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Once a year Automattic gathers all its employees together for a week of projects, learning, and adventure at an event called the Grand Meetup. This year I wrote a D&D adventure to share with my friends and co-workers, most of whom had never played a tabletop RPG before. It’s now been run…
This is the fifth and final post in a series called “To Switch or Not To Switch” about whether or not my gaming group should switch to Dungeons and Dragons, 5th Edition, or stay with Pathfinder. Our gaming group discussed the switch a couple weeks ago. It didn’t take long to realize that some folks were excited […]
This is Part 4 in a series called “To Switch or Not To Switch” about whether or not my gaming group should switch to Dungeons and Dragons, 5th Edition, or stay with Pathfinder. Your dungeon master describes the scene. You imagine the environment and characters around you and decide how your character would react or choose […]
This is Part 3 in a series called “To Switch or Not To Switch” about whether or not my gaming group should switch to Dungeons and Dragons, 5th Edition, or stay with Pathfinder. Whichever gaming system we use, I’ve already determined that to be a better DM I’m willing to invest some money into the books […]
This is Part 2 in a series called “To Switch or Not To Switch” about whether or not my gaming group should switch to Dungeons and Dragons, 5th Edition, or stay with Pathfinder. Our gaming group has a varied background when it comes to RPGs. We even enjoy it for different reasons – some are […]
If you start a tweet with the letters DM it makes Twitter send a direct message instead of just tweeting. Very sorry to the twitter user with handle @is who (multiple times) received a direct message from me when I was trying to talking about being a Dungeon Master (DM) in the context of Dungeons […]
This is Part 1 in a series called “To Switch or Not To Switch” about whether or not my gaming group should switch to Dungeons and Dragons, 5th Edition, or stay with Pathfinder. Just started my rpg group on a homebrewed quest in Andoran, part of the Pathfinder universe. I’ve put a lot of thinking into […]
It’s fair to say I underestimated the difficulty of writing campaigns for my Dungeons and Dragons group. Going through a pre-written module was simple enough and it provided a good outline for the sort of information I’d need. Having DM’d that adventure with success, I thought I knew enough about the game to prepare a […]
While preparing for my first romp at Dungeon Mastering, a resource I really appreciated was Episode 12 of Critical Role from Geek and Sundry’s twitch channel. Matt Mercer has been DMing this same group of performers (most of them are voice actors, which makes the characters really awesome) for a long time. Critical Role is […]
As socially inept as I can be, one thing I’ve learned to do as an adult is convince people to come to my house and play games. Here’s a hint: food is key. Normally this consists of board games. Folks ready to come over earlier get to play a couple games [usually] under and hour […]
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