The Tao of D&D

At last, I find myself working on D&D. It’s been a very dry three weeks. Oh, I’m not doing any hard core problem solving. I have to buil...

I would write something, but since my accident I've done pretty much no work on D&D. I am, in fact, finding it difficult to concent...

Isaac Asimov wrote an excellent essay some decades ago about the size of living creatures which never left me. The thrust of the essay was ...

I haven’t tried out any of the ideas of the previous post, for though I’ve been thinking about them for some time, apparently it took a grea...

I have had the opportunity of late to think a great deal about hit points—specifically because a diving board causing 4-16 damage recently l...

I broke the quad-tendon attaching the main quad to the patella...that's the very large tendon on the front of your thigh, making it poss...

The appearance of some strange posts on this blog today was the result of something I'm doing on my other blog, Why is Alexis . I was n...

Here is what I have to say about encounter tables. They don’t fucking work. You can spend weeks sorting out the monsters according to the ...

Carl is making some fine arguments with his comments on my last point, and in some ways he’s right. I probably shouldn’t slam others for wh...

I continue to be baffled that some of the blogs I read associated with D&D care a whit who might be the president of a gaming company, ...

Well, I admit that a lot of this will seem like gobbledygook, unless you have a solid grasp of western Siberian topography, but here goes. I...

There is a discussion going around about D&D and fantasy fiction, that the two don't seem to encourage one another. I don't wri...