Tag: Gary Gygax
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How to beat Gary Gygax
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This post will likely be the first of a few post-mortem reflections on T1: The Village of Hommlet, as my local gaming group just completed our tenth and final session…
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How to not ruin your RPG session
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You know what ruins an RPG session? When the rulebooks get opened up. You know what ruins it the most? When the GM is the one opening the book. While…
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Breathe life into that boring dungeon crawl!
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They call it a dungeon grind. Not a dungeon frolic, a dungeon jaunt, or even a dungeon struggle. It’s a grind. It’s a slog. An encounter-by-encounter, gear-grinding endeavor that makes…
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How gamers can become readers…which they should!
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Reading is an absolute necessity for creators. And that applies to Game Masters and game players as much as it does to any other creative! But if you’re like me,…
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Should game masters threaten player characters?
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It appears that I struck a real chord with Tuesday’s article on player character death. Why did so many GMs and players respond so passionately to my post? Because players sometimes…
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Learning from Gary Gygax: Gaming Variety
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This blog is the second in a series inspired by Michael Witwer’s Empire of Imagination: Gary Gygax and the Birth of DUNGEONS & DRAGONS. You might be surprised to learn…
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Learning from Gary Gygax: Consistency
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Reading is one of the best things any gamer can do. Especially GMs. It’s hard to be creative in output, when you’re not taking in creative input. Every night when…
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Your PCs Need a Mr. Miyagi
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If you’re looking for a new game, you’ve got a problem on your hands. And the problem isn’t scarcity–no, quite the opposite! The number of tabletop games available in 2016…
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Budget-Friendly Nostalgia: Miniatures
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This is the third post in a series on responsible and affordable AD&D shopping. It was one of the scenes with the greatest foreshadowing in “Stranger Things”: when Mike slammed down the…
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The Mad Cleric Needs Your Help!
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This blog is for you. I write and podcast week-in and week-out to benefit your gaming and, thereby, your life. So I want to know how I can help you…
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Satanic Panic
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The topic has come up in almost every Chasing the Dragon podcast we’ve had: Satanic panic. That period in the eighties when good, virtuous mothers and churchgoers were warned against…
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Seeking a Quest in Hommlet
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And we’re off! Session 1 of Chasing the Dragon is on the books. My home group began playing T1 – The Village of Hommlet. As I’ve said about the module…
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Gygax’s AD&D Modules
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So we all know who Gary Gygax was. We know that he wrote the core rulebooks for 1e AD&D. But what about the modules? After all, that’s the goal of…
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CtD Podcast, Episode 5: Character Creation
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Subscribe to the CtD podcast on iTunes! For our fifth episode, I sat down with my brother in Memphis, TN to discuss character creation for AD&D. We hear about both…
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Modules for Learning to DM AD&D
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New DM for AD&D? Want to know where to start? Me too. I’ve never DMed this system, let alone played it. So I may be getting ahead of myself. Regardless,…