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Yearly Archives: 2008

Teaching Role Playing Games to New Players

This is a guest post of mine that originally appeared in Johnn Four’s Roleplaying tips newsletter #408.  It’s reprinted here to allow for comments.  Subscribe to John’s weekly e-zine for awesome RPG tips delivered to your inbox.
Introduction
Unless you have been living under a rock, you likely know there is a new edition of D&D out. [...]

Player Motivation and Types Revisited, Again

The Gen Con 2008 seminar I’ll co-host with my friends DNAPhil, Zach and Vicki is going to be about sharing tips with GMs about prepping RPG game session .  My parts of that seminar (What I’ve been doing most nights of this week and possibly the next one) will cover Using Tropes (yay!) and Player [...]

What’s your disgustingly good local dish?

I’m smack dab in the middle of my Gen Con preparation week (which will likely bleed over into the next one). This means that whatever I post here is going to be very light in relevant content.
Since I can’t shut up and I hate silence, I put up little texts just to let you [...]

Mini-Post: Ascension of the Drow and 4e Fantastic Terrain

Gen Con Drow Insanity
This morning I had an email by Nicholas Logue, adventure writer extraordinaire from both Paizo and his own Sinister Adventures. Here it is:
Hi All!
If you are on this list, it means you have volunteered to GM and or assist with the Ascension of the Drow mega-event at Gencon this year! [...]

Random Thoughts: Story Telling Dungeon Crawling Kids in Diablo’s Caves to Crit Mearls

(Told you I would not last a week)
I was supposed to be at work, getting ready for the arrival of a new colleague in my team but my 6 year old son has developed a case of Chicken Pox.
I’m therefore at home, playing some Raving Rabbits 2 with him and drawing some Manga out of [...]

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