Start It Up!

We’ve started up our Eberron game again after a bit of a sojourn down into the Tomb of Horrors and last night was the first session and my first time running this group of characters in a campaign that already has a fairly long history.
The interesting part of the first session lay in gathering all [...]

List ‘Em!

So what are the games that you want to try this year? I know that this is probably more of a New Year’s type of post, but I’ve always thought of August as the REAL New Year anyway, and I think that this year will be the best year of High School ever! [...]

For DM’s Only! (That is, for Keeley if he wants it)

The new adventure path kicks off in Dungeon Magazine today! Rescue at Rivenroar is up!  It’s part one of The Scales of War campaign that will continue in each issue for many months to come.
Could be fun!

Party Starters

You’ve got a system, you’ve got a setting, and you’ve got players. Now how are you going to get this disparate group of characters your clever players have created together to form a cohesive group? As a GM, this is the thing I’m usually the most worried about with a new game. Now if you’ve [...]

Fourthwright

In less than two weeks, I’m going to be running my first D&D 4e game, and while I have some trepidations, I am a little excited about it.  Any time I try running a new game, I get a little excited. New rules! New characters! New adventures! New problems!
Anyway, in anticipation, I think I should [...]

It’s all about initiative

20 . . . 19 . . . 18 . . . 17 . . .
We played the third session of our Star Wars campaign the other night and I’m really liking this system more and more.  It plays fast and furious, handling the pulp sci-fi action of the movies as well as can be [...]