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How Do You Foster Good Roleplaying?

by Bob

When I was 13 years old, RPGs were all about killing things and taking their stuff. In a lot of ways, back then, D&D was a major precursor to today’s MMORPGs. Sure, we had some storylines back then, but they were usually pretty standard quests. It was mostly “roll” playing, and less “role” playing. That [...]

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Interview with Harrison McLeod of Escaping Reality

by Bob

Harrison McLeod (Harry) is a good friend and colleague, and one half of the Men with Pens team. I had a chance to spend some time talking to Harry about their latest project, a double-whammy initiative including the creative fiction writing site Capturing Fantasy and the game site, Escaping Reality. Tell me a little bit [...]

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What If? On 4E and the Future

by Bob

What if it sucks? Worse… What if I don’t think it sucks, but the rest of my group does? I’ve been asking myself this lately, as I think my good friend Phil has convinced Randy and the rest of our local group that 4E is going to be bad.  REALLY bad.  Aw, hell.  It’s not [...]

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Game Masters Day – Better Late Than Never!

by Bob

I had intended to observe GMs day in much grander fashion than last year, but with Gary leaving us it didn’t seem right. In retrospect, maybe he’d have wanted it that way.  At any rate, my loving wife made a cake on GMs day.  Here it is:

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Will you always play DnD?

by Bob

I want to tell you all about a couple of conversations I’ve had lately.  The first one is an ongoing discussion with my friend Randy.  Randy and I tend to have these big idea discussions about D&D, about our group of friends, and about our lives.  One discussion revolved around whether the people you play [...]

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I. Hate. Slate. So. Much.

by Bob

I take a few days of relaxation in regard to DnD, only to come back and be reminded of Why I hate Slate.com so much. FRACK!  Bastards.  I expected it to happen eventually. I am so pissed off right now I might just spit.  Go over to Slate and tell the jackhole about himself, will [...]

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The 4E Malaise

by Bob

If your gaming group is anything like mine, you can’t stop talking about Fourth Edition. Every blog post or article at WotC, every entry at EnWorld, and every goofy comment (no offense, boys) at Critical Hits and my guys are chatting it up.  It is as if they are a knitting circle that just found [...]

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We Remember Gary – PodCast

by Bob

I was planning on kicking off my latest feature on the DM’s Blog today.  I was going to start publishing a series of PodCasts on 4E.  However, there are two things getting into the way of this:  1.  I’m having a heck of a time getting the podcast software set up correctly, and 2.  The [...]

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For Gary.

by Bob

Tributes around the web: My obit for Gary NY Times Obit CNN Obit news.com.au Obit A LOLcat tribute The Cimmerian:  The Dungeon Master Has Died Tributes at RPGnet forums Troll Lord Games Forum tributes EnWorld Forums Memories and Tributes OOTS Tribute Bruce Cordell on Gygax Critical Hits Tribute  And the one that made me cry: [...]

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Minis Feature – Improving your painting

by Bob

Good Monday, all! Well, I’m still trying to digest all of the 4E info from DDXP.  I’m hoping later in the week to offer some reflections… Also, I’m steadily progressing on the campaign, and think I’m to the point where one to two posts a week should keep me on schedule for GenCon.  Look for [...]

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