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Just quick hits today: • My guest co-hosting gig on the Power Source podcast is up. Click on the link to download. • One thing I should hav...

Making Characters, All the Way Up One of the things I did at Wizards back in the day was create and then maintain what we called the ...

Something I noticed when I was flipping through recent D&D adventures...how come our D&D characters are agents of "The Man...

Last week, my former colleagues at WotC published a big patch to the D&D rules. And this was a big one--not big in the sense that any si...

When I'm not at my weekly D&D game , playing EVE Online on the PC, or playing Left 4 Dead on the XBox, I'm goofing around with...

I don't play D&D for a living anymore, but I still play D&D. And my half-orc rogue was recently petrified, so it was time to mak...

Dan Pink talks about how to motivate people. It's a 20-minute chunk of a lecture. Go watch it here . I'll wait. (Pause for you to wa...

I wrote another bit of the Scales of War adventure path: Betrayal at Monadhan . It's up on the Dungeon site right now (DDI subscription...

"It" being "me," that is. I enjoyed PAX immensely--it had a terrific energy to it. I played a bunch of great games, met...

...is me, apparently. DOTA was a big deal among the game designers at Wizards for a while, but I never got into it because its rise happene...

Consider this a big footnote to all the "Appendix N" stuff I wrote about back in March. D&D is a great game with a storied his...

First, for the aid of those who don't like reading from the bottom, here are the previous posts in this little miniseries: Part 1: The ...

OK, let's recap: • There's nothing inevitable about Tank/Healer/DPS or Defender/Leader/Striker/Controller. • You can't find g...

Shortly after that last post, I got very busy. I'm a content writer for the Aion MMORPG, which comes out in about a month. Because Aion...

OK, so if you've been following along (or reading from the bottom, I suppose), here's where we are. I'm trying to figure out how...

Yesterday I made the contention that the character class roles... • Tank/DPS/Healer for MMO character classes; and • Defender/Striker/Contr...

I've been thinking a lot about how two of my favorite games (D&D and WoW) and, by extension, two of my favorite pastimes (tabletop R...

I've been playing a ton of World of Warcraft lately. So--fair warning--expect a lot of posts about Warcraft in the next couple of days. ...

If you have an ongoing paragon- or epic-level D&D game going, you're probably get a lot of mileage (both literal and figurative) out...