The Tao of D&D

I had a housewarming party this last weekend, which went very well. A good friend of mine brought me what has to have been a gag gift—him b...

I haven't had many new thoughts lately about D&D; the other parts of my life have intervened. I won't be running until November...

Lately, the task of moving has been eating up much of my time, not to mention the process of packing away books, papers and various other so...

On Saturday, I introduced the element of using cards to represent pieces of equipment into my D&D campaign. This has involved, so far, h...

I know weather isn’t very interesting. I know that writing about it for two posts won’t win me any awards for viewership. And for that I a...

All right, as promised, here goes. I do not apologize for the roughness of these tables; I conceived of this method only about a week and a ...

One of the convenient things about using the earth as a template for a world is that a vast resource of climate data is readily available fo...

Some thoughts on encounters, organized a bit. These are by no means all-inclusive (how could anything be?). But its a start. I've app...

I have had as a policy that every rule I add to the game, those that affect the players directly, must be something that takes virtually no ...

Just had an interesting thought strike me. It's occurred to me in the past that certain injuries, broken bones, snapped tendons, organ ...

When I research areas for my maps, to identify the various kingdoms circa 1650 and how they are mastered, I can't help but stumble into ...

Cliffs overlooking the Hunza Valley in northern Pakistan. Simply incredible.