The Rusty Battle Axe

After running 46 sessions of the Montporte Dungeon Campaign with three different rule sets (in succession, not concurrently!), I am think...

Dungeon Explorer I am a firm believer that the "3 E's"-- Exploration, Encounters, and Extraction --do a pretty good job of...

Here are some things that our Monday Night Gaming Group tends to hand wave (or ignore altogether): What's Your Alignment? In most o...

I had a groovy gaming year in 2014 . With the exception of a rough patch at the end of the summer when work kept me from gaming, it was an...

I decided that when I restarted my Rusty Battle Axe blog, I was not going to do reviews. I will, however, occasionally highlight a product...

No Frilly Elven Characters on this List Not much of a post. Just a list of characters that I have played in the last five years or so. Y...

I have the feeling that when most people hear the word "improvise," they think of something that is the opposite of planning, as...

Everyone in our Monday Night Gaming Group enjoys being involved as a player and as a GM. This means that when you are a player, you are also...

We are closing in on Session 30 of the Montporte Dungeon Campaign and I feel like I can now speak with a bit of experience about designin...

"Intuitively obvious to the casual observer" as my college physics text book would note (after a page of calculus) James Mal (...

Blogging was on the back burner for the month of November. The last big tasks of our merger were on my plate, which included me moving int...

I have busy this summer, way too busy. Work has been really hectic, which is not good (except in the sense that I have a job, for which I am...

First off, I am really not sure why I blog. So feel free to stop reading at this point. However, lack of content has never held back befor...

I have been running the Montporte Dungeon Campaign more often than I expected, not that I am complaining as it has been a groovy time. Ho...

"The first day on my vacation, what I did on my summer vacation, the first day on my vacation, I woke up. Then, I went downtown to lo...

I am frequently struck by the similarities between playing music and playing games. You need the right stuff--so there is a lot shopping a...

Flight or flop? I make no claims to expert knowledge on any subject, save procrastination (someday I will get around to writing a post a...

Take one of the older editions of Dungeons & Dragons (or your favorite retroclone), strip away everything except the one most fundame...