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As we get older (and, let's face it, we're all getting older) our lives get more complicated, we move away from the gaming groups we grew up with, and it becomes more and more difficult to play -- especially play with the people we would most like to play with. The natural solution for that...

I'm pretty sure you can't use plasma tvs horizontally, but I could be wrong. That's what I came up with in the research on my TV setup.

I like flipboard for making your own digital magazine, but you're right, it's not perfect. But, really, just about any format other than PDF on a tablet would be an improvement. The challenge is trying to break down our expectations of the highly styled pages. The nice thing about a dedicated...

We've seen a few changes in the TRPG magazine market lately. A few months back, Dragon and Dungeon switched from their daily publication schedule to publishing the entire bundle of content once a month. Then Kobold Quarterly decided to end their long run. Then Gygax magazine kicked off...

Last time we talked about stealing some character setup tools from the Fiasco RPG. That's a great option for when you're starting a campaign, but most of us don't start campaigns more than once a year -- what sort of options could we come up with that would allow us to give our PCs some...

Last week we talked a bit about how creative we can be -- and I made a case for the idea that our ability go give PCs choices in the game is a way of giving them some creative power in the game. So, over the next couple of weeks, I'm going to propose a couple of ideas that give your players...

...checks flights to vegas... ...remembers Wichita is snowed in today... ...pouts...

It's pretty close to what's been suggested already, but I can't get the idea of a whole Chutes-And-Ladders feel for some of the exploration. So, if the Dwarves are trying to excavate something, they probably have a whole network/warren of Medium-sized tunnels snaking around the place. Some...

Well, I don't know about turning them all into Mages. I'm betting there's some middle ground in there. And DMs regularly balance the impartial world view with the adversarial NPC view as they run their game -- are the PCs really less capable of the same sort of complexity? (Just because D&D...

DMMike - We may disagree, but what you're describing doesn't really sound to me like allowing the PCs to be creative -- any more than asking a passenger for directions is the same as letting them drive. All right, the analogy is flawed -- it's very hard to share driving -- but what I'm...

We give ourselves a lot of credit for creativity as GMs and players of tabletop RPGs. We look down our noses at MMO players, so many of them playing with a character build they found on a website dedicated to min-maxing their build, playing through cookie-cutter quest chains and bashing yet...

Absolutely share your progress. IMO, you can get away with about 12 inches for players, but 16 will give them a nice amount of room for books/sheets and dice and drinks. Also, take a look at this link (My friend Arksorn drew my attention to it: http://cyderak.deviantart.com/gallery/)

Kevin -- It looks like it's fairly similar to Obsidian Portal -- a wiki with a lot of custom functionality. Can you evangelize a bit? What are the features that make it so effective for you? What can't you live without now that you have it?

Great tip -- I'll have to check it out. Hadn't heard of that one before! -rg

Cool -- but let me ask you this: do you create on your iPad, or mostly just use the iPad to access you notes and information? I find, personally, that i don't like having the laptop between me and the players. (I don't use a DM Screen, either) so I don't like the computer when we're playing...

I'm also a mostly-mac guy, and it's an issue for me, too. Hero Forge does, however, work on Mac right now, so I hope that Realmworks will (although it may not right away). That's one of the blind spots a lot of development projects have -- Wizards had the same problem with their early efforts...

Thanks for posting the pics, WampusCat43! I've been talking to a local cabinetmaker about having a table built, myself, along the same lines. I had imagined something like cargo straps attached to the underside of the table -- two of them, on either side of the hole for the TV. The TV could be...

Morrus noted a Kickstarter this week -- for Realmworks -- that put me on the scent of thinking about software and tools for campaign management. I've mentioned a few tools in the past, and there have certainly been plenty of other reviews and articles written about this sort of topic in the...

Pics? Love to see your setup. -rg