As a GM, how many times have your well-laid plans gone awry from a die roll? Me? Too many. Here are a few Rules on how to exert your over-arching authority, without losing any r-e-s-p-e-c-t.  First, start off your campaign by explaining your intentions. “Hey guys, before we start this campai...

In this past year I’ve had the pleasure of being in two different gaming groups at the same time. Both groups are pretty different with regard to play style, but both share a common theme. At some point or another, everyone displayed one or more traits of the Creative Roleplayer (and you only need...

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...