I am writing a last-minute player advice post, one last signpost on the road to player greatness. You want to be a great player? You should write a 30-page backstory.  I hear...

I made an advice handout for my young players, who are all interested in becoming DMs.  Many players get their start with the most recent edition of D&D, and I think much great...

The past three Saturdays I have run a fantasy adventure game for five rambunctious kids, ages 9 to 11, one of whom is my son (aka, the Ringleader). Now I hear there is a player...

Been thinking about the quantum ogre. Something that started out as a nuanced point that has evolved into a take-down phrase for railroaded games which negate player choices....

The idea was that I am running an elfgame forest campaign for my young son and his friends, teaching them how to GM.  They find a portal in the city, a la Ultan's Door, that...

I want to talk about my flair tonight1: I had a bad session. I consider myself a journeyman Game Master, one with a lot left to learn about our craft. I have run two longish...

"No man is an island,Entire of itself;Every man is a piece of the continent,A part of the main."--John Donne"Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth."--Archimedes...

 "When you know the fourfoil in all its seasons root and leaf and flower, by sight and scent and seed, then you may learn its true name, knowing its being: which is more than...

 "When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness." --Tecumseh (apocryphal)If the world is a tree, its roots are legends. We cannot see them, but the sap...

 "I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes."--Psalm 82Folk here talk to things, and...