Showing up for work at Chessex Manufacturing, in Berkeley, California, in the mid-90s, was exactly the kind of adventure I thought I should be having in my… Read more “Table Talk: Chessex Stories – Ork Flesh IS Flesh!”
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Table Talk: Chessex Stories
Prologue: Well? How did I Get Here? The mid-90s were a heady time in the gaming sphere; the Internet was brand-new, there was this little indy game… Read more “Table Talk: Chessex Stories”
Dungeon Mastering: Art or Science?
TSR line editor Mike Carr asks in the 1979 introduction to the Dungeon Master’s Guide: “Is dungeon mastering an art or a science? An interesting question!” It’s… Read more “Dungeon Mastering: Art or Science?”
Table Talk: Dude, Where’s My Campaign Book?
If there’s another edition of D&D that has more settings and reskinned environments than fifth edition, I don’t know what it is. It’s a good game system; a nearly perfect balance of crunch and DM fait accompli. I don’t think it’s a universal system, and there are some suppositions baked into the game (like armor class and to a lesser extent, alignment) which is hard to square up in certain genres, like science fiction. Why people keep wanting to do space opera with d20 is a mystery to me in a world where we have Star Wars and Traveller, but I digress.
Table Talk: Get Outta Town
Starting today I am going to strive to produce and post at least one rpg gaming entry a week. I’m going to try to brand them with this nifty graphic I tricked up, for those of you who want to tell at a glance if this is something you want to read or not.
Field Report: 2023 North Texas RPG Con
Your Intrepid N.T.A.B. Field Research Team has just returned from the Fury Road Killing Fields of the Metroplex, where we set up a mobile field office at… Read more “Field Report: 2023 North Texas RPG Con”
Field Report: GameHole Con, Madison, WI
We are back from a road trip that may have been several days in the making, but was still over a thousand dollars cheaper than simply flying… Read more “Field Report: GameHole Con, Madison, WI”
Tools of the Trade, now in book form!
Hmm? What’s that? Oh, nothing, just this new tabletop role-playing game supplement I wrote. It’s now available in book form. You can grab yourself a copy of… Read more “Tools of the Trade, now in book form!”
Nerd Alert! A New RPG Book for Fantasy Heists!
Sound the whoop whoop! There’s a new book on the horizon! It’s called Tools of the Trade: A GM’s Guide to Creating and Running Fantasy Heists, and… Read more “Nerd Alert! A New RPG Book for Fantasy Heists!”
Another Review on Patreon
This time I’m talking about the Marvel Multiverse RPG playtest book that recently dropped. https://www.patreon.com/posts/review-marvel-66599091 I’ve got a bit of surgery cough at the end, but it’s… Read more “Another Review on Patreon”