Alex Keane

Lover of Fiction and Games

Tag: blog

  • For the Love of Amateurism

    For the Love of Amateurism

    Today I want to talk about a topic that I think affects those of us with a TTRPG habit quite a lot. That’s holding ourselves to a professional standard in everything we do. We see it in how hard it can be to get a player to take that first leap into the Game Master’s…

  • My Experiences as Designated DM, Part 1

    My Experiences as Designated DM, Part 1

    Header Image Courtesy of Thomas Dippel licensed under CC BY 2.0 As I was moving some boxes, I came across the external hard drives I had in college which contain my notes from the RPGs I played in college with my first gaming group. Which got me started thinking about all the DM lessons I…

  • Cover of 13th Age, Showing Heroes Surrounded By Monsters

    Experience with the 13th Age Playtest

    It’s been a while since the last gameplay update I made that wasn’t also mainly a review of the module or system I used. On Saturday night, my group tried out the playtest for the new edition of 13th Age. We handled both the creation of our characters and playing through an adventure during a…

  • A Return to Blogging

    A Return to Blogging

    In the past few weeks, roughly since the mid-November changes at Twitter, my own internet habits have seen the most major shift since I got a smartphone in 2012 (I got one late, I know) or since my social media experience moved from discussion boards and MySpace to Facebook when I started college. I’ve been…