Think About It: Putting the RPG Back In MMOs
A little less ranty this time. Somewhere along the line, the term massive multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG) became, simply massive multiplayer online (MMO). Kids who grew up on World of...
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Don’t Call It A Comeback
We finally got the Dungeons & Dragons game off the ground. Yee haw! We had a bit of a slow start which pretty much centered around scheduling. When you hear adults speak wistfully of wanting to...
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Our Fantasy (Stomping) Grounds: A vTabletop Update
A while back, I had switched gears and had posted a short overview of several virtual tabletop software solutions for tabletop gamers who wanted to play, but who didn’t have local people to play with...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing Your Imagination #D&D
Here’s a new one: Dungeons and Dragons, Fifth Edition. Here’s one better: Wizards of the Coast wants you to help design it. According to the NYT article, conjecture is that the D&D franchise has...
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The Shadowfell Cometh–A Post-Mortem
Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition is either something you love, or something you hate, from what I gather from my travels on the Internet. Purists think it’s “too MMOish”; new players appreciate the...
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The Practical DM: Getting Organized #RPG #DnD
It’s been many, many years since I’ve DM’d with any regularity, and since it seemed that our recent foray back into the dungeons went well enough for the players to demand another round, I’ve opted to...
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The Practical DM: Masterplan
A while back I put out a call soliciting feedback from DM’s regarding how they went about organizing their campaigns. It seemed that a lot of folks use non-RPG specific tools like Google Docs or keep...
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The Practical DM: Wizards’ Virtual Table Lives On
Virtual tabletops have only recently become big news, with two new players taking the field as Tabletop Forge and Roll20. They’re actually the latest offerings in a rather underground movement to...
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The Practical DM – Resource Repository
One of the “heavy lifting” chores of creating an adventure is the population of the story. It’s not so much an issue if the adventure is strictly a dungeon crawl; there might be a few personalities...
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The Practical DM – Drama-Bomb The Synopsis
Just as I had posted yesterday, filling out the “non-technical” aspects of a campaign can sometimes be more difficult than dealing with the technical aspects. It’s relatively easy to put together an...
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