Following on the heels of Sam’s GM screen article, and several of the comments posted thereafter, I began thinking about character death.  I thought about how death impacts the game.  Not just the effect on the player whose character died but also how it affects the story and the other players /...

The use of a game master screen is not something I really even gave a second thought about for the longest time. We have two game masters in my main group. My friend and I swap game mastering positions every couple months. I usually use a game master screen when I run, where as our other game maste...

I will be starting a new campaign in February. I thought back to previous campaigns that I’ve run some good, some bad. A few of them were long-standing with a solid ending, but most of them made it several game sessions before my players and I either moved on to another game or got distracted by ...

As 2009 begins I realize that I am approaching the 27th anniversary of my introduction to role-playing games (I received my first D&D box set for my birthday in ‘82). In retrospect I can see how much of who I am has been shaped by my love for gaming and an unhealthy addition to polyhedral shap...

I am a pretty big fan of any game that is futuristic, cyberpunk, sci-fi, or post-apocalyptic. I don’t know why. I think my brain is just wired a certain way where I can picture those settings more easily than fantasy. So when I see a new game that embodies one, or all, of those settings it usuall...