Take a Moment to Stop and Smell the Glue

Not every RPG party is a precision built, totally mechanically cohesive team. Our lives are busy, and a character creation session is time that could be spent actually playing. For gamers with jobs, kids, classes, or commutes it is often more convenient to make your characters and bring them to the first...

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."

My Mom Plays Pathfinder, Everybody Dies

The stranger offered my mom's rogue a job: that evening, an airship would be leaving for the Southern Front with the officer's wages. Did mom want in on a heist? Shit yes she did. But first she pounded back some more pink martinis.

Get Your Friends to Push Your Buttons

An RPG table is a place where fun, originality and conflict come together. If you’re playing for the first time, you've likely never spent 3 hours pretending to be someone else before. Who do you pretend to be?

“Well Actually” is the Death of “Yes, And”

One of the reasons Liz and I started this blog was that we’d had a lot of conversations about why we prefer having fun in RPGs to being right in RPGs. There are some people out there who totally disagree with us. Shadowrun players, I’m looking at you. Get on with your bad selves and have a great...

Risking it All

I spent this morning doing one of my favorite things: Drinking coffee and talking games with some of my favorite people. As we hashed out the ins and outs of the new Marvel RPG, we got to talk about WHY we do things in RPGs. I mean, we all play to stop the bad guy, save the princess, seek great justice, and...