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GAMER’S CORNER: Player Character Motivations

I get frequent e-mail questions about gaming from our Critical Hit listeners. Often they ask me my opinion on a game setting or a particular power in 4th edition; but there is one question that I get more than any others, and i...

Gamer’s Corner: Your Favorite Option Sucks!

I used to play a Halfling Monk back when I was in college. As it turned out I made a lot of thematic choices that made the character really powerful, which is nice. Unfortunately, as my poor karatehobbit found out, sometimes yo...

GAMER’S CORNER: The Evil Campaign

Here at Major Spoilers we get frequent e-mails from our readers and podcast audience. One of the questions we get most frequently for Critical Hit goes something like this: Hey guys, My friends and I decided that, for a change ...

Gamer’s Corner: Player Flexibility

One of the first lessons game masters learn is to be flexible. Whether it’s by observing a more experienced GM say ‘yes’ at all the right moments, or by doing some soul-searching after watching the collapse of...

Gamer’s Corner: Puzzles

I have a very organic approach to my role-playing games. As I run games for people and play in other people’s games I simply incorporate things that work into my style and eliminate things that don’t. One of the man...

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GAMER’S CORNER: Powercreep, When Awesome Gets Out of Hand

If you are like me, you are usually happy to see a new supplement come out for your favorite role playing game, new powers, new options, new directions. But what happens when the new options are strictly better than the ones in...

Games You Should Be Playing: Dogs in the Vineyard

Do you have what it takes to be God’s Watchdog in the West that never was?

GAMER’S CORNER: Annoying Gamer Habits, And What to Do About Them

Tabletop role-playing games, as well as LARPs are exercises in social contracts. Whenever a group of people sit down to play they all have to agree on the system, the arbitration of said system and on hundreds of unspoken rules...

Games You should be Playing: (New) World of Darkness

I have always been amazed at how isolated tabletop gaming groups can be. Since I started role playing I have met people who have never played anything other than second edition D&D, likewise I’ve seen groups who play ...