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How I Started Gaming: Lonely Bookworm to Dice Hoarder
I really didn’t grow up all that geeky. I was an offbeat kid, a weird kid, a not-fitting-in kid. But I wasn’t a geek. I read Tamora Pierce novels, but I also read any other book placed into my hot...
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“Well Actually” is the Death of “Yes, And”
One of the reasons Liz and I started this blog was that we’d had a lot of conversations about why we prefer having fun in RPGs to being right in RPGs. There are some people out there who totally...
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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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Yearning to Campaign
Below is a guest post by my very good friend (and co-blogger over at LizSquared) Liz C. She’s a pretty awesome person and, like me, struggles with the balance between being a parent and being a gamer....
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My Mental Cred Check (Part 1)
I intended to make this post about how dumb cred checks are, but – as I started writing – it became clear that I needed to dive into my own personal struggle with cred checks. With that foundation in...
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Virtual Play and the D&D Next Playtest
Okay, here’s the deal. Virtual play (via Skype and Google Hangout) have, in the last year, become essential to how I play RPGs. From Kobolds Ate My Baby to Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple, I’ve had a...
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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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G+ Gaming Maybe?
I play a lot of games via G+ Hangouts. It’s pretty much the ideal situation for the husband and me because, not only are we far away from some of our favorite gamers, but we’ve got a toddler. We easily...
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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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