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Chapter 141, "Abby's Journal", September 14, 1882 Summer 1882 Flying somewhere over Europe That sounds exciting, doesn’t it? Flying over Europe. And yet I’ve seen so much over the last few weeks that flying over Europe is the least of it. Curious how we can become accustomed to the...

Okay, I have been a GM for the last 36 years. Here is my advice. Put the past behind you, ignore it, and move on. You are by your own admission a GM who is having a period of doubt and lack-of-confidence. Carrying yourself with self-confidence is one of the most important characteristic...

I will have to try that one. Big fan of spy stories, but most don't work well for RPG's for reasons already stated (largely individual vs. team play). I played Top Secret back in the late 80's and early 90's and found it clunky. I found that D20 Modern seemed to work pretty well as a game...

It also appears that the author of the article mistakenly believes Kim Mohan to be female.

Interesting read. Many of the comments about the gamers of time are right on. My D&D group was close to 50/50 on genders, which was very unusual for the time (the game's host was female and when players that started out as couples broke up she would ask the girl to stay rather than the guy)...

How do you give uneven rewards and possibly punish one? Do it just like in the movies, have a huge ceremony and give big shiny medals to the humans, but don't give one to the wookie!

Chapter 140, "Neferka's Gift", September 13, 1882, 7:30PM Ruby turned to her grandmother and hugged her. "Nana! I hope you had a a pleasant trip and enjoyed some alone time with James." Then she turned to James. She went to hug him, paused, then actually hugged him though she felt something...

A little of both. Plots don't have to be overly complicated - usually just something that a young kid can relate to. I think we did one from the book about a potential monster under the bed and one of our own about needing to share on the playground.

Kids only, however many parents were there watching. Essentially the Soft Toys are the heroes and hard toys are the villains. Depending upon the specifics of the toy chosen there are special feats (for example - Bears can give Bear Hugs, toys with wings get flight movement).

My wife and I were on staff in the 1990's for two different comic conventions (Total Confusion and ConMan). We ran "Fuzzy Heroes" several times at conventions. I believe that the RPG may currently be out-of-print, but I just checked EBay and saw that they had several reasonably priced copies...

Looks like fun. One RPG that we did with our kids to introduce them to gaming concepts is called "Fuzzy Heroes". I highly recommend it.

The secret - I guess it is in part because myself and the other DM's have never been big on the "surprise" instant death scenario with no warning that it is coming, where everything depends on an unanticipated dice role. Surprises do happen all the time, but they usually get an action round to...

Chapter 139, "Alone Time", September 13, 1882, 4:45PM George had finally found Ruby in the maze of a market place and came up behind her and her companion, George could only assume it was the Ela that he heard of from Queen Neferka that Ruby was with. "And what trouble are you two ladies...

It is with great sadness that I need to announce the passing of the player Baredtgnome, who played Silver Jake Cook. He was very dear friend to me and one of the best individuals who I ever gamed with. I got together with and his wife (who played Minerva) for dinner around a month ago at...

Campaign Synopsis: The characters live on a small continent (around the size of France + Belgium combined) broken into 9 Lordholdings. Every 15 years the Lordholders get together to elect a "King" to resolve disputes between Lordholdings. The story began the year following the election, as the...

A continuous campaign for the most part. Intermixed in there are around a dozen modules from an unrelated campaign that we originally planned to link but that has not happened yet. The game plays on Sunday nights. Early on we played nearly every week, now it averages closer to every-other-week.

Our Dungeons and Dragon campaign started in Spring of 1982 and has been running continuously for the last 35 years! In that time 19 years of character time has gone by, with some second generation playing characters now part of the adventuring team. Last week we played out 1317th Game - the...

Chapter 138, "Beaujoulais Manor", September 14, 1882, 12:15 AM They smell the burnt out sections of the building before they can see it. The carriage turns the courner and they approach the outer gate and wall surrounding the building. They can see that outer wall of the large three-story...

So, TKP ?