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No, My Five Games
Liz posted her five RPGs that changed how she looks at gaming, and I was planning to write a post about one of my total favourite games in the world, Smallworld. Instead of that, I’m going to post...
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Get Your Friends to Push Your Buttons
Your first time at the D&D table: maybe it happened recently, or maybe it’s something you’re looking to try! The first time I sat at a gaming table, I remember a hurricane of excitement, ideas,...
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My Mom Plays Pathfinder, Everybody Dies
Long time no see, everybody! I have been rather busy lately. I had a booth at the Calgary Comic Expo, and it was amazing. I got to wield a longsword and Nightmare Moon was my backup: Before the Calgary...
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Take a Moment to Stop and Smell the Glue
Not every RPG party is a precision built, totally mechanically cohesive team. Our lives are busy, and a character creation session is time that could be spent actually playing. For gamers with jobs,...
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“I Attack with the Kobold”“You miss.”
So here’s a problem: I still haven’t played D&DNext with Liz. Hey Liz, remember when we did all that yelling so we could play online together? Let’s reasses our priorities and do that. I had the...
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Fear of Games: Failing Will Saves
Here’s what confuses me about other gamers’ origin stories: “I picked up a copy of the red box. I made up the weirdest dungeons, stuff I’d never show anyone today, and I ran the game for my friends” I...
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Suspension of Disbelief: The Gaming Table’s Magic Spell
So if you follow me on twitter, you’ll know that I recently watched all of Community. I do this quite often – I inject a TV show straight into my brain in a continuous stream as I work at my sewing...
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Merry Christmas from Character Gen!
Hello, our lovely readers. Today, we’re excited to give you a Christmas present! A Fiasco playset written by Lyndsay and myself. It’s called And To All A Good Night and it’s inspired by our Christmases...
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Game Turducken: Launching my Pathfinder Campaign
This November, I started playing Magic The Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers on Steam. If you follow me on twitter, you may remember that I referred to this as #eggquest. I had a fun time playing...
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Castles Up Close
I can’t believe I haven’t written about this yet. It’s possible you read this blog and don’t know that I went to Germany in February. Liz and I spent a glorious week touring the castles along the...
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