Hot Button: Distractions

What distractions do you tolerate at the gaming table? When I was young and still playing in my parent's basement (no, it was not last year! I was still a teenager, honest!), I had a GM that insisted he could run a game with the TV on in the background. Needless to say, every time we played like this, he'd get engrossed with what was on the screen and ...

Troy’s Crock Pot: Goodbye Gleemax, we hardly got to know each other through you

What’s the Crock Pot? Just a simmering bowl of lentils and herbs, with a dash of DMing observations. Don’t be afraid to dip in your ladle and stir, or throw in something from your own spice rack. Gaming brains don't belong in jars Wizards of the Coast will pull the plug on the gaming social networking site Gleemax in September. The site was difficult to navigate — a crippling factor for a ...

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