Recently I ran a contest to get feedback from the roleplaying blog community about RoleplayingPro. The prize is that I will post one 125×125 banner advertisement on RoleplayingPro to the winner’s blog during the entire month of April. The contestants answered four questions that I asked abo...

Welcome back to Experience Points, the column that follows my weekly Dungeons & Dragons campaign Dark Legacy and discusses the ups and downs of life behind the DM’s screen.  First a little background.    We began this campaign in earnest this past July.  The setting for the campaign is a ...

Chances are if you’ve roleplayed a little bit, you’ve had your fair share of bad game sessions that you’ve played in or ran as a game master. The question is, what did you do about it? How do you bounce back from a bad game session with a good one? Identify What Made The Game Session Bad Ju...

Welcome to the first installment of my new column Experience Points.  This series of articles will focus on the trials and tribulations of running a Dungeons & Dragons campaign using my Friday night game, Dark Legacy as an example.  I won’t be writing this column in the “campaign journal�...

Whenever I start a new campaign I like to kick things off with a bang.  I’ve always felt that a great campaign needs to have a great start.  The starting session of any new campaign needs to accomplish several things right away.  It should grab the players’ attention, invoke a sense of curios...