Of late, I have listened to Fear the Boot with an awfully critical ear – despite my abiding affection for the hosts. I’ve settled into a habit of enumerating all the many ways Chad and Dan are wrong, suffering from narrow perspectives and absence of vision as they are. In fact, I wrote about some […]
As a gamemaster, you must never discount that player motivation will often trump character motivation. Sure, everyone likes to brag about games with “deep roleplaying” and “staying in-character” and most of the time experienced roleplayers have little trouble separating their desires from the character’s. However, sometimes there’s a carrot dangling that no player can resist […]
After listening to Fear the Boot’s recent episode on playing animal characters, I wrote yesterday about playing something approaching a true animal (i.e. no thumbs, no pants). Today, I want to pick up on the other part of FtB’s episode. Role playing more human-like animal characters. Y’know, furries. Anthropomorphs The hosts of Fear the Boot […]
The great thing about Fear the Boot is that I often disagree with them, which gives me stuff to write about here. And when I say ‘often,’ I mean ‘all-the-time.’ So no shortage of content here at IoM. In last week’s curiously well-timed episode that dropped Friday instead of its usual Wednesday and that […]
It was just a few weeks ago that Wizards of the Coast announced their decision to immediately discontinue their distribution of DnD via PDF. Which, you know, screwed over a whole lot of people who have paid for multiple downloads of WOTC content. The publisher cited digital piracy as the reason for its decision. Immediately, […]
Sean Patrick Fannon’s 2008 was not his best year. The Shaintar author described the year as “significantly difficult” in a blog from last October. He went on to paint a very dismal picture of 2008: “The love of my life shattered my heart;” “A family member has, in the course of destroying his own life, […]
Last time I told you all about two of the ways to handle overland travel in D&D (and other fantasy games). Today we’re going to jump headfirst into even more techniques. Again, think of these as different knobs and dials you can adjust in order to make overland travel as easy or as complicated as […]
You know, looking at some of the preview art from Red Robin #2, I’m beginning to wonder if Red Robin is, in fact, Tim Drake. See, Tim Drake is supposed to be, what? Fifteen? Seventeen? The character of Red Robin appears to be much older than that. Of course, that could just be the art, […]
Sometimes, an idea is presented that is so awesome that I hate that I wasn’t the one that thought of it! This is oneCourtesy of Sham’s Grog ‘n Blog, Chgowiz’s Old Guy RPG Blog and Mike’s Society of the Torch, Pole and Rope comes the One Page Dungeon Creation Contest.
Hey there old school gamers! Remember when we liked playing video games on our PC? I mean, sure we had our Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis, but you couldn’t play the best games on those systems…no, stuff like DOOM and the original Need for Speed…those were PC games back then, and PC gaming was good. […]