I’m playing a goblin monk who is a traps expert, and moved to a different table this week. I quickly discovered that, at my table, there were: an evil kobold mage, an evil human cleric, and an evil minotaur sha’ir. Note: no defender. While I believe alignment is unnecessary in a good RPG, I also […]
Notes from a Gaming Weekend
My friend Mike and I went to Strategicon this weekend and played a bunch of games. Here are our notes. With a very few exceptions, we were both lucky to play with excellent Game Masters/Storytellers/Keepers/Dungeon Masters. In fact, we discussed how many of these games would be much harder to run for inexperienced GMs. Mike […]
D&D Encounters – Session 1
I feel bad about posting this to my blog, but I also feel… justified. Understand: there are some things that were great about this night of gaming, and a large amount of the problems I had were due to a newer DM. That said…. I have a rant to make. I wrote this the day […]
Minis!
I’ve been painting miniatures again, now that I have my D&D stuff and new paints. I went to the “paint and take” workshop at Strategicon over Memorial Day weekend and learned a lot of great techniques. As a result, I have a few dancing girls to show off. These are miniatures by Malifaux. I love […]
Free RPG Day was a Hit
This year, I organized the 4th Edition D&D games for Free RPG Day at my local comic book shop, Avatar Comics and Games. It was a huge hit. We decided to run the current season of D&D Encounters, through session #6 (the most recent session played until then). That meant about 6 hours of 4th […]