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I admit it. I’ve resisted using a mounted whiteboard for my game for a long time.
It’s not that I have anything against dry-erase markers. On the contrary, a dry-erase initiative tracker and a basic Flip-Mat brand 5-foot base map are both fine GMing tools that have a place at my table.
(And yes, I realize, they are just smaller versions of the same thing.)
My resistance to the mounted whiteboard ...
Consider, if you will, Peter Muse of Meredith, N.H. As related in a Feb. 25 story from The Associated Press, this ice fishing enthusiast — who already has a $2,500 bobhouse with fireplace, bathroom and four-burner stove — decided to set up a hot tub on the ice.
Thirty-year-old Krisy Short, who was enjoying the tub in her red, white and blue bikini, gave her verdict: “What’s more American ...
Friends of the Stew, Ed Healy and Rone Barton, co-hosts over at the gaming podcast Atomic Array, are going to put the goodly folks of Goodman Games beneath the bright strobe lights of inquiry — or at least subject them to one of Rone’s description-defying rants.
Anyway, the subject at hand is Goodman’s latest game line — Master Dungeons — Fourth Edition adventure modules designed specifically for experienced GMs. ...
Oh the weather outside is frightful.
Waiting four hours overnight in the parking lot of a Casey’s General Store for a snow plow to come by and clear a path home certainly provides plenty of time to think about the game effects of winter weather.
Historically, winter has been the bane of warfare. While there have been notable exceptions, the general rule was that armies suspended their campaigns once the ...
