I went out for a marathon gaming session last night, and managed to play four games, two of which I’d played before. In the order that I played them:
Settlers of Catan was the first game I played, and it was the second time I had played it. It was fun. I like [...]

Yesterday, I ran a solo session for the one player who wasn’t able to make it to the first session. Now he’s got comparable experience to the others, and he’s actually in Winterhaven, which makes things easier. Anway:
Session Two: The Road to Winterhaven

Last night I had my first 4th Edition D&D game, and I’m still jazzed from it. It was fantastic. I did a lot of initial prep work before the game, probably more than I needed to because most of it hasn’t been used yet. The players approached the initial set of encounters [...]

I ran another proto-4E game yesterday. The adventure was something simple and (I thought) relatively short at only three encounters. It was based loosely on the Rose Quarry section of Shadows of the Last War, with some straight-up monsters, some re-purposed monsters, and one heavily modified and scaled down monster with its description [...]

Yesterday, I ran another proto-4E module; this time, instead of using one that I downloaded from the Internet, I created one myself. And yes, I have observations on that process:
1. Re-purposing monsters is easy. I mean, really easy. On the one hand, monsters are pretty distinct from each other, and each have [...]

Since the D&D Experience hit, EN World has done an admirable job of keeping us all informed of the inner workings of 4th Edition as they are revealed. I won’t re-tread any of that. Instead, I’m going to relate my experiences running a reasonable facsimile of 4th Edition, using the aforementioned rules tidbits [...]

My friend Rich, who was in my Wild Blue playtest this past Saturday, recently posted a comment summing up his feelings on the playtest. I think it’s important that everyone see the player’s side of things rather than just mine, and I realize that not everybody looks at the comments on this blog; so [...]

On Saturday, I got together with my friends Mike and Rich, and Rich’s friend John, and we played some Saga/Wild Blue. All three players were Wardens (a sort of jurisdiction-transcending lawman), and were sent to investigate a series of murders in a tiny village called Tom’s Crossing. Mike played Thor, a hulking berserker [...]

Some of you may recall that, a while ago, I was working on a card game called Skullduggery. Well, it’s still under construction, and I had a playtest session with my friends Tad and Chris on Friday night. It went pretty well. There were some unclear rules and some things that needed [...]

On Saturday, I went to my friend Mike’s house and ran a Wild Blue session with him and my friend Rich. I thought it was awesome. This was the first time that either of them had been introduced to either Gamecraft 2.0 or Wild Blue (aside from what I’ve shared on this website), [...]