After a heated debate at today’s Gloomhaven game about the effect of rolling modifiers, I decided to get to the bottom of the matter. The debate centers on whether rolling modifiers added to your attack modifier deck help or hinder you. One side felt that the modifiers help your attacks while the other felt it […]
Role Playing Games as Inherently Game Design
I was recently watching a video “Why did TSR Hobbies publish Advanced Dungeons and Dragons?” by Nicholas Bielik and one of the things he claimed coalesced a bunch of different ideas about role-playing games that I’ve had over the decades that I’ve played them. Role-playing games are not, were not, and never will be complete […]
Getting Started With Your Mailing List
Starting and maintaining a mailing list is some of the first advice new authors receive, after “paying for a nice cover” and “hiring editing services”. What a mailing list actually entails usually isn’t detailed and I found the specifics somewhat confusing, so I wanted to write up what I’ve figured out so far. The general […]
My Experience Writing Serialized Web Fiction
I’m 2 months into publishing my fiction in a serial format and thought I’d post a few thoughts about my experience so far. There are writers with *FAR* more experience in the format than myself, but my hope is that this can be useful to people at an earlier stage. Experts sometimes develop a novice […]