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Cynical Bob Shows His Butt

by Bob

First, let me give you something useful.  With less than 6 months to go, I thought I’d point you all to the GenCon Survival Guide.  Enjoy. ———- Phil Gamer had an interesting article the other day on the (generally unspoken) code of conduct that he uses when approaching the gaming table.  He’s got some pretty insightful [...]

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Building a New D&D Campaign Diary – Entry #5: From the Top Down

by Bob

Happy Monday, all. If you’re like me, it sometimes helps to take a step back, and try to look at things from the “big picture” perspective.  I’m not saying that the details aren’t important;  quite the contrary, the details in any new D&D campaign will determine, at least initially, how your players respond to the world.  [...]

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Friday Fantasy Fun – D&D Links to Finish the Work Week: February 8, 2008

by Bob

I’ve got several things today that I’ve been meaning to send your way over the last several weeks, just haven’t taken the time to do so yet.  So, here’s a brain dump for ya ‘all:  Just found this at StupidRanger.com, though it’s been there for a while.  Funny stuff. Amy over at Geek Parenting has [...]

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Building a New D&D Campaign Diary – Entry #4: Answers Redux

by Bob

All right, now that you’ve got your juices flowing and have done some serious brainstorming, I want you to take a step back.  Read through your freewriting from yesterday, and compare it to the original 41 questions.  I want you to choose between three and five questions of the 41 that are, at least in a superficial way, addressed in [...]

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Building a New D&D Campaign Diary – Entry #3: Freewriting

by Bob

OK, so, now that you’ve got the juices flowing, it’s time to keep moving forward.  Today, you want to do more of the same that you did yesterday.  However, whereas yesterday I wanted you to write just a paragraph, today I’d like you to write several.  Yesterday’s paragraph was focused and organized, while today’s should [...]

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Building a New D&D Campaign Diary – Entry #2: Answers

by Bob

The DM:  Well, you’ve had 24 hours.  Do you have all of the answers to those questions from yesterday?  Unsuspecting Blog Reader:  Eh…  The DM:  Good, let’s proceed.  First, you’ll take the six questions about …. Unsuspecting Blog Reader: I don’t actually have them with me.  My, er, cerebrus ate them.  No, I dropped them.  Yeah, [...]

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The Superbowl of D&D

by Bob

It’s no coincidence that tickets went on sale for Gencon yesterday.  Now, I’m not one for conspiracy theories.  For example, I think that “media bias” has little do do with conspiracy, or from people at the top with specific agendas trying to force those things on the common person.  I think it is more the [...]

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Character Death

by Bob

Now, I’ve never been accused of being a killer DM.  The fact of the matter is, I have a better time, and so do my players, when their characters live.  At low levels, this means that I almost always fudge rolls in favor of the party.  At higher levels, it means that I use kinder, [...]

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