Inspire Confidence Archive

Gen Con, school starting, and day job were a big bump in the road for adventure writing, as predicted. I have been working on my outline for the adventure, which is still pretty flimsy. Outlining is just like you...

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...

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...