Fantasy and ScienCe Fiction Blog

You want me to give everything away? Some of my players read these blogs! There's two ways to answer this: my "next game" being the next time we get together to play and the "next game" being the next adventure campaign I'm going to run. The next time we get together...

I'm not sure what's meant by "a tricky RPG experience." Is it one where the scenario was loaded with puzzles and "gotchas!" that require more player skill than character abilities? It is one where you later found out the GM was a horrible person, but you enjoyed the...

I have no answer for this one. This is not something I've ever experienced as a player. As a GM, I don't feel my "failures" with regards to rolls or whatnot are really failures so much as they are moments for the players to really shine. My only real failures as a GM...

Back when I started, playing D&D meant little more than going through dungeons, killing monsters and taking their stuff. Sure, we played all the standard modules over time, but still, they were little more than choose-your-own killing order. Eventually, we started...

I normally don't go for wild concepts. Sure, I've played a misanthrope halfilng druid, or sex-crazed sharpshooter criminal, but nothing too out there. The wildest concept I've ever had at my table, though? It was when I was running D&D 4E and one player floated an...