This one is easy. If it is the first game for people I don't know well and I am teaching them the game then I usually want to do it at m...

I have mentioned my Favorite Local Game Store, Games Plus , many times here. They have a games auction twice a year, in October and in March...

Busy day. spent the whole day gardening with my wife.  But I sneak out to go to my FLGS. Grabbed a hobby-store exclusive and regular co...

So. I got into it with one of the luminaries of the original RPG scene.  I am not going into any details (no need) save that I was a little ...

Ok, this really is less of a cheat than it might appear.  This issue was actually third on my list for this week, it gets promoted due to ...

Picked up my screen inserts for Mighty Protectors Referee's Screen a bit ago and they were a nice cheat sheet when working on character...

So no new monster today.  Been pretty busy this last week or two. But some things I am working are a couple of auction and Craigslist scor...

Contrary to some belief I am not an obsessive collector of games.  I have things I like and genres I follow and I usually stick to that.  Ou...

So I am slow at this. Sorry, been sick. The price point for the first releases of the next edition of Dungeons & Dragons has been leak...

Day 21: First time you sold some of your D&D books--for whatever reason. Not sure when the first time was.  I do recall though a gre...

Games Plus in Mount Prospect, IL Headed out to the Games Plus Game Auction tomorrow. Should be great!  I am looking to fill some...

I am HUGE advocate of supporting your FLGS and your local book store. If you have the choice, please always support your local stores when ...

and like the Realms. (I don't quite love them yet) I have always been a Greyhawk fan. Some of my very first games were looking fo...

Please don't forget that if you are in the Chicago area come by and play Ghosts of Albion with the author (that would be me)! http://w...

This link is making the rounds of Facebook right now, it is a good read and I am sure we have all been in the author's or the father'...

I was talking with a friend yesterday on how we have both used Amazon to buy a bunch of gifts in past years Christmas.  I sat down to do i...

I have waxed on about Borders and it's previous incarnation Waldenbooks before. http://timbrannan.blogspot.com/2011/04/o-is-for-otherwo...

I love my FLGS. I do.  I would rather buy from them for just about everything. But every once in a while I find something somewhere else I ...

So here is a story and it is a familiar one.   Young boy in the early 80's playing Atari and listening to Thomas Dolby gets the gift tha...

So since I am a member of the DriveThruRPG blog support program I get to pass on the savings to you my faithful readers. Here are this ...