Hi all! This is a bit of a meta post, about my blog itself. I started Online Dungeon Master back in 2010, when I was fairly new to Dungeons & Dragons and was starting to run D&D games online. I �...
http://onlinedungeonmaster.com/2014/01/15/moving-my-board-game-blogging-to-clay-crucible-games/
If you see me posting in the comments here on the blog or over on Twitter, or on EN World or the like, you may notice a new avatar. Since shortly after I started the blog, I had been using … Co...
http://onlinedungeonmaster.com/2011/10/10/new-onlinedm-avatar-courtesy-of-james-stowe/
Last night I went back to my old game for the first time in a year and a half: Magic: The Gathering. Yes, I know it’s widely derided in the RPG community, and ever since I started playing D&D I...
http://onlinedungeonmaster.com/2011/05/21/recruiting-rpg-players-via-magic-the-gathering/
I put up a post a few months back that talked about the gaming closet – the fact that I didn’t really talk to my co-workers about my gaming hobby. I felt a little bad being closeted like that...
http://onlinedungeonmaster.com/2011/01/25/out-of-the-gaming-closet/
Here’s a question for the role-playing game community: Do you hide your hobby from your non-gamer friends / colleagues? Friends who play games – well, obviously they know that you play D&D or...
http://onlinedungeonmaster.com/2010/08/16/are-you-in-the-rpg-closet/
There was a post on EN World asking how people have taught the rules of D&D Fourth Edition to new players. I shared my story there, and since it ended up being a pretty long reply, I thought it...
http://onlinedungeonmaster.com/2010/07/10/eat-what-you-kill/
As I mentioned in my introductory post, I had tried playing a little bit of D&D years ago, under Third Edition (3e) rules. My wife and I bought the 3e starter kit and later the core books (Play...
http://onlinedungeonmaster.com/2010/06/28/treasure-from-the-past/
My name is Michael, and I am a beginning Dungeon Master (DM) for Dungeons and Dragons, fourth edition (D&D 4e). This blog will serve three purposes: Chronicle my development as a DM, with a foc...
http://onlinedungeonmaster.com/2010/04/28/brief_history_dming/