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...

The vitality of thought is in adventure.  Ideas won’t keep.  Something must be done about them.  When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it. Alfred North Whitehead   As gamemasters most of us have at least a few ideas for adventures “on the back...

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

As our Dungeons & Dragons campaign winds down, our characters are making many discoveries. After fighting our way to the top of the Tower of Power, a tower designed to channel magical energies for summoning a Dragonborn-Orc hybrid (the players affectionately call a Dorc), we made many discoveri...

In our Friday night game the heroes have found themselves lost in the Shadowfell.  After a harrowing skills challenge in the haunted Dreadwood they finally managed to find relative safety amongst the shadar-kai of the village of Dusk.  Here are a few shots of the props I built and the battle tha...