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Do you have some tips and tricks you’d like to share with other Game Masters? Would you like others to chuckle along with your favorite gaming story? To you want to share a way in which gaming changed...
View ArticleOne on One With…Shawn!
Shawn Ervin has been a game master for a very long time–nearly three decades–and is proficient in a great number of games and styles. He and some mutual friends of mine used to get together fairly...
View ArticleMy Current Campaigns
I’m currently working on three, pretty different campaigns: Serenity RPG The Dresden Files RPG Pathfinder RPG The Serenity campaign is in its final “episode” of the season. The Pathfinder game is what...
View ArticleState of the Project
So, as of right now I’ve had only 60 respondents to my online survey. I’ve also conducted a paltry 6 interviews (one of them being with myself). So it is safe to say that this project has stalled. I...
View ArticleReview: Of Dice and Men by David Ewalt
Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Play It by David Ewalt (9781451640526): Scribner (2013) Of Dice and Men is essentially three-books-in-one. It is a history of...
View ArticleOne-on-One With…Wendy!
Today we get to hear from Wendy Kuehr-McLaren, a self-described “slacker housewife” who is not your typical gamer. Give me a brief bio of yourself. Where are you from? What do you do for a living? How...
View ArticleA Dispatch from the War on D&D
I came across this article the other day and re-posted it on my Tumblr site. It’s a great look back to the “bad old days” in the early 1980s when the “D&D is Demonic” fervor was at its height. If...
View ArticleA Summer of Dungeons & Dragons
Yesterday, the interwebz were abuzz with the release schedule for the newest iteration of the venerable, and ever popular, Dungeons & Dragons. Wizards of the Coast is launching the new 5th edition...
View ArticleHappy GM’s Day 2015
Today is International GM’s Day! Since 2002, this day has been set aside to commemorate the hard work that your friendly neighborhood game master puts in to make your game the excellent experience that...
View ArticleTools of the Trade: GM Screens
One of the most basic tools of the GM’s trade is the GM (or DM) screen. I’ve used such screens for a variety of games over my twenty years of running campaigns. This article is a great summation of how...
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