The making of a game designer While I think many of you reading my blog have some passing knowledge of who I am as a game designer, my blog was conceived as a resource for the new gamer or...
Gen Con 2017 is now just fading treasured memories of celebrating 50 years of gaming with friends, family, fans, and complete strangers who love the same things we do. As in years past, Gen Con 2017 was full of...
We are 7 days for Gen Con 2017. SEVEN DAYS till the best 4 Days of Gaming (TM)! This year is a big deal, it is also the 50th Gen Con and a sold out crowd. If this is...
Somewhere in the vast internet space of Facebook, someone asked a question about how to handle their young family member who likes to kill all the things, regardless of their place in the story – apparently including tavern patrons...
I wrote this blog just prior to Paizo’s 2014 RPG Superstar contest. I’m resharing it this week for two reasons, writing this week’s blog was trickier to schedule than I originally planned and because I needed to hear this...
I frequently write about how to tell good stories with the other people at your gaming table, I do that because my preferred style of gaming involves character and story development, which I learned during my years of LARPing...
This week I’m going to talk about Wonder Woman because it is important and amazing. I plan to avoid spoilers, but I will discuss some minor details that should not ruin the overall movie for you, dear reader, I’m...
There comes a point in everyone’s gaming life where the game they’re playing just doesn’t hold the same thrill it once did. Maybe you’ve played a fighter, a cleric, a sorcerer, a wizard, a druid, a psychic, an inquisitor,...
Sounds heard in the darkness, your ranger pulls an arrow from their quiver as the fighter draws their sword and slips a forearm through their shield straps. Everyone places their minis on the map, readying their dice. “What is...
Since 2014 the hashtag #notallmen began popping up, sometimes from frustrated individuals who are upset that men are lumped together, sometimes ironically from individuals who are tired of being the subject of systemic power imbalance, and all sorts of...