Jack’s Dialogical Self

It’s a week before your next game and you come up with a brilliant idea.   You plan out all the details.   The encounters are clever and m...

“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’...