Category Traditional Gaming
Breaking Down the Monstrous Water Races in D&D
The original idea for this article was to examine the different evil races, which I will probably still do, but I noticed that the Monster Manual has quite a few water-dwelling evil humanoids. A lot of them sort of blur together for me so I wanted to do a breakdown of each evil fishperson and […]
Kickstarter Spotlight: Blueshift
I am a huge fan of 4x strategy games and it is exceptionally rare to see this genre represented well in board games. Sure, there are a lot of good strategy games out there, Catan comes to mind most readily, but for a game to capture all four of the X’s well is exceptionally rare. […]
Heroes in the Darkness: A Look at Roleplaying Horror Adventures
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 […]
Game Master Toolkit: When There’s No Time to Plan
Game Mastery is hard. It takes preparation and planning. It comes with that whole added stress of trying to avoid creating a plot hole because you forgot something from three sessions ago and your players have memories like supercomputers all of a sudden. Because of this, it’s much easier to take short cuts when you […]
RPG Inquiry: Legion
Alright, I want to shift gears for a bit. I’ve spent a lot of time talking about the video games that I played at MomoCON, and there’s still at least one more to talk about, but today I want to take the time to talk about one of the tabletop games that I demo’d as […]
Tabletop Tales: An Origin Story
I often talk and act like an expert on this whole gaming thing. I’ve got some pretty strong opinions and I believe that on the whole I’ve earned the right to have them and defend them with the full force of my intellect and sarcasm. With that said, I think it’s important to take some […]
Superheroes in Roleplaying
With the new “Avengers” movie in theaters, I thought it would be cool to talk about how superheroes translate into tabletop RPGs. Now, there’s actually a pretty long list of pen and paper RPGs that are intended to run superhero themed games: Wild Talents, Godlike, Mutants and Masterminds, Silver Age Sentinels, and a few licensed […]
The Game Detective 