Today is my 39th birthday.  Yeah…..   On my birthday each year I like to give a little thought to my goals and objectives for the next year.  This year as I begin the 365 day countdown to 40, I find myself thinking about gaming.   [OK that’s what I think about most of the time but that is n...

All of my players enjoy epic high fantasy but they also enjoy playing heroes that get knocked around a bit.  When describing their idea of a good campaign a word I frequently hear them use is “gritty”.  Adventures that bring the heroes right up to the edge of failure or have them overcoming tr...

The last month or so I’ve been reviewing three different games/systems with the intent of eventually running one of them for my group. They include Savage Worlds, Spycraft v2.0, and Alpha Omega. I have approximately a month or so to prepare for whatever game I run, but I’m still reading through...

This is a guest post from Rebecca Smith at Epic Words. We have to thank Sam of RoleplayingPro.com for inviting us to write an article about our new site, www.EpicWords.com. It’s a site built by gamers, for gamers, that offers a suite of tools to help GMs and Players manage their table-top campai...

The healing surge is a new concept for Dungeons & Dragons.  At its core it represents the character’s pool of internal reserves that may be drawn upon in order to restore hit points.  The conditions by which a character can access these reserves (spend a healing surge) vary but include magic...