A few weeks ago I blogged about strengthening trust between players in role-playing games, " Trust & Promises in Role-Playing Games". It was inspired by a blog I'd seen on Gnome Stew on the same topic. Well, the Gnomes wrote a sequel to their blog, "Earning Their Trust: The Rules" and it has inspired me to write on the topic again ( Read more... )

One of the blogs I read about Role-Playing Games (RPGs) such as Dungeons & Dragons is Gnome Stew. Recently the authors there posted an article that got me thinking, "Earning Their Trust: Keeping Your Promises". The article discusses different types of promises made by the GM in setting up a game, including those which are typically made "Out loud" ( Read more... )

Last Sunday we drove from my sister's house to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin to visit the Dungeon Hobby Shop Museum. That was the main item on our agenda, though when we arrived around 11:15am it was closed. We temporized by skipping ahead to everything else on our list: seeing Gary Gygax's home and searching for the Gary Gygax Memorial Bench and Memorial ( Read more... )

Just knowing that there was a Dungeon Hobby Shop Museum, dedicated to the history of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin was enough to justify an easy afternoon trip out there from my sister's house 45 minutes away. But wait, there was more! In addition to, well, the lake, there was also the house Gary Gygax lived in and not one but ( Read more... )

On Sunday we drove out to the bucolic small town of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, about 45 minutes from my sister's house. Our plan for the day was to see things related to the history of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) and role-playing games (RPGs) in general ( Read more... )

We'd been casting around quite a bit for things to do on Sunday while visiting my sister and her family in southern Wisconsin. We mulled ideas from driving to the Wisconsin Dells for the day, to driving/riding the train to Chicago, to visiting Six Flags, to spending time at Lake Michigan, to going to a zoo. Then late Saturday evening as we were ( Read more... )

As I've written a few times now, wy City of the Dead D&D game sort-of wrapped on Friday night. The final piece of the evening's session, our 8th play session, was the PCs entering a fallen temple in Graymount to retrieve the dead body of an allied cleric.


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The swarm of undead creatures pouring forth from darkened doorways and alleys in the City of the Dead wasn't the totality of the ambush, it was just part of it. Several worgs- creatures like wolves but bigger, stronger, smarter, and evil- bounded in to join the fray. ...Though not as many this time as a few weeks earlier, because the PCs had killed ( Read more... )

In Session 8 of my City of the Dead D&D game, possibly the last session, the PCs returned the cursed ruins of Graymount. This time they weren't coming to explore, they were coming with a plan of attack. You could say they... had a bone to pick.


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Friday night we played session 8 of my City of the Dead D&D game. Eight sessions, on a plan of 5 originally, and finally we're done! ...Mostly. 😅


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