Archive for the 'Gaming' Category

What D&D Looks Like to a Newbie

I was prompted by a friend who asked what a gaming session looked like Before I go into what a session looks like, there are a few factors to consider One, not every gaming session will look like what I describe

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Free to a Good Home: One Slightly Used Cleric

So, after the grand total of one evening of roleplay and other D&D nerdity, I decided I just wasn’t feeling my young, naive druid cleric, and started researching other races to mess with I really had an obnoxious impulse to play a ranger (archer), with whom I could roleplay more readily than my nice but boring little cleric

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Gaming Session #1: Five Strangers Meet in a Tavern…

A friend, hereafter named Red-Headed GM, offered to start up a D&D game with myself, the druid and the two other roommates the gamer and the geek, and a mutual friend who arrived with the GM I had picked the gamer’s brain regarding various D&D things, I’ve played a few MMOs and knew the right questions to ask regarding different classes, my gaming style and how I can adapt that to a D&D game, different races, and so on

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010