The positive: have arrived at North Texas RPG Con.The negative: am fighting off a migraine. Lots of sleep tonight and I should be able to run some Empire of the Petal Throne tomorrow.

Wizards of the Coast recently announced its new “Lair Assault” program: “D&D Lair Assault is a new Wizards Play Network in-store program that pits tactically-minded players against a super challenge where the difference between victory and defeat is dependent upon your game knowledge, ability to adapt, and a little bit of luck. You’ll pit your… Continue reading I’m puzzled – how about you?

I know Jamie Mal might say we’re just in a Silver Age of renewed interest, but what follows is more proof that in the culture wars gaming has won, so to speak (even if it’s 4th Edition that shows up): Roll a D6 from Connor Anderson on Vimeo.

Twenty-two.  That was the number we had for the last Madison Traditional Gaming meetup, running from 10am to 5pm, on Saturday April 16th.  Generally speaking, we’ve averaged somewhere between 8-15 people at previous meetups, but this time things seemed to work just right.  One of the players in my Tuesday night D&D campaign, Nix, ran a… Continue reading 22 Adventurers

From English Russia – what does someone do when they really want historical miniatures?  Well, they make them from plasticine.  Cheap Soviet-era plasticine.  Go check it out.

Adventuring in the Jakallan Underworld at Gary Con The Metamorphosis: Alpha game ended with Alpha, the AI in charge of the station, doing in the entire party because we had decided that the alien menace was, well, too menacing.  I was able to get Jim Ward to sign my character sheet, which was very gracious… Continue reading The Garden of Weeping Snows at Gary Con

Okay, so I went to Gary Con this past weekend.  My trip there was somewhat eventful: I had a tire go flat on my way there, which meant that I missed the morning round of events on Saturday.  However, I was back by Noon to the Lodge at Geneva Ridge, and decided to take a… Continue reading I was caught metagaming by James Ward!

“He’s almost dead!”  (i.e. a PC is somewhere between 0 and -something hit points)“Quick, bind his wounds!”  (i.e. what you do when you have no cleric in the party) One of the things I’ve done in Aldwyr has been to allow for “binding wounds” – this involves post-combat action to bind up physical wounds so… Continue reading Binding Wounds

For just over a year, I’ve been running an OD&D game on a weekly basis.  We’ve moved from one game store to another, gone from just one player to a group of six to nine players, and their characters have advanced to nearly fifth level.  We’ve had several characters die, some in some very dramatic… Continue reading Now It Can Be Told…

Life’s been something of a roller-coaster.  On the plus side: Madison Traditional Gaming has gotten rather successful.  We will be celebrating our one year anniversary in September, with a special Meetup.  There might even be door prizes! My Tuesday Night OD&D game is going well; I have six regular players and that seems to be… Continue reading Pluses and Minuses