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The Art of the Sidequest, Part 1
I’m a busy grown-up with a job and a tie and everything, and so are a lot of the people with whom I game. And one of the problems with being a busy grown-up is that sometimes non-gaming obligations bungle … Continue reading
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Long-Term Campaigns and DM Interest
In a long campaign players will spend a ridiculous amount of time in your world. If you meet for four hours a week you’ll rack up a solid real-world day of game time every six sessions, and extrapolated over sixty … Continue reading
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Achievement Unlocked
I may be a good DM, but I’m not the greatest player.
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Long-Term Campaigns and Player Interest
As I work through the second Zelda campaign (as opposed to the Second Zelda campaign, where the party has to figure out which princess is a robot), I’m finding some of my storytelling challenges are different from my normal campaigns. … Continue reading
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Cooperative Content Design
The players in my 4E campaign are currently at L10 and a short side-quest away from L11, which means they’re eying paragon paths. We’ve been flipping through a few books to put together some decent candidates, some obvious (the archer … Continue reading
Playing D&D 5E
I’ve been holding off on writing too much about D&D ZEXAL until I got a chance to play it. Rummaging through the books looking for theory is all well and good, but a gaming system is a system for gaming … Continue reading
Running a Video Game (or, an Apology My Players Don’t Want)
By my own standards I’ve been a terrible DM lately. When my latest campaign began, I didn’t give my players the normal pre-campaign survey. I haven’t been asking players to build levels for me. I haven’t been designing all encounters … Continue reading
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Tagged D&D 4E, Zelda Campaigns
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Hazards of 5E Character Sheet Design
In preparation for playing in my first 5E campaign I’ve come across something of a quandary concerning my character sheet. I’ve been using my own character sheets for years, designed in Excel (or OpenOffice). It lets me present the information … Continue reading
Removing Ability Scores
I got an interesting comment on my recent post In Defense of D&D Stats in Simple Language: What Measure is an 18?, and I think it merits discussion before we change topics: Out of curiosity, I wonder what your opinion … Continue reading
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Tagged D&D 3.5E, D&D 3E, D&D 4E, D&D 5E, Pathfinder
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In Defense of D&D Stats in Simple Language: The Definition of Charisma
Last post I responded to some of the comments on D&D Stats in Simple Language with “we’re both right”. Things don’t translate perfectly from one edition to another, and the stats simply won’t work if they’re applied to earlier or … Continue reading