I don’t know why, but one of the biggest questions I often ask myself is, can anyone stand up to the 800-lb gorilla of the roleplaying world, Dungeons & Dragons? D&D has decades of history, name recognition, a popular system, a huge corporation backing it, the lion’s share of the marke...

Ideas are the root of creation. –Ernest Dimnet   One of the things I’ve incorporated into my current Dungeons & Dragons game is the use of a campaign theme.  A theme is the underlying motif played out across the various aspects of the campaign.  The theme itself can manifest in a vari...

So it has been approximately two months since pretty much every blog on the planet compiled their yearly “Goals for 2009” List. For most bloggers, the next time they’ll review those goals is next year when they create a new list that they won’t plan on following through with that one eithe...

When I first created this blog, I wanted to talk about my two favorite hobbies, roleplaying games and video games. Shortly after the blog’s inception though, I felt both of the topics were just too much ground for me to cover alone. So I tightened the blog up, cut out all of the video game post...

              Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.                                                                                  — Mark Twain     As both a playe...