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Where has the post-game funk gone?

August 27, 2007 – 7:36 am

I don’t feel down at all about the bad game we had last Friday, I’m actually surprised at that. While bad sessions are a lot rarer than they were (switching from Gurps to D&D 3.0 was hard!), I often felt that it was finally time to hang my RPG skates after such a session. [...]

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DM Chronicles, Session 1: Harsh Beginnings

August 26, 2007 – 4:56 pm

This series will be a DM-centric log of my current D&D campaign, it will not be an attempt at telling a story so much as being a ‘lessons learned’ tool for me to reflect on what was good and what wasn’t so good in the last session. It will be mostly about game mechanics, [...]

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Happy B’day Shamus

August 24, 2007 – 11:58 am

Shamus Young of DM of the Ring fame turns 36 today.
Happy Birthday man! You created something really big and cool and we appreciate you doing it for us. I’m really curious about what’s coming next. I speculate that it will be a RPG satire (confirmed) but probably based on his own gaming [...]

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Interplannar adventures

August 24, 2007 – 8:00 am

Warning, Spoilers for Monte Cook’s Ptolus d20 setting. Safe for my players to read.
I’ve been wishing to do a multiplanar campaign for a long time. A D&D 2nds edition was the period I had left that game for the crunchiness and detail of Gurps. So I missed out on Planescape, having touched [...]

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Recent DMing stuff from the Bloggoshere

August 22, 2007 – 10:10 am

Instead of writing new DMstuff, why not link to interesting things other people have to say on the subject of DMing?
Danny (Bartoneous) from Critical-hits talks about how to end a gaming session. I agree that Cliffhangers are a great way to end a D&D gaming night. I’ll further add* that Cliffhangers are sometimes [...]