Our weekly group was unable to play this past Friday night.  I’m sure we’re all familiar with the frustration of real life interfering with gaming but sometimes duty calls.  Although D&D will have to wait until next Friday this column still needs a topic for today.  So this week in Experi...

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�...

Last week I ran our first game session of Spycraft v2.0, or second if you count our character creation night the week before. It is the first game my group has played in a while that isn’t D&D 4e or Star Wars Saga Edition. I can honestly say Spycraft v2.0 plays a lot differently than any ot...