How many things can one do in a round, and how does it change the feel of the game?  I am playing OD&D this week, running through Thracia with the amazing d4 hp magic-user, and...

I just spent a lovely, hectic summer week chasing fulltime after my kids.   They have grown so much, and I wanted to share a small part of their arc, the one where my partner...

They did it.  Out of curiosity or boredom or misplaced trust, they pushed the big red button.  The party gave the MacGuffin to the evil priestess, she summoned her evil god,...

Is talking to your players like playing a game of verbal ping-pong?  Is the table quiet unless you are speaking with one of them?  Do you fill the silence?  Then you may have...

 Is AD&D still alive and well, or an older part of the OSR that is fading in popularity?  This week’s post is an apology: after I wrote “AD&D is too complicated for the OSR” in...

I have been running a weekly 5e campaign through the fun pirate isles sandbox Secrets of the Black Crag (SoBC), by Chance Dudinack.  We are 23 sessions in, and I plan to write...

When my kids were about 2 and 4 years old, a squirrel jumped onto the power transformer by our house.  It did not go well: the squirrel was blown off onto the road, power went...

Here’s a pair of questions I have been pondering: why don’t I make keyed hexcrawls for wilderness travel in my home game, and which published hexcrawls have I liked and why...

As promised, a follow-up post on my house-rules for playing Mausritter with my elementary-age children, derived from negotiating with my kids over four sessions of our ongoing...

Playing role-playing games with my kids has taught me, more than anything else, how to be a better GM. It is incredibly fun when it goes well.  But it can be hard when it does...