Why Go To GenCon

File under – too late, posting anyway I went to my first GenCon in 2001. It was overwhelming, and fantastic. It wasn’t my first convention. My first was MosCon, a science fiction and gaming convention held in Moscow, Idaho. I went for gaming with my friends. There were some other panels and speakers, but honestly […]

Robots in DnD

This entire article is full of spoilers for my GenCon 2018 game – sort of. If you’ve looked at the original article, it should be apparent (felgercarb, and “Lorne”) that Battlestar Galactica is going to show up in one way or another. And you can’t have Battlestar Galactica without Cylons. Making Cylons in DnD starts […]

GenCon 2018 Characters

Now that the Name and the structure of my GenCon event are ready, it’s time to update characters. This year it is a fairly easy process because they are all moving from 3rd to 4th. I 5e DnD that means upping the attribute scores. In most cases it means bumping the primary stat up as […]

GenCon 2018 Bring on the Events

The group I play with, Party of One is getting ready to submit events for GenCon, so I thought I would share mine: Title: How Greene is My Valley Short Description: King Roderick Howell the Fourth sent you on a peaceful mission out west to the Cartwright Ranch. So of course you’re attacked by armored […]

Travelers, GMing a Modern Day Setting

See this post for sample Traveler PC write ups (Savage Worlds). After figuring out what you want for characters and enough of the setting to start letting players know what to expect, it’s time to start thinking about more specifics. In a modern day setting, it’s the differences that the players need to know. Depending […]

Travelers the RPG, Welcome to the 21st

My latest Netflix obsession is a show called Travelers. It features a group of people sent from the future to stop various environmental, political, and social issues from happening in the present day. Evidently the future is not bright – for anyone. The hook is that only the Travelers consciousness is sent back in time […]

Big Boss Battles

A few weekends ago my friends held an all day game event. Two different games, Star Trek in Savage Worlds and DnD 5e (followed by some Rock Band). Both games were awesome, but the GMs both seemed to feel that the Boss Battles at the end didn’t have enough “punch” (again, totally disagree – they […]

Gaming Ideas at Parent Teacher Conferences

I just returned from Parent/Teacher Conferences. My sons are in 9th and 8th grade and here in Minnesota that means High School and Middle School. It was interesting to me how each conference was organized. The High School conferences were held in the teachers rooms, while the Middle School had everyone in a couple large […]

Gaming Ideas from Work

I work in a cube farm. It’s a small cube farm, with a small company, but a cube farm nonetheless. I work in tech support. Customers ask me questions about how software works, why it doesn’t work, and how do I fix errors. Surprisingly (or not – really), almost all the answers are either in […]

Using GM NPCs

I’ve started playing Tomb of Annihilation (ToA) with my kids. We’re just starting the adventure, but one thing I’ve noticed is it introduces GM NPCs as part of the group. Because it’s only my two sons  playing (one is a rogue and the other is a monk), I often use NPCs to help the party. […]