Every story starts with characters in a place. Often the first thing that happens is they need to go to another place. Stuff happens in between. Very many of the first questions have to do with place. Why are the characters where they are? How hard is it going to be to get from where…
Category: RPG
Role Playing Games, the paper kind, not the online kind.
Recovering An Old Obsession – D&D
The guy who invented D&D has died. Don’t know if I would have made it through adolescence without that game. – Ron Davis, Reactuate.com, March 4, 2008. Recently I’ve rediscovered an old obsession and am returning to it. There are going to be a lot of D&D related posts on the blog, so I thought…
Gary Gygax Died Today
The guy who invented D&D has died. Don’t know if I would have made it through adolescence without that game.
D&D and Church
Stubbled Upon this interesting story about what happen when one middle schooler asked another to play D&D and his mother got worried and went to her pastor.
D&D Baby
Via Accordian Guy: A great T-shirt for D&D player offspring.
I Spent Sunday in Azeroth
I’m totally addicted. Friday night I was up till 2 AM playing World of Warcraft. Sunday afternoon I played at least 5 hours straight. And I’d cram in short stays in that fantasy world every chance I get. I’m exhausted right now and I am going over to another photographers house tonight to talk about…
Dolph Does Dragon-con
Photo by Dolph One of the instructors at the Supershoots Las Vegas workshop I’m going to in October spent the weekend at DragonCon in Atlanta. He decided to do something a little different than chicks with swords etc. The picture at the left is his. It’s awesome. And sad. And true, well maybe not totally…
Reno 911 and D&D
Hell In A Handbasket sent a link to a clip from Reno 911 where they arrest a D&D player for shooting his buddy with an arrow. If you’ve got a Mac and can’t see the clip inline, here’s the direct URL to the WMV. It is freaking hilarious. I especially like the part where the…