http://newburyonline.com Role-playing tips, commentary and advice from Scot Newbury Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:22:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en About a month ago the folks at Gnome Stew had an interesting post entitled I Love My Tiny Notebook which talked about the fact that as a gamer (particular those of us that GM) we frequently have ideas pop into our heads and by having a notebook with us we ... http://newburyonline.com/2008/07/08/pen-paper-index-cards-and-a-cellphone/ This past weekend just before the gaming group arrived at my house for a rousing session we lost power. Ok, since we game with pencil and paper no big deal right? Wrong. My group is slowly becoming more and more electronic in nature. Myself and one other player keep our characters on ... http://newburyonline.com/2008/07/01/no-power-now-what/ Last Friday the latest incarnation of D&D was released, the 4th edition, which was followed on Saturday with Worldwide D&D Game Day 2008 when a lot of folks got to take it for a test drive. So how come I didn't post about it? Well, first off there are a lot ... http://newburyonline.com/2008/06/09/what-no-4e-post/ So far I've covered the good, and the bad so now I'm going to cover the ugly. These are the things that I felt went from bad to worse and on some level I think contributed to the ending of the campaign. These are also the items that seemed ... http://newburyonline.com/2008/06/03/realms-of-rylon-postmortem-the-ugly/ The folks over at Gnome Stew posted today about using a Wiki for your gaming group in their post: Group Lovin’ For Your Wiki. After covering the basics of what a wiki is they dive into the uses for your campaign and start by addressing one of the main strengths ... http://newburyonline.com/2008/05/30/use-a-wiki-for-your-gaming-group/