Thanks for spending some of your lockdown time to check out my weekly feature, Irreverent Reading! It's where my son and I read every word of the Monster Manual, dreaming and opining about what we find. Homeschooling continues with enhanced online content. Sadly, I was really enjoying the Montessori Lite approach I was taking with … Continue reading Irreverent Reading: D&D 5E Monster Manual from Galeb Duhr to Gith
Now that we are home schooling and I'm working on getting the taxes done, there was very little time this week for much of anything. My wise wife says, "Write about what you're doing!" So here goes... a roundup of the week in my corner on the gaming cosmos... Roll20 FTW My regular group has … Continue reading Weekly Round-up: Wicked Mazes, D&D, Champions Now, & Deep Dungeon History
Thanks for dropping by my weekly feature, Irreverent Reading! It's where my son and I read every word of the Monster Manual, dreaming and opining about what we find. Week three, or is it four(?), of homeschooling. Now that it's clear that we're not going back until the Fall, we've got more distance learning to … Continue reading Irreverent Reading: D&D 5E Monster Manual from Faerie Dragon to Fungi – F is for Funky
My current game group is far too wonderful to let something like a global health crisis stop us from playing. But even if caution didn't dictate social distancing, we'd still be under a shelter in place order. So, online we go into the sometimes bewildering forest of apps to help us chat, roll dice, manage … Continue reading My First Online GMing, by Crom, with Simon Carryer’s On Mighty Thews
Thanks for dropping by my weekly feature, Irreverent Reading! It's where my son and I absorb every word of the Monster Manual, opining and dreaming about what we find... This was week two of homeschooling and the Bay Area quarantine. Very thankful at this point that we were one of the first places to shut … Continue reading Irreverent Reading: D&D 5E Monster Manual from Dragon (Turtle) to Ettin – The Drow Problem
Greetings Dear Reader! Picture me shivering slightly in the outside office I mentioned last week. I'm very much regretting having lost my fingerless gloves. Didn't realize they'd become a mission-critical accoutrement! My thoughts are with our gaming brethren in NYC. I hope you are all safe, sane, and healthy. Fingers crossed when I say this, … Continue reading Playing Atlas Games’ Once Upon a Time with the Kid + embracing online gaming
Thanks for dropping by my weekly feature, Irreverent Reading! It's where my son and I read every word of the Monster Manual digging for nuggets, looking for oddities, and musing on possibilities. It's our first week of school at home and we are feeling the burn of reading so many Dragon listings in a row. … Continue reading Irreverent Reading: D&D 5E Monster Manual from Dragon (Brass) to Dragon (Silver) – The Macroeconomics of Treasure Eating
This, thankfully, isn't another guide about what to do when you're isolating yourself, or a FAQ about Sheltering in Place. Nor is it batch of handy tips about how to educate your child now that they are with you 24/7. There are plenty of those already. Man, just so many. To the above I say, … Continue reading This Is How We Live Now
Thanks for dropping by my weekly feature, Irreverent Reading! It's where we turn the Monster Manual upside down and give it good shake to see what falls out. Sometimes it's actual pages. Yes... as you can see with your own eyes, we are literally reading the cover off! An incredible amount has happened in the … Continue reading Irreverent Reading: D&D 5E Monster Manual from Dragon (Blue) to Dragon (White) – All the Chromatics
This is the first in my occasional "Gameable" series where I'll look at a work of fiction or non-fiction and talk about how to shape the content for interesting and exciting RPG play... Content advisory: lurid violence, torture, guns and more guns, also… racism and sexism, but perhaps less than you might think. In the … Continue reading Gameable Fiction – The Spider vs. The Empire State
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