This is my 100th post published on my RPG blog!

This is an exciting milestone.

I feel like a magic user who can cast a new level of spell!

I have to thank the D&D 40th Anniversary Blogging challenge for getting me back on track with my blog.

I find blogging about ideas and fleshing out concepts helps me to clarify and solidify them so that I can present them to players as a better DM.

Reading and commenting on so many other bloggers and G+ pages and Facebook RPG pages adds to the ideas.

I find that it is a banquet where there is so much to try or look at, there is no time to eat.

In other words, I am spending so much time gathering ideas and tables that I am not generating adventures and lists of pre-generated encounters. I like the idea of 3×5 cards with pre-generated encounters of whatever it is I have on my standard encounter tables, so it is ready to go. Don’t write on or destroy those cards. They can be re-used. I think one could have variations on an orc patrol. Have 6 variations of numbers, weapons, leaders and treasure. Roll 1d6 to see which one it is. Use pencil to check it off the players destroy it. For towns and cities and patrols on their frontiers, determine how much of the city guard is set aside for patrols and spec out one or more patrols. Instead of 3×5 cards, one can use a text file or spreadsheet to track the information.

My youngest is here to visit over his spring break and he, big brother, and I are wrapping up our last scenario and onto new things. I wish he was closer so we could do more. We had a lot of fun and hope to squeeze in another session before he has to go back to his mom’s.