Category Archives: Fantasy

Those Blundering PCs: Keeping your NPCs alive

Posted on September 15, 2011 by

For this week’s bonus blog, B. Lynn asks: How do you reveal in game NPCs that the players should NOT mess with? This is certainly an important topic, and one that can be handled in a variety of different ways, … Continue reading →

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Combat & Tactics for Cheaters

Posted on September 13, 2011 by

This week we take a closer look at combat and tactics from the roleplaying side of things (as opposed to the technical rule side): Hi again, A thought came to mind recently and I thought I would submit this as … Continue reading →

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Pick up the Pace: Keeping Our Players Enthralled

Posted on September 8, 2011 by

Here’s another question for the Thursday Bonus Blog from our favorite Dungeon Master: How do you increase the pace of a story when it seems to be dragging? -B. Lynn This is unfortunately something that happens more frequently than most … Continue reading →

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Geek Life: Time to Pretend

Posted on August 30, 2011 by

For today’s Ask the Dungeon Master we discuss the psychological peculiarities of geeks: Dungeon Master, Is hoarding a secret problem amongst role playing folk? Also, when do you have enough dice, figurines, books, cards, etc? Zachary P When I first … Continue reading →

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King Conan: He’ll Be Back

Posted on August 23, 2011 by

Today’s question touches a part of my soul that little can, as it’s about one of my favorite films ever: So, obviously, the original “Conan the Barbarian” is probably the greatest sword and sorcery movie ever made. The ending was … Continue reading →

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