Last year, my daughter Zeta gave me a great gift for Father’s Day. She wrote and drew a book about something dear old dad taught her… how to play Dungeons & Dragons. Well technically we were playing Labyrinth Lord, but same difference. Zeta and her sister Nita pick some minis from my collection to represent themselves. Tip for kid’s game designers: Pets are a big hit. Add them to your game.

You know the drill. I’m annotating every single 1st Edition Dungeons & Dragons Adventure. A3: Assault on the Aerie of the Slave Lords is on the chopping block today.

This is the second post in a series of posts dedicated to reading and annotating every single 1st Edition Dungeons & Dragons Adventure. Today’s adventure is A2: Secret of the Slaver’s Stockage.

This is the first post in a series of posts dedicated to reading and annotating every single 1st Edition Dungeons & Dragons Adventure. The adventure on the block today is A1: Slave Pits of the Undercity.

A while ago I had a great idea for a new campaign I was planning on. All the players would start out as hardened criminals incarcerated in a maximum security prison mine deep inside a mountain. The adventure started with a prison break. The characters would start out practically naked with no weapons in a hostile environment. Giant spiders and other hideous creatures could leap on them at…

From the moment I entered the convention center, I felt immersed in a massive chaotic swell of gaming culture–unreleased video games, photos with cosplayers, shiny new board games, walls of slick videos, back to back panels with gaming legends, creative indie games, marketers trying to shove useless crap in your hand every ten steps and everywhere you look, throngs of unapologetic gamers. Trying…

PAX Prime 2011 launched today. After briefly walking the floor, I marched to the Games on Demand gaming room (Room 306) to get my game on. Another gamer filled me in on the GM-Less Gaming Workshop led by Ben Robbins that was going on a few rooms down. I figured I go check out….

Last year, I started heavily using video projection in my games. I began by displaying maps and handouts, but after a time I came up with the idea of keeping track of combat initiative with a scoreboard I could project on the wall. I discovered a cool little …

Starting February 9th, I’ll be running D&D Encounters, Season 4: March of the Phantom Brigade at The Curious Child on Bainbridge Island. I slapped together a quick render and posted this flyer around town.

So I’m finally buying my first home! It’s on Bainbridge Island in the great state of Washington. We are in a great location, the schools are amazing and everything is so green. It’s a short 35 minute ferry ride to Seattle. Unfortunately, it’s a pretty small town and there are no game stores. I know there has to be some tabletop gamers out here. I made a flyer tonight that I’m going to post …