Monte Cook just did an interesting post on his blog. I must say that I do agree with this position. When it comes to board games, stories are great, but it’s the gameplay that’s the real clincher. I’m a big fan of games with themes, and I sometimes make my decisions based, [...]

This Treasure Tables post puts me in mind of a session I ran way back when. I think it might have actually been the first 3rd Edition session I ever ran. It was a somewhat short-lived solo campaign, myself in the DM’s seat and my friend Mike playing a human fighter, accompanied by [...]

I love craft stores, like A.C. Moore or Michael’s. I went into one today, and came out with three pounds of colored glass beads for use as counters, as well as 36 1-inch ‘coins’, which I’m going to tape pictures to for use as cheapass miniatures replacements. Total cost: less than $8. [...]

I got a chance to play the Wii, first two weeks ago and then again last weekend. Below are some of my thoughts, in no particular order.

This console is just plain fun. We must have played Wii Sports for four or five hours, and Super Monkey Ball for the rest of that time.

My [...]

After having participated in NaNoWriMo (and after having thought about it for a couple of days), I have a few thoughts. First: it really wasn’t as difficult as I thought it would be. I made it my goal to try to write about 2000 words per day (a goal that I sometimes kept [...]

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I’ve been having strong feelings of ambivalence toward Apple for a little while now. Not too long ago, I went out and picked up an iPod Nano, which I love. It’s sleek, and seems pretty durable, and it does exactly what I want it to do. What I didn’t realize when [...]

Generally, I’m a big fan of Mike Mearls. After all, this is the guy who designed Iron Heroes, which is probably my favorite example of the d20 System to date. However, I don’t particularly agree with this. The whole post not only seems both preachy and whiny, but ultimately an exercize in [...]

I subscribed to both Dungeon and Dragon for a while (and, thruthfully, I’d like to subscribe again but don’t have the funds), and I enjoyed them both immensely. There was a lot of stuff in them that seemed really usable; the problem was that I never really used any of it. Once I’d [...]

Some friends of mine came over last night to play some games. We played a four-way game of Munchkin for the first hour or so, and it has to have been my favorite game of Munchkin ever. It was pretty close toward the end, and ended with a two-way tie (me and a [...]

Today, I received my first review copy of a game. TableStar Games sent me a copy of HeroCard: Galaxy, as well as the Crab and EGG expansions. This isn’t intended to be a full review as, to date, I’ve only played the card-battle version of the game once. I’ll give you some [...]