September 20, 2026
My family D&D game forced a reconsideration of my usual GM-ing style. I’m mostly an improv GM, and that style of GM-ing is supported by the kinds of games I design but also in the games I usually run. D&D Read more…
September 7, 2026
The campaign I am calling “Paper Chasers” has the PCs as ‘retrieval experts,’ who are hunting down ancient texts and artifacts for the archmage Silence Frost. The players requested an episodic game with minimal overarching plot and a dash of Read more…
August 29, 2026
The first step of the family D&D 5E campaign started with a terrified village and a missing child, leading to their first “dungeon” and the first glimpse of the threat that would be the focus of the campaign. Homebrew is Read more…
August 22, 2026
The second D&D game I’m going to be running is for three friends—including the best man from my wedding and his wife—who have been my core virtual gaming group since the pandemic. It started as a way to introduce RPGs—a Read more…
August 18, 2026
Homebrew is going to encompass posts relating to my own gaming rather than gaming products—which will be posted over on the SEP website. So, let me tell you about the game I’m running for family. Along with my playtest for Read more…
November 24, 2013
I’m main-lining Community right now, and I’m up to the episode “Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.” Being a role-player – as in someone who plays role-playing games, such as Dungeons & Dragons, rather than some other possible meaning for that term Read more…
August 21, 2013
Having read the latest version of the D&D Next Playtest rules, I’m not a happy camper. Skills are missing. Specialties are missing. These are two of the aspects I loved. I loved the front-loading of complexities and the ability to Read more…
August 19, 2013
And so I’ve returned from Gen Con. I had a great time travelling with Chris Bullock (settings editor on Centurion), Chris Groff (mechanics editor on Centurion), and Rob Wakefield (graphic designer for Centurion). The flight back wasn’t too much fun, Read more…
February 10, 2013
At Game Summit in Gatineau last weekend, I DMed a game of D&D Next. It is the latest iteration of the rules which included the Barbarian and Monk classes. The game turned out great. The players were brighter and more Read more…