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Month: January 2012

January 31, 2012 Paul

GenCon Hotels

Conventions, GenCon
GenCon Hotels

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

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January 31, 2012December 22, 2018 Paul

A1 Sewers in Pictures

Conventions, Role Playing
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. 

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January 30, 2012 Paul

Fighting Shoulder to Shoulder

Role Playing
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

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January 30, 2012December 22, 2018 Paul

Increased Complexity in D&D

Role Playing
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

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January 28, 2012 Paul

More Good News from Wizards

Role Playing
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

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January 28, 2012 Paul

Frank Mentzer is Reading My Mind

Role Playing
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

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January 27, 2012 Paul

Convention Games Follow-up

Conventions, Role Playing, Tournaments
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

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January 25, 2012December 22, 2018 Paul

Gateway to Adventure

Role Playing
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

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January 23, 2012October 24, 2017 Paul

Gamer Culture

Role Playing
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

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January 20, 2012 Paul

Convention Games

Conventions
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

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