Latest Blog Posts for The Red Box Blog

• Site News: Unwanted Sabatical
  on Mar 20, 2011 in Site News
  The site has been inactive for the past week because I have been both sick and overwhelmed with school work. The sick part is mostly fixed now, but school is just getting worse. As much as I enjoy writing for … Continue reading →...
• My Life in Polyhedrons – Gail the Thunderwoman
  on Mar 12, 2011 in My Life in Polyhedrons RPGs About Me D&D
  By the middle of 1999 I had been trying for way too long to get a campaign going, and was fed up with trying. I looked to get my gaming fix via online forums (I don’t mean play by post, … Continue reading →...
• How You Can Earn a Million GP From Writing
  on Mar 11, 2011 in Dungeons and Dragons RPGs copy D&D rpgs writing
  There is a trend going around gaming blog lately where various authors are writing attention grabbing headlines as a joke, ostensibly as a way to increase the OSR. I am not going to give you any hot elf chicks, seeing … Continue reading →...
• How to Avoid Edition Wars and Be a Happy Gamer
  on Mar 10, 2011 in 4E Dungeons and Dragons RPGs D&D edition wars rpgs
  Yesterday I was writing about how my experience fighting the “edition war” that Star Wars had when the new trilogy began soured me on the whole series, turning me from a guy who had a Star Wars wedding into a … Continue reading U...
• Old School, Meta-Communities and Fan Wars, Oh My!
  on Mar 9, 2011 in Dungeons and Dragons RPGs D&D edition wars rpgs
  Morrisonmp over at The Rhetorical Gamer made a post yesterday somewhat inspired by my post on creating a more marketable rpg. Morrisonmp wrote about his unwanted disdain for older D&D editions, a feeling that meta-community discussions were kill...
• Is a More Marketable RPG Even Possible?
  on Mar 8, 2011 in RPGs D&D rpgs rules
  Greg over at Errant has a very excellent post about how the various styles of game design impact the marketability of our hobby. He defines the three styles of design as Classic Games – which the mass market does not … Continue reading &#...
• D&D Crossword #2 – Solution
  on Mar 7, 2011 in crossword
  Here is the solution to the puzzle I posted yesterday. The image is thumbed to avoid spoiling those who might not want to be. Click on it to enlarge Have an opinion about this article? I love comments. Please feel … Continue reading →...
• A Game in Ten Laws
  on Mar 7, 2011 in 4E Dungeons and Dragons RPGs
  Some areas of science have a great beauty and elegance in how the laws which govern those areas can be stated. This doesn’t necessarily make that science any less interesting or less powerful, nor does it mean that you have … Continue rea...
• D&D Crossword #2
  on Mar 6, 2011 in crossword B-Series D&D rpgs
  This week’s crossword theme is Basic D&D. The solution will be posted tomorrow.
• My Life in Polyhedrons – Joe the A&A Guy
  on Mar 5, 2011 in My Life in Polyhedrons RPGs About Me Axis and Allies Board Game
  When I quit Tom’s game my first instinct was to go looking for a group at the same place I had found Tom, at Warp 1 (a local game store). Unfortunately this time things didn’t go so well, and there … Continue reading →...

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