A friend of mine asked me, with deadly seriousness, why I was throwing 4e under the bus? I was caught off guard, flat-footed as it were. What a fucker! How dare he? You know as well as I do that RPGs, in a cosmic and historical sense, are insignificant. But I’m the hero of my [...]
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Reflections on the Multiverse
When I took the job at Paizo, I received quite a few requests to not lose the 4e focus of this blog. I’m in a strange and wondrous position. The one guy on the staff that not only swallowed the 4e punch, I helped mix it. Now I’m working for a company that not only didn’t [...]
First Principles
There are lessons I learned during my very first game of D&D that have stuck with me for a long time. First off, your first game is a bleeding, bloody confusion. There are moments of clarity there: terms you understand, and the fact that it is narrative—you are part of a story. But the procedures [...]