The Tao of D&D

The next step in addressing practical  advice for DMing would be to tell the reader, "Do you due diligence; read, research, study the m...

"The DM, without telling anything like a story, describes   a set of circumstances that the players see in the immediate here and now, ...

Nigel in Hamburg writes, We’re playing a small group with two monks, both with high (16+) Dex, with pretty much unchanged 1st Ed PHB rules f...

The last post notwithstanding, players are going to fail to invent an adventure of their own more than half the time.  After all, they don...

Having demonstrated that it works, especially as I'm in a light conversation on the side as I write this, I'm ready to post here tha...

In the film Mr. & Mrs. Smith , the latter character delivers the line, "Happy endings are stories that haven't finished yet....

Role-playing game culture is insidious about muddying the meaning of game play. The past 40+ years have seen a shift in emphasis from purel...

What benefit did I get from rolling up and making literally hundreds of characters in the early 80s, a lot of them for my own use in my own ...

When I wrote How to Run , one subject I was able to dodge was that of becoming a dungeon master. Because I was interested in writing and ...

Sterling in Maine writes , When we spoke face-to-face last summer I attempted to express to you my vision that an ideal RPG setting would re...

"Well, at this point I'm not very interested at being 'a great DM.' Somehow it's enough for me as it is. So now I'm...