Castles Up Close

I can’t believe I haven’t written about this yet. It’s possible you read this blog and don’t know that I went to Germany in February. Liz and I spent a glorious week touring the castles along the Rhine. It was unreal. Seeing a beautiful land with a dear friend is always a...

Game Turducken: Launching my Pathfinder Campaign

This November, I started playing Magic The Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers on Steam. If you follow me on twitter, you may remember that I referred to this as #eggquest. I had a fun time playing it, and one reason for that was DOTP’s cutscenes including lore from the Magic universe. In one of...

G+ Gaming Maybe?

I also tweet a lot about the games that I'm playing online. The result is that I also get a lot of people asking me about virtual gaming. How do I do it? What advice do I have? LOOK NO FURTHER, PEOPLE OF THE INTERNET.

“I Attack with the Kobold” “You miss.”

So here’s a problem: I still haven’t played D&DNext with Liz.  Hey Liz, remember when we did all that yelling so we could play online together? Let’s reasses our priorities and do that. I had the opportunity to play D&D with some great friends from far away. Daniel and Megan came...

Virtual Play and the D&D Next Playtest

Okay, here's the deal. Virtual play (via Skype and Google Hangout) have, in the last year, become essential to how I play RPGs. From Kobolds Ate My Baby to Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple, I've had a universally stellar experience rolling dice with my friends, unchained by geographic location.

My Mental Cred Check (Part 1)

Okay. I know I'm a geek. I love RPGs. I've been playing them for half of my life and look forward to playing them for all of the remaining years I have left on this planet. And, if heaven is a place, I suspect I'll be rolling dice in the afterlife. But, every time I sit down at the table, I struggle with the trueness of my devotion to RPGs a.k.a. my "cred."