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The Gassy Gnoll: Zen Gaming (Gaming Unplugged 2014)
What is gaming to you? How do you define that experience for yourself? How do you define it for others? Is it possible to share your experience? Or is it only possible to share in *THE* experience?...
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The Gassy Gnoll: A Cult Above (Repost)
Recently I was chatting with a friend of mine (hey Mike!) and the topic of cults came up. Yes, we have strange conversations. But it made me wonder about them in gaming terms. Should I be using them...
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The Gassy Gnoll: The Importance of Quiet
Recently I had an opportunity to watch The Last Samurai on television and came to an interesting conclusion… Though we often focus on the loud and flashy aspects of gaming, such as combat, magic, and...
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The Gassy Gnoll: Ideas Blown On The Winter Wind
As this Gassy Gnoll sits in his home in Colorado today hiding from a biting wind and below freezing temperatures, he wondered at the winter weather. Beyond the Frozen Wind adventure from Rite...
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The Gassy Gnoll: Learning to Embrace My Fickle Dice
The Gassy Gnoll is of Irish descent. (With a name like Fitzpatrick, it’s probably not shocking!) But he’s not the luckiest bastard on the planet and is often quoted as saying “If it weren’t for bad...
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The Gassy Gnoll: Gamer Mind as Strange Cesspool of Correlation
It should come as no surprise to anybody that my mind is crowded with tidbits (some useful, most not) from all the parts of my life. Movie quotes compete with song snippets, which fight for dominance...
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The Gassy Gnoll: Some Hard Decisions
We’re all struggling with something. Usually multiple somethings. And usually we keep on keepin’ on simply because there’s no way to stop. Image Credit: Waving White Flag Clip Art from Vector.me (by...
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The Gassy Gnoll: When Did It Become Us vs. Them?
Recently I was introduced to the idea of a “DM Kill Board” where DMs or GMs could jot down the particulars surrounding the death of a PC. Level and class details are intermixed along with the...
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The Gassy Gnoll: Fireball, Fireball, Fireball!
Why do I feel like the Most Interesting Man in the World this week? (Thank you Dos Equis.) Might it be that I started playing a new wizard in 4e D&D last weekend and the first spell I selected was...
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Heroic Demolition
What is it about heroes and leaving a wake of destruction in their path? Watch any comic book movie and I swear that the cost of property damage has to tick upwards every time there’s a fight. And how...
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