Pandemic the board game has become quite the go-to for my group when we just don’t feel like doing D&D. It’s an awesome game, and one of the few games where it’s fun when you loose as well as when you win. It’s especially fun when you’ve almost won but then suddenly loose… it makes [...]
Posts Tagged ‘in-between’
5 Things I Learned From Pandemic
Posted in Gathering Inspiration, philosophy, tagged board games, d&d, in-between, metgaming, pandemic, philosophy, roles on October 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
[Your Advice] No Game? Problem.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged d&d, in-between, rants on August 11, 2010 | 4 Comments »
My group missed its game tonight, bringing down our average this summer to less than 1 game per 3 weeks. I would love to keep gaming week after week but real life keeps getting in the way. My younger self believed that we could keep the gang together by getting together for a game, movie, [...]
Saving the game in the middle of combat
Posted in Combat, Table Tips, tagged 4e, character sheet, Combat, d&d, dm, in-between, metgaming on March 10, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Because my group has a limited time to game each week (about 3-3.5) hours, the amount of stuff we can do in an individual session is pretty limited. In particular, there’†s a big burden on the DM to craft encounters that she knows we can finish in that time. Sometimes the story leading up to [...]
Play by email
Posted in Personalities, tagged bloggers, gamementum, google wave, in-between, Skill Challenge on November 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been interested for a while now in exploring ways to game away from the table. There’s been a lot of activity recently about using Google Wave as a RPG medium. I also tried getting a play by email campaign going a few months ago, and that fizzled before it even began. There’s a certain [...]
Player focus
Posted in Podcast, tagged attention, in-between, the party on November 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In the recent Fear the Boot #168, the guys on that podcast focused on how to keep a player’s attention during a game. The arguments for wanting players to stay focused are good ones, and I can pretty much summarize them with the following statement: “people have limited time to game, and everyone has agreed [...]
What to do in an off-week
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged in-between on November 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One problem with adulthood is that there are a lot of competing interests for one’s time. No matter what we might try, life happens and we don’t get to game every week. When we can, we still get together for some non-gaming hanging out. For those occasions I keep the D&D cartoon dvd set, runebound, [...]
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