Min – Maxing

Min Maxing RPGs

Do You Min Max? What is it? Who does it? How does it affect the game? For those who don’t know, let’s take a look at what Min / Maxing is regarding tabletop RPGs. Below, I will be relating my experiences with it in…

What Happened to RPGs?

The gap to suspended disbelief It’s time to wake up! We’ve stopped gaming the what if world! What happened? Being a grown up, that’s what happened! There is a reason we reach for nostalgia and old school RPGs. Red Box, Chainmail, Moldvay, AD&D. It’s…

Turning Undead

To everything Turn Turn Turn! Dungeons & Dragons and many other tabletop RPGs seem to have a plentiful supply of undead. Clerics in classic tabletop games get the ability to call upon their deity to affect undead, and it may require more strategy than…

I’m Dead?

The DM Killed ME! Is often the knee jerk reaction to a character death at many tables. Much of this reaction depends on how the particular table plays the game and how death is handled by the group as a whole. Let’s take a…

Roll for Initiative

Initiative – Who’s on First? Quite possibly one of the most squirrelly and house-ruled portions of classic RPG game systems is initiative. It’s the piece of the game that is often simplified at convention games and larger groups but maybe doesn’t need to be….