Tag Archives: Advice

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 […]

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 […]

The Trouble with One-Shots: A Brief Look at Brief Gaming

January 12, 2015 · by · in D&D, Fantasy, Gaming, Pathfinder, RPGs, Traditional Gaming · Leave a comment

Recently, in celebration of a friend’s birthday, I ran a one-shot Pathfinder adventure. Now, I’ve run one-shot adventures in a lot of systems from Call of Cthulhu to Exalted, but I’ve never really thought about all of the ways that they differ from normal campaigns. For those who don’t know, a “one-shot” refers to a […]