In which Chatty tackles three well-established playing styles (Power Gaming, Butt Kicking and Tactics) and shares advice to tweak encounters to take them into account.
Archives for July 2012
Critical Bits for the week ending 2012-07-08
RT @TheIdDM: Combat Speed in D&D Next http://t.co/iM3rchsk Preliminary data collected during a #dndnext playtest session. #dnd #rpg # Summoner Wars for iOS released: http://t.co/pWuNgBTo As previewed in our Origins report: http://t.co/DRjUUuiX # RT @mikemearls: Our ENnies dream date auction is up – play D&D with Chris Perkins! http://t.co/EtqzY2jy #
Portrait of a Card Addict as a Young Man
After over 10 years clean, only playing the occasional draft in the meantime, I’ve gotten back into Magic: The Gathering, in a pretty big way. I’ve played in the last three prereleases held by my FLGS, and am playing another one this Saturday for the release of Magic 2013 core set. I’ve started playing both drafts at the FLGS, and organizing them at home. Perhaps most shockingly of all, I’ve pushed to play Magic at days when we could be doing other gaming like board games or RPGs. The bug has bit hard.
Zen and the Art of Dungeon Mastering #3: Mind your Players’ Styles, Part 1 of 4
Chatty’s new Back-to-Basics DMing series continues by tackling a cornerstone issue of understanding and catering to what bring (and keeps) players at your gaming table.
Making Better Lives Through Genuine Threats Of Death
Though I’ve started to find my voice in recent months as a Dungeon Master, there is still a lot of undiscovered ground for me to cover. How to come up with named on the fly that don’t end in “eeberbeeb”. How to keep one lonely alligator tear from rolling down my cheek as my best laid plans are turned to slag. And, of course, how to kill the entire party. That’s right. I’m a TPK virgin.
Critical Bits for the week ending 2012-07-01
RT @dnd_articles: 3.5 Edition Reprints http://t.co/hjI8k2DZ #dnd # "Achtung! Cthulhu," WW2 setting for Call of Cthulhu, available now. Info: http://t.co/1a6VfXrj Purchase PDF: http://t.co/mfyEsRM6 #
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