Category: Hot Buttons

Hot Button: Reading the Boxed Text

Posted by Walt Ciechanowski | Dec 18, 2008 | Hot Buttons

Back in the Reagan era, it was considered a...

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Hot Button: Homework Assignments

Posted by Walt Ciechanowski | Dec 9, 2008 | Hot Buttons

Traditionally, being a player is an hourly job...

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The 12 RPGs Every Gamer Should Play Before They Die

Posted by Martin Ralya | Nov 17, 2008 | Hot Buttons

Sometimes when I meet a fellow gamer for the first time, I’m...

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1e spotted alive and well in a livingroom in southeastern PA

Posted by Matthew J. Neagley | Nov 3, 2008 | Hot Buttons, Specific RPGs

Let me tell you about the schenanigans my friend...

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Hot Button: Distractions

Posted by Walt Ciechanowski | Oct 23, 2008 | Hot Buttons

What distractions do you tolerate at the gaming...

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Hot Button: Who Trumps Who?

Posted by Walt Ciechanowski | Sep 29, 2008 | Hot Buttons

Not long ago, I was surfing the boards (I...

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Hot Button: The Bait and Switch

Posted by Walt Ciechanowski | Sep 12, 2008 | Hot Buttons, Tools for GMs

If you’ve gamed long enough, you’ve...

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Hot Button: A Question of Alignment

Posted by Walt Ciechanowski | Sep 3, 2008 | Hot Buttons

Those of us that have grown up with the various...

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Hot Button: Keep Your Crappy Sci-Fi Out of My Fantasy!

Posted by Walt Ciechanowski | Aug 26, 2008 | Hot Buttons

For those of us playing Advanced Dungeons &...

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Hot Button: The Specialist

Posted by Walt Ciechanowski | Aug 20, 2008 | Hot Buttons

Tori sat at the head of the table behind her...

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Without which not

Posted by Scott Martin | Aug 12, 2008 | GMing Advice, Hot Buttons, Spotlight, Tools for GMs

Here’s something that is important for the...

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Hot Button: A Touch of Evil

Posted by Walt Ciechanowski | Aug 4, 2008 | Hot Buttons

I apologize for the almost exclusively...

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Hot Button: The GM’s Avatar

Posted by Walt Ciechanowski | Jul 23, 2008 | Hot Buttons

How many times have you been party to some...

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Hot Button: Whose character is it anyway?

Posted by Walt Ciechanowski | Jul 11, 2008 | Hot Buttons

When I ran my first 7th Sea campaign I...

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Hot Button: Show Me the Money!

Posted by Walt Ciechanowski | Jun 30, 2008 | Hot Buttons

Several years ago, a GM that I was acquainted...

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