I just got through GenCon hotel reservations. What a shitty system that is! I get the hotel rooms for a group of 7 people. We
Month: January 2012
A1 Sewers in Pictures
Last weekend I ran the second half of A1 (the sewers part) for a group of friends and coworkers as a test run for TotalCon.
Fighting Shoulder to Shoulder
Yesterday I ran another practice run of one of the A-series modules, the sewer part of A1 in fact. I will post more detail about
Increased Complexity in D&D
I read a delightful article in The Dragon issue #39 (July 1980) last night, titled “Uniformity, Conformity, or neither?” by Karl Horak. It’s a short
More Good News from Wizards
Discovered this transcript of the 2012 D&D Products seminar posted at ENWorld. In the Q&A section is this rather encouraging bit of info: Any plans
Frank Mentzer is Reading My Mind
A lot of my recent blog posts have centered around conventions and tournament games. I guess that’s not too surprising. The convention season really starts
Convention Games Follow-up
The poll in my post from earlier this week seems to be pointing me in the direction of AD&D for running convention games, at least
Gateway to Adventure
I made an interesting little discovery when Delta visited last week. We were in my game room when Delta spotted my Holmes box set on
Gamer Culture
With the recent purchase of an e-reader, I’ve found myself reading through the early Dragon Magazines as my pre-bed reading. I’m up to about issue
Convention Games
The news about the 1st edition AD&D reprints has got me thinking once again about what system I use when running convention games. For my