Role Playing Games

A few days ago we were eating at our local breakfast taco place when the Brooks & Dunn song “Neon Moon” (1991) came on and I remembered with a start, “Oh yeah, that’s right, I LOVE this song.” I tried to explain my brief flirtation with ’90s pop country music…

As your party enters the town, you notice a sense of unease amongst the townspeople. They tell you that the town’s well has gone dry, and strange sounds can be heard below. The townspeople set up a guard around the well, but no one is brave enough to investigate what…

From niche hobby to cultural phenomenon, let’s explore the factors behind the Dungeons & Dragons (DND) craze. — Dungeons and Dragons (DND) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game that was first published in 1974. The game, which was created by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, has gone through many iterations and has been a popular pastime for gamers for nearly 50 years. However, in recent years, DND has…

“I don’t want you to play that game. It’s of the Devil!” — The year was 1979 and I was a fourth grader at Bethlehem Baptist Christian Academy (BBCA) and one of my class buddies introduced us to the game Dungeons & Dragons. I knew nothing about Dungeons & Dragons (hereinafter referred to simply as D&D) but it sounded cool. So a group…

by KJ Proulx I admittedly have zero knowledge of the Dungeons and Dragons game, so being excited about a film version wasn’t exactly in the cards for me. With that said, I also have to admit that I just hope every film that comes out is well-done and I’ll give…

Modern Methods For Old-School Gaming It’s not unusual for me to use an electronic device when playing a tabletop RPG, whether that is Dungeons & Dragons or something else. I tend to keep my character sheets in plain text files using Vim and accessible through MEGA, the cloud storage and file syncing platform. …

Table-top role-playing games (TTRPGs) like Dungeons & Dragons let you reprise the role of just about any character you can imagine. No one blinks twice at a purple-skinned lizardfolk swashbuckler who backflips into every battle. Everyone blindly accepts the 38-pound, 3-foot-tall halfling barbarian who can bend steel beams with her…