Category: Tabletop Gaming

  • Post Mortem – Running The Tomb of Annihilation

    Post Mortem – Running The Tomb of Annihilation

    This is a post mortem about my experience running the 5th edition D&D module Tomb of Annihilation. If you’re a player who may experience this as a campaign, don’t read this post, since it will contain spoilers for the module. If you are a DM who is considering running the module, you might find this…

  • Cooking with Dungeons & Dragons (2)

    Cooking with Dungeons & Dragons (2)

    Following up on my previous adventures, I’m cooking recipes from Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home when my D&D group comes over to play. This month I just cooked one recipe – the first one in the recipe book – Gully Dwarf Stew! Gully Dwarf Stew calls for a lizard, because Gully Dwarves,…

  • Cooking with Dungeons & Dragons

    Cooking with Dungeons & Dragons

    We’ve started a new D&D campaign at home. I’m not the GM this time, which frees me up to do lots of other projects and just play along. Last week I looked on my bookshelf and realized I still had a nicely worn copy of Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home, a this-and-that…

  • Leaving for Origins!

    Tomorrow we’re taking off for the Origins Game Fair in Columbus! How exciting is this: this year I’m going to be DMing a couple of sessions with Rogue Cthulhu! I love playing in their games every year, and this year I’ve finally got the courage to run my own! But you don’t need me to…

  • Tabletop Games I Have Played: D&D Next

    Lately for lack of a home-game proper, I’ve been playing the newest D&D Next playtest with some friends. To get the early stuff out of the way: I like it, generally. I’m running it with the Temple of Elemental Evil that it was released with which is not, strictly, a “proper” new module and relies…

  • A Day of Horror Games at Origins

    So I’m at Origins this week! Great convention, lots of neat people to meet, learn from, new games to try, etc. I feel bad for writing something that’s about to sound like a complaint. It isn’t really. I don’t know what it counts as, exactly. But here goes. Sexual violence trigger warning. Sorry if this…

  • Sad to Say, Your Adventures Have Ended Here

    My primary gaming computer suffered an unexpected melt-down last week. While I scavenge parts to replace it, I must turn back to the consoles. However, I also have my bi-weekly Dungeons and Dragons game to look forward to. Yesterday was the first time that an entire party has died at my table. Some GMs would…

  • The World of D&D is Changing Again

    Everyone’s talking about it! Dungeons and Dragons made the New York Times today. They’ll be making another edition. I haven’t written about tabletop gaming in a while, but I have mentioned in the past that… despite the contentious divide, I like Fourth Edition. I think it did a lot of things right. I’d love to…

  • Tabletop Games I Have Played – Dungeons and Dragons (4th ed)

    I really said I shouldn’t be writing, but it is hard to keep me away completely.  Today I’m wearing my Half-Elf scented oil, I’m being asked about drumming up a new campaign, and late summer is about to give way to early fall.  So let’s talk about Dee and Dee; let’s talk about you and…

  • In Further Cthulhu News

    Posting here simply because of its relevance to my previous article, indie RPG Cthulhu Saves the World is now available on PC.  I have to say I was waiting for this, since when I heard it was coming to PC I decided to give it a pass on X-Box and play it at my desk…