My group is looking to wind down the current campaign. That’s probably for the best: The current plot has dragged on for months, mostly due to our inability to get together this summer. A gaming drought makes it easy to loose interest move on to the current shiny, and from my experience this is common [...]
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Dark Sun Apprehension
Posted in Personalities, tagged 4e, campaigns, d&d, dark sun on September 7, 2010 | 15 Comments »
Dealing With a Full House
Posted in Managing Up, Personalities, tagged d&d, dm, philosophy, player v dm, player v player, rp, the party on June 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I don’t envy my DM. This week she hosted six players. My preferred GM to group ratio is 1:4. Our group and the standard 4e rule book handles five players. And, in my experience, the organized play events fit 6 players to a game. This week our group had to deal with just about every [...]
How To Cheat in D&D
Posted in House Rules, Managing Up, Personalities, tagged 4e, philosophy, player v dm on June 2, 2010 | 7 Comments »
One of the great things about tabletop roleplaying is that for most groups winning and cheating are irrelevant concepts. D&D is about group storytelling; by negating the game mechanic through cheating you loose the ability to build memorable scenes out of failure and you won’t allow room for characters to grow. Why should experience (and [...]
Remembering Stuff
Posted in Personalities, tagged at the table, npcs, philosophy, roles, rp, tools on May 28, 2010 | 8 Comments »
My current campaign has a lot going on. A couple of characters have backstories tied into the campaign. In addition we have some traveling companions that are loose threads that need tying. There’s an an ever-evolving mythology and history of the realm with a new ancient character that needs to be kept track of each [...]
My DM was on the Tome Show
Posted in Personalities, Podcast, Skill Challenge, Uncategorized, tagged 4e, d&d, player vs dm, Podcast, sarah darkmagic, Skill Challenge, tome show on May 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
In the recent episode of The Tome Show, my DM (aka Sarah Darkmagic) built a skill challenge for us with the help of Mike from SlyFlourish. Here is her take on episode. I can’t vouch for the whole podcast as this is the first episode I listened to, but it was quite good so I’ve [...]
Gamer’s Court
Posted in Personalities, tagged court, d&d, dm, night court, player v dm, player v player on May 3, 2010 | 3 Comments »
It’s not often that I get to listen to The D6 Generation podcast. It’s a great podcast about gaming, including wargames, roleplaying, and board games with a strong focus on minatures gaming. Unfortunately the episodes usually run 3 hours long, which is a bit much for my commute. But this week I did get a [...]
When you can’t talk it out
Posted in Personalities, tagged 4e, d&d, player v player, skills, the party on April 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The solution to many of the player-player problems I’ve described over the past few months is a simple two-part solution: (a) don’t be a jerk, and (b) talk it out. This supposes not just that your fellow players are reasonable people, but that you’re all capable of giving and receiving constructive criticism. I would love [...]
More on Bad GMs : When it goes on too long
Posted in Managing Up, Personalities, tagged 4e, Combat, d&d, dm, player v dm, Skill Challenge, time, time management on April 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I want to continue my thoughts on managing your GM. Today I want to focus specifically on when you’re stuck at the game table too long. I find that in 4e, the two biggest users of time are combat and debating what to do. In our games we also spend a lot of time chit-chatting, [...]
You’re Playing Your Character Wrong
Posted in Combat, Personalities, tagged 4e, characters, Combat, d&d, other characters, player v player, roles, rp, sharing, the party, tropes on April 19, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Today’s Dork Tower illustrates a session recap where one of the heroes wound up doing tons of cool things the previous week , when the character was played by different player. I found great humor in this, as I have experienced this situation myself. It happens to all gaming groups: one guy can’t make it [...]
Playing with strangers
Posted in Personalities, tagged cons, conventions, d&d, gaming, groups, new people, the party on April 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Although I don’t think of my regular group as strangers, I did meet them all through my regular game. But in the last month I’ve played in six different games with people I had never met before. Thankfully the people were all cool, friendly, and well adjusted. In fact, this past weekend I played in [...]
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