Jack’s Dialogical Self

“You miss.” Two of the least interesting words that can be uttered by a Game Master.         W hen running a game it is the responsibi...

Some game systems are fairly lenient on what skill set you can select for a given character.   Others are much more ridged.    For the pur...

One thing that is not necessarily required, but often fun even if they aren’t used on the table is minis(or miniatures if you prefer)! The...

      Be it a big budget movie or the latest adventure video game you may have noticed the music playing in the background.   Emphasizing te...

A big question in any role playing combat situation is: “When is it my turn?”        Classically this is decided by a die roll of so...

To give this blog a bit of structure, and to make it easy to reference for both myself and those that might find these rantings useful, I’...

One of the biggest things that can turn a good table top game into a great game is the pre game. Ways to do this are simple yet effecti...