I've been having fun thinking about Dave Chapman's (aka  +Autocratik  or @autocratik) #RPGaDAY prompts. While I haven't been kee...

Back in 2012, I wrote a blog post discussing how every edition of Dungeons & Dragons had miniature use as a part of its default mechani...

Every now and then I encounter a book that changes the way I think about the world. Sometimes a book has one insight and sometimes it has se...

The new Original Edition D&D Premium Reprint from Wizards of the Coast is truly a wonder to behold, and it gives the buyer a g...

I run D&D Encounters at my Friendly Local Game Store in Burbank, CA once a week in the evening. Because my wife Jody works during the t...

In prior years, the Gen Con presentations by Wizards of the Coast have focused on selling consumers on an upcoming product. The staff of wi...

It's been a dream of mine to make a documentary about role playing games and gamers. Since I was a kid, I have thought that the represen...

I'm a frequent reader, and infrequent commenter, on Zak S's gaming website " Playing D&D with Not Safe for Work ."  Th...

Given that most analog games -- whether role playing games or table top games -- use some form of randomizer in their determination of succe...

Where to begin...where to begin? I have long been a big believer in independent projects and fan supported endeavors, especially in the ho...

Some of the early criticisms of 4th edition Dungeons and Dragons was that the game over-emphasized miniatures play, it felt too much like a ...

I'm as guilty of it as the next gamer.  If you mention that you play F.A.T.A.L. or one of a small list of games, I will roll my eyes de...

When I was around 11 or 12 years old, my best friend Sean McPhail and I used to play a fair amount of D&D.  Our first foray into the hob...

Last year, I posted about the various rpg mechanics for representing the effects of armor in combat .  I often hear from some corners of th...