Campaign longevity hinges on two important aspects of the game; having a DM that provides an interesting and compelling story and players that provide interesting and compelling characters.  This series of articles focus on the latter; building characters that have us wanting to know more about the...

DM:      “From your vantage point you see two trolls cooking something over a fire pit.  Both wear what looks like leather armor and carry large two-handed weapons.  Two cave entrances behind them are dark but you can hear occasional noise coming from inside.  What are you guys doing?” �...

Today is the first day in the past few months that I have been able to sit down at my computer and resume writing for RoleplayingPro.  Without going into details numerous family health issues have not only kept me from contributing articles but have also kept me from the game table.  Fortunately m...

Recently, I was unable to game master for our weekly gaming group. It wasn’t because I couldn’t show up. It wasn’t because we didn’t have enough players. It was because I had a very long week at work, and my wife and I are adjusting to a new addition to the family. Mentally, I wasn’t ...

For the last few weeks my gaming group has been between campaigns. The previous week some of the players suggested that I run a one-shot of either Star Wars D6 or Gamma World. Both of them sounded pretty fun to me. I decided to run Star Wars D6 though because the characters would only take a few ...