Category Advice

Don’t Let November Win: A NaNoWriMo Reflection and Strategy Guide

December 5, 2016 · by · in Advice, Discussion, Fantasy, Non-Gaming, Story, Writing · Leave a comment

This year I won National Novel Writing Month for the first time, in what was my second year of participating.   My first year I washed out after about 11,000 words, and every other novel writing attempt I’ve made has died out within the first few pages (and that’s being generous).  Still, this year I cranked […]

Playing with a First Time GM

January 2, 2016 · by · in Advice, Game Master, Gaming, Role Playing, Role Playing Games, RPG, RPGs, Traditional Game, Traditional Gaming, Uncategorized · Leave a comment

When it’s your first time running a game, you’re very likely to have no idea what the hell you’re doing.  Everything looks different from the other side of the screen, and there are a lot of things to worry about that used to be someone else’s problem.  I’ve talked before about ways a fresh GM […]

Saving the Game from Party Imbalance

July 8, 2015 · by · in Advice, Humor, RPGs · Leave a comment

We have all faced this beast before.  The heroes line up to go on their adventure and everyone is proud of the hero that they’ve built.  Bill has built a character with a lot of cool tricks, Mike is excited because he’s going to be an awesome ninja, and then there’s Frank.  Frank has built […]

Advice to Young Heroes: Getting into Tabletop Gaming

April 29, 2015 · by · in Advice, Gaming, Traditional Gaming · 1 Comment

Those of us who have been in the tabletop gaming hobby for a long time are likely to forget the time that we spent as fresh-faced rookies.  This means that sometimes when we end up recruiting new players into the hobby we find ourselves skipping important steps or forgetting that they don’t have our existing […]