The Tao of D&D

The newest work involves the design of a very mundane game setting, a frontier set of farmhouses, with no villages, thorpes or hamlets of an...

Tonight would have been a game night, but it isn't.  Instead, I'll take a swing at writing a post. I was thinking today about the pr...

At the beginning of a running, my players usually arrive ebullient, arms full of food, folders, backpack, dice bags and so on — much more th...

Looking around for something that might raise an eyebrow.  This article is from the self-same Sep 1981 issue of  Heavy Metal . It's fasc...

"The Miracle of the Andes", that's what they called it. Many people come up to me and say, that had they been there they surel...

"However that might be, the mere fresh gale that endured for four days after the first storm then worked up again into a tempest, blowi...

If I were to start a new world today, from scratch, knowing what I know now, and for some reason deciding I didn't want to run the Earth...

[You can read Sunday's post on The Higher Path  here ] [You can read today's post on Authentic Adventures Inc. here ] Recently I...

[You can read today's post on Authentic Adventure's Inc. here ] If you're interested in finding the best details from history...

The ambitious DM may want to add an over-arching narrative based around historical upheavals.  Here it is best to think in terms of the Four...

Let's say for the sake of discussion that as a group of characters, you've decided to settle down near the town of Odda, the example...

After the previous two classes covering game consensus and situated learning , we come now to the existential development of the role-playi...

Amid the crickets, I feel we're ready to start our campaign and bring the players into an adventure.  We should have a structure in mind...

Of course, the first thing that most role-players think when finding rules for practicing medicine without the use of magic is, "why b...

Yesterday, LTW wrote in reply to my description of my recent campaign, "I do love reading the adventures you create. I like to see ...