photo credit: PopCultureGeek.com One of the tropes I find myself using over and over again in my Dungeons & Dragons campaigns is time travel. I’m sure part of it comes from watching Back to the Future about 5,000 times before I reached the age of 21, but there’s also something inherently interesting about the concept [...]

photo credit: bander.bramblegrub So, for about a year now, I’ve been following the Old School Renaissance movement in gaming. While the movement itself sometimes has a hard time pinning down what they’re all about, as an interested outsider I think I can offer some perspective. In short, Old School Renaissance gaming: Is motivated and inspired [...]

photo credit: mikecogh Some of you folks (especially those on the D&D Facebook page)  just need to relax on the whole edition wars thing. Whine all you want, we’re not going backwards. (And, by “we,” I mean the D&D community.) You know, I appreciate the resistance to 4E. Really, I do. I stuck with AD&D [...]

So, for the past four weeks I’ve been running D&D Encounters at my FLGS (Friendly Local Gaming Store). For those of you who aren’t familiar, feel free to visit the D&D Encounters Website over at WotC. In a nutshell, D&D Encounters is to D&D what Friday Night Magic is to Magic: The Gathering. It’s an [...]