http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Phillip+Tucker Computers and Technology Phillip Tucker Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=573297&ca=Computers+and+Technology Dwarves are one of the iconic races that people most commonly play. With their gruff demeanors, their thick beards, their short stature and hardy nature, they appeal to anybody who wants to play a tough and assertive character. But how do you help your players from playing a caricature of a dwarf? H... Computers and Technology Phillip Tucker Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=573306&ca=Computers+and+Technology Half orcs, the great barbarian race, the mean green fighting machines. Ugly as sin and as powerful as a runaway bulldozer, they are popular with everybody who wants to play a tough, rough and gruff pounder. Rarely employed for anything other than to punch and rend, half orcs are usually played as br... Computers and Technology Phillip Tucker Sat, 03 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=568585&ca=Computers+and+Technology Few styles of rp are as fun and rewarding as an excellently run horror game. Whether you’re taking your players through a zombie-ridden post-apocalyptic wasteland or plumbing the depths of a Gothic nightmare, striving for atmospheric chills and creeping out your players is as worthy an endeavor as i... Computers and Technology Phillip Tucker Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=565804&ca=Computers+and+Technology What is a role playing game without a villain? Whether it’s a necromancer busy at work in the local cemetery, a corrupt Baron levying too many taxes from the peasants, or a monster emerged from the caverns beneath the earth, your players will come back each night to your gaming table in the hopes of... Computers and Technology Phillip Tucker Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=565821&ca=Computers+and+Technology There’s a strange paradox to running a game: you want your friends to have fun, but you also need them to focus on the game at hand so as to immerse themselves in the story. A great DM knows when to let the players sit back and joke and laugh and goof off, and when to call their attention to the gam... Entertainment Phillip Tucker Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=565146&ca=Entertainment We all have particular qualities we want our perfect DM to possess: illimitable imagination, the desire to slave away at creating the perfect world, the ability to play a thousand different NPC’s convincingly, a vested interest in out having fun, and more. Yet one quality few mention is the ability... Entertainment Phillip Tucker Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=565153&ca=Entertainment As the DM, you are the final arbiter of life and death in the game. You decide when to fudge the die and say that killer blow goes wide, or to draw your thumb across your throat and say that the PC dies. You set the tone of the campaign, such that the players can either relax and know deep down in t... Entertainment Phillip Tucker Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=563626&ca=Entertainment Picture your typical fantasy setting. It’s positively medieval. You’ve got your castles, towns and villages, your deep forests and rocky mountain peaks, your flowing rivers and oceans. Everything is green, the sky is blue, and people ride around on horses wearing armor and swearing fealty to a King,... Entertainment Phillip Tucker Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=563648&ca=Entertainment The waitress in the inn common room. The owner of the General Store. The two guys on guard outside the merchant’s shop. Your world is peopled by thousands of unimportant NPC’s that your players will breeze right by. But every DM has faced that moment when, in the midst of dealing with the stableboy,... Recreation Phillip Tucker Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=562951&ca=Recreation Roleplaying is a game played through the mind’s eye. The DM is responsible for creating a vivid, palpable world that the players inhabit, but that’s easier said than done. How can you paint a scene with your words that is sharp, defined, rich and full of texture? Some DM’s will go on forever, descri...