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Adventure Prep: Strapping it all together to get it going good!

January 21, 2008 – 8:01 pm

This post is part of a series that covers the preparations I do for my current D&D campaign. You can follow it here and the various DM logs I wrote here.
Our next D&D game is Friday night. Weeee!
This time we’ll be missing our Archer as Franky will be working during the [...]

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Getting back in the game!

January 17, 2008 – 6:27 pm

Along with other RPG GMing bloggers, I was contacted by Role-playing Tips guru, Johnn Four this week to contribute to his next Newsletter. Not wanting to miss the exposition of being read by so many people, I happily accepted. Heck he even offered to let us use our submission as a [...]

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Mining Tropes for RPG Goodness: Fighting Depression with some Deep Pression!

January 14, 2008 – 6:42 pm

This is the blog’s 200th post! I’ve written a lot of stuff in the last few months, and I’ve enjoyed it immensely. Thank you one and all for giving me the continued gratification of reading these many lines!
Now instead of making this a stats-laden article, I thought I’d write another post [...]

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DM Chronicles, Session 9: Troubled re-beginnings

January 13, 2008 – 11:42 am

This is a continuing series on my current D&D campaign with my buddies.
I had no illusions that this week’s game was going to be stellar.
My 1st goal of the evening was to get with my pals for the 1st the of the new year and celebrate my 35th Birthday (which was yesterday) and [...]

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My tools of the trade, Part 2

January 11, 2008 – 3:14 pm

Back in October I posted about the tools and props I used in my D&D games.
Well since my game is ready and good to go, I took a few more pictures of how I organize my things to have the smoothest of Crunchy game sessions.
My DMing Corner:
I have a recently renovated room in my basement [...]