Character development begins with an effective background and progresses through the entire life of a campaign. About a month ago I talked about character backgrounds and offered suggestions for GMs and players to effectively integrate those backgrounds into the...
I’m 100% stealing this line from my friend N. Jolly, but there are literally two types of Tabletop RPGs—Marks and Smarks. I don’t care who you are or what you say you believe in, you’re either a Mark or...
It’s a new year and a new year brings new opportunities. For me, that means a new blog! Fridays are now entirely my domain and I’m choosing to make them Fightin’ Fridays. Every Friday I will provide GMs something...
For the first Behind the Screens article of 2017, I thought I might start us off with a closer look at that rarest of game-type, the multi-table event. If you’ve had the opportunity to go to GenCon and secured...
There’s a lot we can learn as tabletop RPG gamers from video games. Ryan and Perram and special guest Ariadne MacGillivray talk about the video games that have inspire how they play characters, create worlds, and run games.
There’s a lot we can learn as tabletop RPG gamers from video games. Ryan and Perram and special guest Ariadne MacGillivray talk about the video games that have inspire how they play characters, create worlds, and run games.
In Keyword Design, I use a single word as inspiration for a mundane item, a magic item, a feat, a spell, and a class option. Today’s word is Canada. A dedicated group of Internet pranksters is trying to convince the...
I’ll be filling in for James this week, taking this opportunity to remind you that I’m Canadian, how Canadian I am, how great I think Canada is, and a brief history of being Canadian. Seriously. As mentioned yesterday, I’ll...