Ever tried to incorporate music into your gaming sessions? I have with mixed results…

People for years have been struggling with the content of role-playing games. On the one hand there are so many rules that learning even a fraction of them takes an effort that the casual gamer is not likely to put forth. On the other hand, gamers yearn for simplistic, elegant rules that allow the player [...]

…and the Tiefling says, “Hey! We’re all in 4th edition!”

After looking at the Top 10 BGG Games last week, I’m going to wait a week before going down to the next slice: 11–20…

I’ve been working on a game design with Random that has a science-fiction theme – it’s about planetary colonization. As part of the process of finding the mindset and feeling the theme, I’ve [...]

Since Alignment is always good for discussion let’s have some of those…

Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Shopping to all.

Which is really MetalJim’s review of a little something called Portal …

Let’s take a look at what are currently considered the best of the best games at Board Game Geek. What I would really love (does it exist? can it be done?) to see would be some sort of historical tool that could collect snapshots of the BGG rankings over time and let you see how [...]

Some great Shadowrun posters this week.

All my favorite heroes have excellent Constitution scores. So do most of my characters. Coincidence?

Because MetalJim is a sucker for a book with a title like Dungeons and Dragons Rules Compendium …

Last month, Random weighed in on the perceived cultural divide of Nerds versus Jocks. While I’ve always thought that while there was some merit to the argument, it’s occurred to me the whole issue is implicitly based upon, in my opinion, an urban or suburban setting. My personal experience has been that such roles are [...]

This week: Focusing on Bluff!

In which MetalJim asks how you like your ASCII dungeon crawling games…

With all those monsters last week we need some heroes this week.

You know what grinds my gears? Players who don’t know what the heck they are doing. Rant mode on…

MetalJim brought up some interesting points in his post about generic deities. I’m quite surprised that there aren’t generic classes yet! Here’s a possible direction that 4th edition could take based on what I’ve seen happen in d20 Modern and the Star Wars systems.