Role-playing

New players are a fact of life for GMs. They may have never played a tabletop RPG before, or only using vastly different systems. How do you introduce yourself? How do you lay the ground rules? I’m still figuring it out, but I do have a few things I make sure to go through. I […]

I’ve been working on a D&D adventure, War in the Deep. It’s an underwater adventure in which the players are transported to an undersea kingdom, where they have to rescue a princess consumed with bloodlust. (Which, incidentally, you can buy at DriveThruRPG for $5!) Anyway, here’s how I designed it: I started with the reason […]

I love role-playing. This is odd, since I only started role-playing a few years ago. And yet I’ve loved it since I was a young boy. My older brother was a role-player. He played D&D, and Car Wars, and others, I’m sure. After he died, I looked over his few remaining hand-written materials. I was […]

Oh, I hope this one stays up for awhile. ZDnet has an article entitled “Analysts: No market for a third browser.” They’re basically predicting that Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer will remain the only browsers on the market, because there “simply isn’t a business model for a mainstream third browser”. Prediction: Back in the Dark Ages of the web, there was only Netscape, and it was a good browser. Then came Internet Explorer, […]