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Throwing It In, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Go With the Flow

Several years ago, I ran a 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons game where I learned a valuable lesson about game prep. Even though I’ve always been an off-the-cuff DM, I still did hours of prep work for every session, creating massive decision trees of how the adventure would progress based […]

Throwing It In, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying …

Episode 2: What Makes a Game Fun aka How to Make Literally Dozens of Dollars a Year

Welcome to the Gamer’s Tavern. Have a seat and join us for You All Meet in a Tavern Episode 2, “What Makes a Game Fun” aka “How to Make Literally Dozens of Dollars a Year” with your hosts, Darryl Mott Jr. and Ross Watson. Ross spent the first half of […]

Episode 2: What Makes a Game Fun aka How to …

Why We Game – Editorial

In last week’s podcast, John Kovalic made a point that I feel really should be explored more with some actual data to back it up. Gaming has one of the biggest returns on the dollar for entertainment time of almost any other hobby. I can honestly only think of a […]

Why We Game – Editorial

Why I’m Doing This Podcast

I talked a little bit about this in Episode Zero, “Pilot”, but I wanted to go into a little more detail. It’s also been at least 2 1/2 liters of bourbon since I edited the episode, so I can’t remember which points I talked about. I also talked about it […]

Why I’m Doing This Podcast

Episode One – Why We Love Gaming, aka “I want to be charming”

Welcome to the Gamer’s Tavern. On the first official episode of You All Meet in a Tavern, your hosts Darryl Mott Jr. and Ross Watson discuss what it is exactly about gaming that draws us to the hobby. Our guests this evening are Bruce Cordell (legendary game designer of many […]

Episode One – Why We Love Gaming, aka “I want …

Welcome to the Gamer’s Tavern

It is with great pleasure that I announce the official launch of Gamer’s Tavern. This website is the central point for what will hopefully be many projects about tabletop gaming. Many of you are probably here from my column on Ain’t It Cool News, and I welcome you to what […]

Welcome to the Gamer’s Tavern

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In the corner sits a man dressed in all black…

Hello gamers, I’m Darryl Mott Jr. also known as Abstruse, and I write the Tabletop Gaming column for Ain’t It Cool News. I created this site to expand on the news and reviews of games I do for Ain’t It Cool News. I also wanted to provide a home for […]

In the corner sits a man dressed in all black…

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