Category Traditional Game

Heroes in the Darkness: A Look at Roleplaying Horror Adventures

October 26, 2016 · by · in Dungeon Master, Fantasy, Games, Gaming, Halloween, Horror, Role Playing, Role Playing Games, RPG, RPGs, Story, Tabletop Games, Tabletop Gaming, Traditional Game, Traditional Gaming · Leave a comment

Horror is a genre that’s very easy to do poorly.  Whether we’re talking literature, cinema, or games it’s really easy to screw up being scary because fear is a difficult emotion to effectively manipulate, particularly in an observer.  It can be really difficult, for example, to take advantage of certain primal fears in the mind […]

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 […]

Big Fights Make for Long Nights: The Boss Fight

March 31, 2015 · by · in Analysis, Big Fights, RPGs, Traditional Game · Leave a comment

Note: The cover image of this article was found at the wikimedia commons, which lists the artist. I could not find any more information on the artist to more effectively source him. Last time we did this I talked about marching armies and giant battles but now I’m going to talk about a different kind […]