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How to DM Without DMing 23 Aug 2013 | 01:01 am
I know the title makes no sense. Earlier today, I ran a session involving three players and lasting about seven hours. During that session, I watched over their antics and reaped the rewards of a sel...
Some Thoughts on Magic 24 Jul 2013 | 07:15 am
I've often thought about writing something about magic in roleplaying, but Hapaxius Legomenon has beaten me to it, and between his dual essays and the article he linked at the bottom of part 2 I have ...
The King's Water 23 Jul 2013 | 08:45 am
I've been gaming to write a novel for a while now, and last week wrote this little fable to begin the book. The main function of this blog is supposed to be roleplaying musings, but the main function ...
Player Psychology, or, Don't Touch That Carrot! 28 Apr 2013 | 10:59 pm
Practically starting where the last post left off... I must tell this story. This comes from the campaign I told you about in On 1st Edition, in which I promised I'd hold as long a leash as possible ...
The March Post 17 Mar 2013 | 06:40 pm
I have this post, you see? And I've been working on it for about three months now. It's not my Swan Song or anything - it's not even that good, and it wouldn't get too much attention even if I posted ...
Favorite Books 15 Dec 2012 | 08:41 am
This evening I noticed that my Goodreads favorites list has hit 25 books - a nice, round, best-books-I've-ever-read-list number - and to continue the current trend of avoiding the massive, overcritica...
An Interesting Comparison 12 Dec 2012 | 08:36 am
The 1st edition, AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide is like the Constitution: It was written to unite a chaotic system. It became the single most important container of ideas in the world of thought it inh...
I as a DM 25 Nov 2012 | 07:24 am
As a DM I like to think everything I do is right. I make mistakes, sure, but when all goes well I’m a DM with every right idea. I have some limitless font of godly wisdom with which I make perfect dec...
Why We Need Fantasy 27 Oct 2012 | 06:41 am
(This is a response to “Why I Like Fantasy” on the blog Stars, Beetles, and Fools. It was originally posted as a comment, so don’t expect it to be some grand treatise. Length is never necessary anyway...
Specters 7 Oct 2012 | 10:53 pm
So I write screenplays. Or begin them, anyway, because I’ve never seen one through to the end. I have for in progress right now – the longest one, d20, is 80 pages in (it’s intended to be some kind o...
