Spring strode into Colorado, got pelted with a few million snowballs, staggered back, then cautiously sneaked back into the state like a rabbit at a… Read More »Conclave of Swashbucklers and Ghost-punchers
(Being the third entry in a series of posts about the exotic and the mundane in world-building.) The problem with an exotic setting is that… Read More »Exotic Exhaustion
Speaking of exotic and mundane settings… When creating a fantastic new world (i.e., one not based on the ball of mud and angst outside my… Read More »Exotic Expectations
In last night’s Dungeons and Dragons game, I left my heart — and my seventh-level Fighter — in Xen’drik. Xen’drik, for the uninitiated, is a… Read More »The Exotic and the Mundane
So many ghosts! So much punching! Tacticon was this weekend, and it was full of gaming goodness! Friday night I ran my first actual session… Read More »Ghosts of Conventions Past
Today I’m playing the part of the fire-fighting lumberjack, swinging from one burning tree to the next, an axe in my belt and a fire… Read More »Come for the Punching, Stay for the Swashbuckling
A wise man once said, “It’s difficult to see the forest when the tree directly in front of you is on fire.” It’s not even… Read More »News From the Smoking Woods
Yes, things have been quiet around this corner of the web the past week or so. But it’s not, I assure you, because I’m moldering… Read More »Not Dead Yet!
When it comes to purely creative endeavors, I’ve got both hands full these days: On the one hand, I’ve been writing up some crazy theories… Read More »The Fractals of Karthador
After Space City Con and Gen Con, you might think I’d be done running games at conventions for a while, but you’d be wrong. Apparently… Read More »Ice Warriors of Tacticon
