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Lego My Ego
Everyone has an ego, and behind the DM's screen, one's ego can manifest in many different ways. It's not a monster to be slain, but more like a beast to be tamed. Read Lego My Ego on D&D Insider here!
So What Do Ye Do for a Living?
What do I do for a living? Well, I used to be an adventurer, but then I took an arrow to the knee...
Review of Combat in Motion (Enhanced 4E) by Christopher F. Ash
The author's blatant rip-off of WotC's 4E trade dress turns me off right there. I know you "shouldn't judge a book by it's cover", but it's a sign of lazy production, lack of creativity, and lack of understanding of what's okay and not okay when using other's work.
All Lemonade Is Local
There exists in this world a designer who is very famous for making a very poor lemon squeezer. In 1990, Philippe Starck made a product resembling the unholy love-child of a sci-fi weapon, a squid, and a half-deflated balloon. He called it the juicy salif, and he was hailed as a design genius for making this completely non-functional item. By any criteria, the juicy salif is a poorly...
Pretty Darn Fun (A look at new PDFs)
It is truly amazing the variety and scope that can be found in the PDF market. This week we meander between supplements for player characters, DM resources, setting books, history lessons, old rule sets, adventures and new rule systems. In addition, we run the gamut from science-fiction, near future, a mash-up of western/horror and standard fantasy. Some may say there is a PDF for every rpg...
Experience Point: Level Appropriate Challenges
I had to go to the doctor today. Nothing major but I'm having a slight pinched nerve in my neck that is radiating a little pain into my arm. It sucks a little. But then I started to look at my resources and it didn't seem quite as bad. First of all I've got a pretty great doctor. She immediately spotted the fact that using steroids (often prescribed in such situations for their...
BATTLE OF THE BARDS - Heat 4!
In case anyone is wondering, my tune "Pistolero" is specifically a Pathfinder song. It's all about the Gunslinger class. Whee! 
Dealing with High Level PCs
Conventional methods of adventure design often don’t work so well with high level characters. Because of the mouse-hitting-the-switch-for-more-food-effect, PCs at higher levels tend to be way overpowered. The average high level character has at least a half dozen powerful abilities, and magic items. So, instead of throwing more orcs at them, here are some strategies to stop your overpowered...
Gamehackery Christmas List
Just time for your Cyber Monday shopping, here are some gift ideas for the DM or player on your list. I'm going to try to avoid ideas that will be covered on other lists -- which does not mean that I think giving a gamer a copy of Dungeon Command is a bad idea, just that I think others have it covered pretty well. We'll focus on gadgets, technology, and anything hack-ish. Livescribe pen...
Playing God #4 - Putting it Together
Alright, after the last exercise our playstyle is known. What do we do with that knowledge? This is where we go shopping for systems. Choice of system is really vast today, compared to past times. Everything from Champions, one of the most detailed point based games to WuShu a very slim fast moving game. The first thing is the choice of system itself. Is there an overwhelming leaning in a...
Review of Way of the Wicked (Book Two: Call Forth Darkness) by Fire Mountain Games
Thanks for the review. I'm glad you enjoyed the book! Gary McBride Fire Mountain Games
Experience Point: New Faces = Great Ideas
My gaming group is what you might call “stable”. Our “new guy” has been gaming with us for 18 years. My best friend is somebody whom I’ve been playing RPG’s with for 30 years. Some might say we go beyond “stable” and verge on “stagnant”. That could very easily have been true were it not for some of us venturing out of the group and returning with fresh ideas. The best places to go get...
3G: Growing Up Cali, the Great Smokey Mountains, and Greenwich Mean Time
In 2002, some WizOs and wizards.com patrons got together to start a D&D campaign. Ergeheilalt, Tisca, and myself agreed to DM the campaign in a round-robin format, trading off between adventures, or if real life interfered with game preparation. Ergeheilalt set the game in his homebrew world of Thimtona, everyone rolled up 1<sup>st</sup> level characters, and away we went. Choices for...
Pretty Darn Fun (A look at new PDFs)
This week we are adding a new section to the column; you can see it near the end of the article. RPGs and PDFs sometimes run in themes; the first three publications are all inter-related, but different from each other. It’s fairly fascinating how the history in our rpg community can come together at times and these three highlight it. Actually, quite a few of the selections for the week...
