I prefer running tables in analog as much as possible, but generally run a hybrid of digital and analog. I totally use D&D Beyond as the Dungeon Master and never begrudge my players who use the app to keep the character sheet nearby. No digital shaming at my table! That said, I do love tangible…
Conor had never played D&D in person before. He decided to on his birthday. Plenty of hours in Baldur’s Gate 3, sure, but last Sunday at Fossil Cove was his first time rolling physical dice with strangers. His character, a rogue named Renzo, opened the campaign by betting another adventurer he could backflip off the…
I’ve been quaffing ales at Fossil Cove since it opened. It’s my local, the taproom in my own Woodland neighborhood, and I’ve watched it grow from a scrappy new brewery into one of the places that makes Fayetteville feel like Fayetteville. So when we started looking for a home for ODD’s “dungeons-in-a-bar” Sunday game, there…
Pictured above: My DND crew from El Dorado before a late night of gaming, pizza and Mountain Dew. I grew up in El Dorado, Arkansas — a sensitive, slightly dorky kid who loved two things in equal measure: running around the neighborhood playing fort with my friends (in the era of survivalist movies like Red…