Quick RPG Combats: Make hits mean something
As RPG game players, the Comics on the Brain staff has still been playing the good old Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 edition rules (and the […]
Role-playing games in general
Halflings: The toons of D&D
Comics on the Brain loves role-playing games. There’s nothing more fun than sitting around a table with some buddies and delving into an imaginary world […]
DC Comics: Discover the Sandman’s secret city
When working on the DC Universe, comic creators and the company itself are often very dodgy about exactly where some of their famous cities are […]
Buck Rogers XXVc: A Dragon’s glimpse of the future
In 1990, the makers of Dungeons & Dragons had a new game ready to unleash upon the world. The new RPG offered a new look […]
Basic Fantasy RPG: Old is new again
You can always count on Comics on the Brain to review something that’s well out of its publishing cycle. Comics from the 1970s, sure. Movies […]
Drawn to the future
Hopefully by now you’ve taken a look at my Daily Doodle, which is updated (almost) daily, and then incorporated into a slideshow for your enjoyment. […]
Meet Roland Van Owen, bane of necromancers
The ole Dungeons & Dragons crew has started a new gaming campaign, and that means I got a chance to roll out a new character […]
Pulp Adventures 2 — Mildred Bruce, speedster
Here we are again with a new edition of Pulp Adventures, my occasional look at topics for pulp stories, games and history pieces. This edition […]
Pulp Adventures 1 — The Tunnel of The Roots
Today I start another new series within my blog, though this one won’t be as frequent as Comics I Bought Today. I would set it […]
The power of good in your RPG
At my game recently, I’ve tried something completely new: I forced myself to include good-aligned creatures in the adventure mix.Now if you’ve played role-playing games […]
Everybody Vang Chung tonight
My ride to my role-playing game’s bi-weekly session is an opportunity for me, as Game Master, to prepare for it. RPGs, for the unititiated, are tabletop games where […]
Buck Rogers, meet Sneaky Pete
A few years ago, when the whole d20 craze was in full swing, I got involved in a play-by-post game of Buck Rogers XXVc. The […]
Spycraft: Agent Iceberg
My gaming group just started a new role-playing game: Spycraft. This game takes the standard D&D rules and transfers them to the modern world for […]
Painting the pulps — in miniature
Every once in a while, I long to get creative. I want to make something. A few weeks ago, I was sorting through some of […]
History Magazine: A Wellspring of ideas!
One of my current favorite magazines — and I do mean magazine, not comic book — is a bimonthly out of Canada called History Magazine. […]
GM Mastery: Holiday Essentials
Johnn Four, writer of the wonderful role-playing game e-book “NPC Essentials” and ocassional columnist for “Dragon” magazine, has just come out with a new product […]
The Hit List: Get descriptive with your DMing
The die bounces along the table and slows to a stop. “I rolled a 19,” the player says. “A hit, roll damage,” you, the DM, […]
Shh … it’s a secret! A Secret Six, that is!
Just like an earlie entry, we have a pulp magazine title, “the Secret Six,” that was copied, swiped or borrowed for a later comic book […]
D6 Space Aliens Vol. 1
West End Games’ “D6 Space Aliens Volume 1” features, among others, four space aliens designed by myself. Here’s what the promo copy says for the […]
Hiro and the Ghost Boxer
This is an illustration I made for a comic story. What’s the topic? Modern teenager Hiro is haunted by the ghost of an 1800s-era English […]