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How Do You Foster Good Roleplaying?

by Bob

When I was 13 years old, RPGs were all about killing things and taking their stuff. In a lot of ways, back then, D&D was a major precursor to today’s MMORPGs. Sure, we had some storylines back then, but they were usually pretty standard quests.
It was mostly “roll” playing, and less “role” playing. That [...]

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Interview with Harrison McLeod of Escaping Reality

by Bob

Harrison McLeod (Harry) is a good friend and colleague, and one half of the Men with Pens team. I had a chance to spend some time talking to Harry about their latest project, a double-whammy initiative including the creative fiction writing site Capturing Fantasy and the game site, Escaping Reality.
Tell me a little [...]

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Role-Playing Games Writing Contest / Guest-Posting at The DMs Blog

by Bob

Hi everyone!
Just a couple quick unrelated notes today.
First:  you want to make sure you check out this week’s writing contests at Helium.  There is a contest specifically on Role-Playing Games.  I wrote most of the topics and can’t enter, so I’d love to see one of my readers get 75 big ones this week.  There are other cash [...]

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What If? On 4E and the Future

by Bob

What if it sucks?
Worse…
What if I don’t think it sucks, but the rest of my group does?
I’ve been asking myself this lately, as I think my good friend Phil has convinced Randy and the rest of our local group that 4E is going to be bad.  REALLY bad. 
Aw, hell.  It’s not fair to blame it [...]

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Game Masters Day – Better Late Than Never!

by Bob

I had intended to observe GMs day in much grander fashion than last year, but with Gary leaving us it didn’t seem right.
In retrospect, maybe he’d have wanted it that way.  At any rate, my loving wife made a cake on GMs day.  Here it is:

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Will you always play DnD?

by Bob

I want to tell you all about a couple of conversations I’ve had lately.
 The first one is an ongoing discussion with my friend Randy.  Randy and I tend to have these big idea discussions about D&D, about our group of friends, and about our lives.  One discussion revolved around whether the people you play D&D [...]

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I. Hate. Slate. So. Much.

by Bob

I take a few days of relaxation in regard to DnD, only to come back and be reminded of Why I hate Slate.com so much.
FRACK!  Bastards.  I expected it to happen eventually.
I am so pissed off right now I might just spit.  Go over to Slate and tell the jackhole about himself, will you?
Thanks to [...]

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The 4E Malaise

by Bob

If your gaming group is anything like mine, you can’t stop talking about Fourth Edition.
Every blog post or article at WotC, every entry at EnWorld, and every goofy comment (no offense, boys) at Critical Hits and my guys are chatting it up.  It is as if they are a knitting circle that just found out [...]

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We Remember Gary – PodCast

by Bob

I was planning on kicking off my latest feature on the DM’s Blog today.  I was going to start publishing a series of PodCasts on 4E.  However, there are two things getting into the way of this:
 1.  I’m having a heck of a time getting the podcast software set up correctly, and
2.  The first portion [...]

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For Gary.

by Bob

Tributes around the web:
My obit for Gary
NY Times Obit
CNN Obit
news.com.au Obit
A LOLcat tribute
The Cimmerian:  The Dungeon Master Has Died
Tributes at RPGnet forums
Troll Lord Games Forum tributes
EnWorld Forums Memories and Tributes
OOTS Tribute
Bruce Cordell on Gygax
Critical Hits Tribute
 And the one that made me cry:
WotC’s tribute
If you’d like to send your regards and well wishes to the Gygax [...]

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