Although mapping and exploring and figuring and fighting are all lots of fun, the best campaigns also mix in a different kind of action in a...

Well, it's been a long hiatus for this blog and my campaign. The four of us were all getting set to play last night when disaster struck...

(This continues my series of game-mastering problems and tips grafted onto play session reports. If you're more interested in the GM stu...

The last encounter of the session was an encounter with another human group, who I'd decided beforehand to be a rival group of the goat ...

Result 20 on my one-page wilderness random encounter table says to "roll twice," raising the possibility that the party will stumb...

In Friday's session the players took a lead I had been dangling, and while the explorers didn't go into the dungeon, there was actio...

Trossley Rule: To precede reports of Actual Play with something everyone can use, related to the run. In this case, a random table to det...

It's been a while since my last update on the Trossley campaign. I find campaign reports tend to go uncommented and I myself often skim ...

Tomi Ungerer's "Les Trois Brigands" To keep the pressure on players, it's a real good idea to have some competition for...

After a long hiatus due to our travels and various other infirmities, the campaign got back rolling Friday evening. Reaction and morale roll...

Politics, shopping, carousing? Not tonight. Back to the dungeon for another helping of kobold slaying! I was ready for them. The current k...

The lead-in to last night's Trossley run: The collapsible *11* foot pole ( sections of 3, 4 and 4 feet) the party had commissioned from...

In Utherton the survivors of our band tried to forget the death of their comrade, each in his or her own way. Boniface the holy militant, su...

Knights, samurai and other warrior elites know that the point of life is not just to live well, but to die well. Adventure games, though, ty...

Last week's session was a tense, hard and brutal slog with one of the three PCs dead at the end and the others unconscious, saved only b...

Three different runs of the same dungeon now - my Level 1 for the Castle of the Mad Archmage. Four ramps going down. Each party chooses th...

This evening's session found the players cleaning the last few scrub polyp-monsters from the millhouse cellars and getting into a long, ...

[This account of last week's game is penned by my wife, also known as the magic-user Ephemera. Notes from me, as GM, are in brackets.] ...

Tonight was the climax of the Millhouse Saga. Rushing to the porch of the white house, the adventurers found flames all around, the guardsma...