The Tao of D&D

I had such a fortuitous event in a campaign the other day, I had to write about it. One of my parties has been climbing steadily into the ...

I wondered how many people reading this blog also have a glance at the other one representing the Online Campaign .  One of the players ther...

How do you manage the death of a player? I don't mean a character, I mean the player themselves; the actual person you used to have si...

From the 10,000 word post : "The exact line between 'what the players ought to know' and 'what the players shouldn't ...

Ah, Adventure.  To venture upon; to expose oneself to danger or risk; to hazard everything for the sake of excitement or gain.  The whole wo...

If you went to school, you should remember enough to know the elements of scientific method:  that one develops a hypothesis; one performs e...

As a classicist, I can assure you that a great deal of interest has been directed towards the steam "engine," or aeolipile , creat...

I am now sixty percent of the way through the Civilization IV tech tree, and things are certainly looking very modern.   To continue this t...

If you're not familiar with my experience system, before reading further I suggest taking a glance here and here . There is a strange...

This is a short rejoiner to last week's chemistry posts .  The solution was suggested by my rather brilliant future son-in-law, who conj...

Last week I had a terrible overworked schedule, followed by four glorious days of long weekend, including one session.  I feel almost resusc...

Raph Koster wrote an excellent post last month on the ease with which a well-designed game can be thoroughly and disastrously ruined throug...