I’ve said it before, I am the House-Rule King. I’ve taken games and cut them up, chewed them something fierce, and spit out what can only be described as a beautiful amalgamation of house rules, all in an effort to “improve” those games. Just ask my gaming group – th...

The 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�...

I have many opinions, but not necessarily the smarts to keep them to myself. This might be one of those times… My current 4E character is not optimized. He is a “controller” type of class, but is not very good at being a controller. My favorite Shadowrun character was not optimiz...

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...

Recently, 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...