One of my favorite parts of D&D, and of gaming in general, is teaching my friends. Saturday night, Erik and I got to help Zack workshop his first D&D adventure as a Dungeon Master.Read More »
Month: February 2017
The Magic Circle
In my last post, I made reference to the “Magic Circle,” but didn’t explain it. It’s the idea that you don’t let game strategy influence nor be influenced by things that happen outside of the game. Or maybe you could say, “What happens on Catan stays on Catan.”
A Human Dilemma
Here’s a moral dilemma for gamers: Someone has been helping you toward your win condition in a game for the last few hours. You have the opportunity to win now, but the player who has been helping you this whole time tells you this will cause him to lose, and he asks you to wait just one more turn. You could potentially lose in the meantime. Do you play to win and end the game now?
Schadenfreude in the Stocks
“I try to break out of the stocks.” He had been waiting all session for combat, trying to pick fights with anyone who threw him shade, and here he was watching combat helplessly from the stocks.Read More »
Shouting Over Camelot
There were three conversations happening in a group of seven players, everyone’s voice a little elevated in order to be heard. I’m not sure everyone even knew whose turn it was anymore, because this had been going on for a couple of minutes. I pulled myself back from the melee for a second to smile in appreciation of how into it everyone was. We were all (mostly) on the same team, despite the appearance from the shouting, and everyone had their own excited ideas about the best next play.Read More »
Instead of Church, I’m Playing “Shadow of the Demon Lord”
Yesterday morning was my second time playing Shadow of the Demon Lord. The last time I played it, probably a year or so ago, ended in a party wipe, which was fine since it was a one-shot, but because we played at level 0, it didn’t feel like we really got into the meat of the game very much. I was hoping for a slightly different experience this time around, and got it.Read More »
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