Apotheosis of the Invisible City

This may just be me, but I've never considered converting supplements to the system I use from a system I don’t the horrible, barely-pos...

1) You discover a human skeleton, one hand wrapped around a shining spear with a brilliant silver head -- plainly magical -- the other grasp...

"No sweat.  We're the PCs, right?  Of course we got this!" Once upon a time, in a MMORPG in which I spent far too many years, ...

  Running out of names?  Not remotely close. First off, Wikipedia is your friend here, and all you need to do is (for example) pull up a lis...

  “I’d like your help. Your help to make this game fun for everyone. If anything makes anyone uncomfortable in any way… just lift this card ...

Something I've done a whopping lot over the years is pontificate on gaming forums.  While the exchanges summarized below are about metag...

A couple forum threads about courtesy and status of PCs has provoked a bit of thought, which I'd like to share with my avid readers.  ...

I've found this a useful thing, over the years, in giving a quick precis about my campaign, my setting and the system I use.  I think al...

Back in the day (college, and for a few years after) I ran an insane schedule.  There was a time I had four campaigns going at once – thr...

My job, as a GM, isn't to preserve the life of the bad guy. It's to provide the players a fun gaming experience. Take one of the c...

I like reaction rolls for a particular reason, and it's exacerbated by my combat LARP experience. Sitting in the GM's chair, in ...

Hey, sometimes I have short rants!  (No need to use ten paragraphs to say something when two will do!) *  There's a personality probl...

My current party just got out of a jaunt into the mountains, deep in the backcountry ... a semi-lawless area much like Appalachia, with isol...

Every now and then it suits to put your PCs, if it can be managed, into a visceral hissing rage. By way of example: Champions campaign...

One of my weapons is a magnificent book: the Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend . Now I'm a fol...

"I AM dark and evil!  Really!  Fear me!" Forum D00d: " The one problem with D&D's presentation of gods was always...

How far do I go by way of compromise in what I run? Not very. What I run is a Renaissance-tech fantasy world, very loosely based on Ken...

Not as a rule a habitue of gaming stores -- I've gamed out of my home almost exclusively since the mid-80s -- what I see about how oth...

"Gamer ADD" in action. Most of us have run into GMs who’ve asked people to submit a couple biographical pages about their PCs ...