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Oh, My Darling PDF

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Jeff Rients in Jeff’s Gameblog makes a very reasonable proposal in his open letter to Wizards of the Coast concerning the next edition of Dungeons & Dragons.

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Thy Inheritance and Thy Duty

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Families and Heirlooms, written by 1d30, solves the problem of how to pass on the possessions of a deceased character to his or her successor in a way that enriches the setting, invests new characters with a sense of continuity, and takes a bit of the sting out of character death. I particularly like how [...]

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Back to the Web Log…

Thursday, July 28, 2011

I apologize to my (three) readers for the scarcity of articles this summer. My spring momentum seems to have unsprung. After a flurry of activity, June yielded one article, and this is the first article to be posted in July. Yet I am undaunted by this dry spell. As a prelude to resuming my dogged [...]

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Fair Play Is Essential to Role-Playing

Saturday, February 5, 2011

There are two posts in 1d30 on the subject of cheating and GM impartiality in the role-playing hobby that are well worth any gamer’s attention. I think the health of the hobby and industry alike would benefit from a greater emphasis by gamers on playing fairly and honorably. How many role-playing fans have been siphoned [...]

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Television Commercial as Historical Footage

Monday, January 31, 2011

Somehow, despite tweeting this on Twitter and sharing it on Facebook, I neglected to mention in Fudgerylog this link to an original TSR Dungeons & Dragons television commercial that was aired around the time I first became a role-playing gamer. I discovered the link in this article in The RPGrrl’s Blog. Thank you, RPGrrl.

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Wizard of Id Saves

Thursday, December 30, 2010

I don’t know if this is the first time a mainstream comic strip ever made a reference to Dungeons & Dragons either explicitly or implicitly, but this is the first time I can recall ever having noticed it, so without further ado, I direct your attention to the Wizard of Id strip of 3 December [...]

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Scenario-Writing Advice from Sandy Petersen

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Quite serendipitously, I discovered this article at Yog-Sothoth.com, The Lazy Man’s Guide to Constructing a Call of Cthulhu Adventure by Sandy Petersen, the designer of Call of Cthulhu himself. This advice may prove especially useful for this month’s Theme Challenge (q.v.).

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Families That Game Together Level up Together

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Dr. Rotwang documents a first-time gaming experience in My Daughter Just Played Her First D&D Game. ‘Tis priceless.

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Soliloquize Now!

Sunday, February 28, 2010

There is an excellent article at ars ludi on the subject of character development: Character Monologue: Tell Us What It’s Like to Be You. It is a simple little exercise that I think could profoundly improve the role-playing experience.

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