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About Samuel Van Der WallMy name is Samuel Van Der Wall. I’m an avid roleplayer who has been gaming since I was a kid. I started with games like Battletech, Shadowrun (1st Edition), Star Wars (d6), and of course, Dungeons & Dragons. I even played a little Magic: The Gathering right when it came out. Over the years I’ve played a lot of different games with quite a few different players and gamemasters. I’ve seen a lot of the more popular roleplaying games evolve over time, and I always seem to have strong opinions about it. That is where the idea for this blog was born. Oh, and don’t think I’m arrogant or conceited with the website title, RoleplayingPro. I just liked the name…
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Can There Be A Perfect Roleplaying Game?"));One of the struggles my gaming groups have gone through ever since I started playing was finding ‘the perfect game’. We always seemed to be in search of a game that has the perfect setting and perfect system for our group. But does such a game exist? Can there be a perfect roleplaying game? I be...Flame This Incoherent RantI encourage both lovers and haters of D&D 4th Edition to read this article… I’ve had a thought rolling around in my head for the last year or so. Our gaming group has mostly been playing in two or three different Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition campaigns. At first, many of us disliked t...Roleplaying Pro 2009 ReviewThe site is now fourteen months old. One year ago I set forth a few things I wanted to do with the blog. These were goals I wanted to accomplish in 2009. Let’s see how we did… Improved Blog Design (No Change) – The overall look of the blog hasn’t changed too much since its inception. I...The Dynamics of Adding a New Player to Your Gaming Gr...We recently added another member to our gaming group of one gamemaster and four players. This fifth player is someone a couple of us have known for a while, but up until recently we didn’t even know he was a gamer. We got to talking and he quickly jumped in on our next session. It looks like h...Group Size OptimizationRecently, I talked about gaming groups and their gaming habits. I’ve also talked about party composition, especially in D&D 4e. Over the last few gaming sessions, our group of four has had a member or two have to bow out during game sessions. Sometimes we had a gamemaster and four pl...
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