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 brutal thugs. But […]

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 it can be hard to achieve. Nothing […]

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 […]

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, one […]

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, who rules over a small aristocracy and […]

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, describing every […]

There is a galaxy of different weight loss programs, all of them shrieking their own personal universal truths, demanding that you jump through their hoops in order to lose that weight, get rid of that belly, slim those thighs, vanish that swinging fat from your underarms, tone that booty, suck in the gut, anything and […]

You’re a dude. Or a girl who acts like one. Which means you act in a certain way, have certain idiosyncratic approaches to eating and nutrition that most likely hamper and hinder your desire to lose weight. What are you doing wrong? Why is it so hard to shed those stubborn pounds? Maybe your habits […]

Walk into a gym, and you’ll see hundreds of machines, dumbbells, cardio machines and more. A glittering array of possibilities, a thousand potential workouts and exercises that you can do if you have the expertise and knowledge to stitch together the perfect workout. But what if you don’t want to deal with all that complexity, […]

If you remember the 1980’s, you’ll recall how dominant the Russians and Eastern Bloc countries were in all the international sports. Images of iron men, of machine-like strength and efficiency, of these robot giants of muscle and metal who could beat anybody at anything abounded. Even now, a couple of decades later, Russia still has […]