The Tao of D&D

I've written about contraints before, but they're worth reviewing.  Constraints are arbitrary limitations created to make an activit...

"Stupid" is a game described in Eric Berne's 1964 book, Games People Play , in which "White" plays against "B...

I’d like to let the Gentle Reader in on a little secret, regarding the whole concept of the RPG 201 course and its mid-term. Like Lance Dun...

During my university years, I wrote about 40 essay exams, most of them like the exam I offered.  I don't remember enjoying most of them...

In 2010, I agreed to review a module, Death Frost Doom .  And as someone who has reviewed newspapers and novels for publication, and been pa...

As I remember, most of my first level classes in university started off quite dull.  For example, 1st Year Psychology, course number 201 , w...

As just explained to me by Ozymandias on Facebook, "Session Zero" is a discussion of the player's interests, what are the play...

I scour the internet and youtube continuously for people who will impress me; and when I find such a person, I consume every single thing th...

Continuing with yesterday's post , I'd like to expand some of my points about character, discussing what a character is , as opposed...

Fair's fair ... I can accept that I'm an old grognard and that where it comes to the game of Dungeons and Dragons, I'm conservat...

From my favorite etymology source : win (n.):   Old English winn ,   "labor, toil; strife, conflict; profit, gain," from the sou...

In a conversation I've just had with Maxwell , I equated the DM's game designer problem of creating rules ~ concrete, objective and ...