I’m sitting here chatting on Ventrilo with a friend, an eighteen year old from Alabama who is just raving over his gaming group.  He’s got some good stories – fun stories – and it’s making me wish I had a good group of roleplayers around this area.  And we might, too!  Her Most Incredibleness’ brother-in-law [...]

One of the things Her Most Incredibleness and I have been doing pretty much since we married (nearly six years now!) is making games.  We’ve designed some pretty fun board games, and some additions to tabletop role playing games, as well as a couple card games and some that rely on dice.  It’s pretty challenging [...]

I’ve been a gamer most of my life. It started when I was young, with card games like Go Fish and Old Maid, and worked its way into Monopoly and Aggrevation. Somewhere around fourth grade I was introduced to role-playing games with Dungeons & Dragons and Star Frontiers. I especially enjoyed the [...]

Very soon, I will be hosting a game of Dungeons & Dragons for a few friends. Rather than the group of us gathering around the table to roll dice and make poorly-remembered references to The Princess Bride and Monty Python’s Search for the Holy Grail, we’re trying something new – a new paradigm for [...]

I live sixteen miles from one of Amazon.com’s largest warehouses, which is located in the old Western Publishing building in Coffeyville, Kansas. Sixteen miles away from one of the largest repositories of books (and other nifty stuff) in the world. Sixteen miles from the order I made earlier this month.
They held my order, [...]

I was talking with Dax about the D&D campaign I’ve been running almost weekly for the last few months. Out of sheer curiosity, I asked what it was he wanted out of the campaign.
He could have answered anything from “a deep, meaningful roleplaying experience” or “a campaign of tactics and strategy” to “hack and [...]