of a Worldbreaker, get ye to the At Will Blog and bask in the glow of Quinn Murphy’s zany and genius idea to improve the 4e solo monster.  Worldbreakers and their for-the-moment neglected cousins Lawbreakers incorp0rate a structure that change the pace of the counter and make the monster [...]

Opportunity Actions: Red Box Play Report (Thurgenar’s Take)

After much anticipation, I got a chance to play in a Red Box scenario engineered by our own DM Samuel, the payoff to RPG Musings’ Red Box Haiku contest. I was one who volunteered to play and be recorded for an actual play podcast of the event. (I’ll post a link when it becomes available.) [...]

Opportunity Actions: Send-Up to New York Comic-Con

This weekend, the 8th-10th of October my wife (the +1 Wife of Awesomeness) and I attended the New York Comic-Con, normally my big con outing of the year, and our one annual vacation. Also, I always make it a point to swing by the Wizards of the Coast booth, because, if nothing else, it ensures [...]

Opportunity Actions: Races of Athas – Shifters and Wilden

Ok. I hope I’ve been making a decent impact with these posts. My theme, such that it is for this post, is geographical in nature. These two races are inextricably connected to the lands where they originate, and I thought that important to their identities as I adapt them to Dark Sun. The Challenges Shifters [...]