Number of Views :803As a GM, I couldn’t care less about your character. Stop, stop. I don’t want to hear you complaining. It’s true. Ask any GM, and you’ll probably get a similar (though probably not so harsh) response. As a GM (or DM, or Storyteller, or Watcher… whatever) I can’t spend every moment caring [...]
Number of Views :996George Herbert Mead, one of the founders of social psychology, created a concept known as the “Generalized Other”, one of the more popular concepts in the Symbolic Interactionism, a field of sociology. The Generalized Other concept, similar to Freud’s superego theory, states that “where there is a simple succession of one role [...]
Number of Views :942In the most recent Game Informer Magazine, there’s an article that talks about playing video games on Easy Mode. He presents a pretty compelling reason to do so, which I was grateful for, because I’ve always played that way. His argument is that when you’ve got less of a danger of dying, [...]
Number of Views :738Every couple months, RPG companies come out with their latest batch of errata for their games. For those who don’t know what errata is, it’s all the changes they’ve made to the game, since they realized how screwed up some rule was that they didn’t fix in the initial playtesting. As the [...]
Number of Views :4846Wimwick over at Dungeon’s Master.com recently wrote a post called “Dwarves Are the Best Race” in which he (very convincingly) explaned how Dwarves are the very best race to play in D&D 4e. Sir, I challenge you on that point of contention. I say, Humans are the best race! Now, I don’t have [...]
Number of Views :2823Recently, I noticed a trend in gamers to switch up their dice. This would happen for several reasons: simply finding something shiny & new, old dice were rolling badly, or for the reason I am going to speak of below: changing dice with changing characters or games. Many players change their dice [...]
Number of Views :1935I’ve found, as of late, that I simply don’t have time for long encounters. We only have about 2-3 hours a week we’re together, so getting through multiple scenes is essential. There’s no time to spend the whole session whacking away at a pair of wyverns, so I’ve begun ignoring the monster’s [...]
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