The D&D Party

So I bit the bullet. Gonna try being a player tonight. In fifth edition. I've been a bit cynical about 5th edition. I've been on hiatus so long that D&D i...

My favorite module -- maybe the only one I really know well -- is Return to the Tomb of Horrors published for second edition. It's a revisit and an expansio...

Ever play Diplomacy? I played it once. We didn't really finish. I was pretty proud that, as France, I managed to take over England, making that particular ...

My Current Game So, let’s just get one thing straight about how I run RPGs now: I will not, I swear to the Lord above, ever have that party of Black Cloak pl...

So among other things, I’m a writer. And for some reason, I write in the Fantasy genre. Why is that? A mentor of mine said thast we write the books we loved w...

Collaborative Creativity. Did Michelangelo paint the Sistine chapel alone, or did he direct a crew of artists to do the work for him? From my cursory researc...

I was going to open this with some flighty tones about life … you know, the power of nostalgia, or the allure that our childhood loves had. My friends and I w...