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Michael Tresca

Mike "Talien" Tresca is a freelance game columnist, author, communicator, and a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to http://amazon.com. If you like what we do here at EN World (the Forums, Columns, News, etc.) and would like to help support us to bring you MORE please consider supporting our Patreon. Even a single dollar helps!

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When RPGs Meet SCP

Nov 12

The SCP Foundation is a fictional secret organization created through a wiki-based collaborative writing project. It's also a treasure trove of ideas for role-playing games.

Game Wizards: An In-Depth Review

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Oct 25

Continuing our countdown, these monsters have strayed far from the cute and kid-friendly into body horror, torture, and undeath.

Return to Oz: Top Ten Creepiest Monsters (#10-#6)

Oct 22

Oz has been associated with kid literature since its debut, but there's a darker side. These creatures are proof that nobody should be alone in the woods at night in Oz.

Return to Oz: When Wizards Go to War

Oct 11

Traditional medieval tactics involving overwhelming numbers are no guarantee of success. It's true in Oz and thanks to high level spellcasters, true in D&D too.

Return to Oz: Taking Down the Big Good

Oct 04

There's a high-level, all-powerful favorite NPC in every campaign and in Oz, that's Ozma. What's a bad guy to do?

Return to Oz: WMDs (Wishes of Mass Destruction)

Oct 01

In Oz, like in high level Dungeons & Dragons campaigns, wishes are everywhere. How do you manage access to these wishes without it spiraling out of control?

Return to Oz: A Thousand Ways to (Not) Die

Sep 24

In Oz, there are many ways to die and far more ways to not die but suffer for eternity. For tabletop role-playing games, it's a great example of how a campaign can deal with characters who never...

Return to Oz: Who Comes from Where?

Sep 13

Creating domains that are easy for characters to plug into is a great world-building exercise for players and game masters alike.

Return to Oz: Ozbusting Assumptions

Sep 07

In the previous article we talked about the possibilities of using L. Frank Baum's Oz as a replacement for the Feywild. But there are a few misconceptions DMs will want to address before they do.

Return to Oz: Defining the Universe

Sep 03

I've written before about the world of Oz as created by Lyman Frank Baum. The setting has several appealing aspects for campaign building, including the fact that it's a well-known universe, much...

Carrying Dice (With Help)

Aug 27

I have dozens of dice sets and I suspect I'm not alone. But where to put it all?

Mapping It All Out (With Help)

Aug 16

My recent D&D session at Boy Scout camp forced me to make some hard choices about what maps I could realistically bring with me. So which maps work best?

Making it All Up (With Help)

Aug 09

Random generators can be used to generate campaign ideas, from scenario-starters to sandbox campaigns. But how much randomness do you really need?

Camping and D&D: Actual Play

Aug 02

In the last article I explained how I (over)prepared for a week-long adventure with my Boy Scout troop. Now it was time to play. Things didn't work out the way I anticipated.

Camping and D&D: Preparing for the Trip

Jul 26

I've been recently named Scoutmaster of my Boy Scout troop, so I thought it'd be a good opportunity to introduce Dungeons & Dragons to my younger Scouts during camp downtime. But first, I had to...

Kids Arcanum’s Crafty Quest Box: A Review

Jul 23

I’ve known the creator of Kids Arcanum since before the company’s inception, so when Mike Best released a Kickstarter to introduce kids to role-playing, I jumped at the opportunity to back the...

NeverEnding: Beta Review

Jul 12

Last week I interviewed the founder of the online role-playing game character platform NeverEnding, Jamie Van Doren. But how does it work in practice?