Over the years, I have GMed a number of different RPG's, and over the years, I have noticed that there are some games you can play over and over, and other ones that you cannot run again and generate the same feeling, like the first time. I started to look at those one-time games and started to notice that they shared some common elements that made re-running ...

The Wiki. A self-editing web page. A Swiss Army Knife application. It has been hailed as the office savior and reviled as the destroyer of corporate culture. It has reached the techno buzzword status in corporate America. That's all fine and dandy for the boardroom, but what about the game table? How can your campaign benefit from a wiki? Let's take a look. To understand how ...

Recently my gaming group has gone through a bit of a gaming drought. We have had a number of cancellations occur over the past few weeks, where a single person could not make it to the session. Sometimes that person was the GM, and other times it was one of the players. With the type of games we run, and our general GMing style, our ...

In the world of RPG's there are several classic RPG arguments that float around on various RPG blogs, message boards, and even raise their head in seminars at gaming conventions. I like to call these arguments, "spam arguments" because they are as original as the Nigerian 419 email message, and are just about as pointless. In hopes to have some kind of exorcism or cleansing ritual for ...