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 […]
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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 […]
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Mice and Mystics
For my birthday, my parents gave me Mice and Mystics. It’s a role-playing-game-in-a-box where several adventurers have been turned into mice to escape the wrath of the evil Venestra. You battle against roaches and rats instead of owlbears and manticores. Unforunately the next-to-last tile had a tough encounter and we couldn’t keep our mice from being captured. […]
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 […]
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Stupid Twitter Tricks
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 […]
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Music for Tabletop Gaming
A wonderful thing you can do to enhance the gaming experience is to play music appropriate for the game’s setting. This is true of both board games and role playing games! Matt Mercer, the dungeon master for Geek and Sundry’s twitch show Critical Role uses a masterful selection of music to set their environments and situations. Critical […]
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Spellcaster
In our primary roleplaying campaign I’ve been DMing. But in addition to our standing game, Amber has decided to start DMing some one-off games every once and a while. Instead of the same party of adventurers travelling together through thick and thin, in these one-offs the party will be made up of any folks who can play that […]
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Note-passing in Titansgrave
When you’re in a role-playing game, sometimes characters have more knowledge or perception of their whereabouts than the other members of their party. A good way for a dungeon master to give this information to the player is by passing notes. In Titansgrave, we’ve seen this happen a couple times. Most recently in chapter 5, “Staff […]
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