by Kevin Pettway on November 9, 2009
Trying out yet another new bloggy thing here at HOLE called “Dear DM”. The idea is that you, the reader, will ask me, the DM, questions about any old thing that pops into your head, gaming related or not, and I will answer it. So, you guys ask your questions to the DM below, and [...]
by Kevin Pettway on September 25, 2009
I saved this for the Friday blog because it’s awesome, and I wanted you to have all weekend with it. This is an article I cadged out of my friend and fellow gamer Lloyd Brown, who among other things is responsible for much of the World of Kalamar campaign setting by Kenzer and Co. Enjoy! [...]
by Kevin Pettway on September 11, 2009
When I was… oh, in my early twenties… I had a D&D character named Santiago that I dearly loved. He was fast, light, happy, and witty, the perfect swashbuckler. He was heroic and good, the way I would like to be, if I weren’t constantly defeated by the banalities of the real world. He was [...]
by Kevin Pettway on September 4, 2009
Fourth edition D&D has one new thing in it that I love above all others, and that is the concept of minions. Minions bring the crazy, over-the-top bad-assery of movies and books home to your gaming table in a way no other game mechanic ever has. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, a [...]
by Kevin Pettway on August 21, 2009
The Friday Geek-out: The D&D game I run hit tenth level a little while ago. This was pretty significant for us since it is the first 4e campaign many of us have been involved in and the first one to reach double digit levels. At the point they hit ten I made them fight 400 [...]
by Kevin Pettway on August 14, 2009
Friday Geek-Out Because it’s come up recently and I was curious, I thought I’d ask what everyone’s opinions were concerning social lubricants while gaming. When I was young, all gaming pretty much went hand in hand with whiskey and pot, which led to some very memorable moments, and other moments which probably should have been [...]
by Kevin Pettway on August 7, 2009
A couple of weeks ago Roxanne (one of my D&D players) took some pix as we were playing the last big scene before the transition to paragon level. The giant army which had been bedeviling the party for months finally attacked. I thought it might be fun to show you guys what my gaming table [...]
by Kevin Pettway on July 31, 2009
I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who has been sticking it out with me through all the changes that the comic has undergone. Hopefully we should have seen the last of that for a bit (except for making the type a little bigger from now on) and the comic will continue to grow [...]
by Kevin Pettway on June 30, 2009
Unlike all those other webcomics, voting for HOLE every day at Top Web Comics every day won’t make you fat, club-footed, or impotent! The Writing on the Wall The heroes crept down the narrow stone stair keeping their backs firmly against the wall. No one had yet heard the bodies of the huge bat-things hit [...]
by Kevin Pettway on June 15, 2009
Today’s blog is the start of something a little different. Twice a month I’m going to be writing posts having something to do with the actual game of D&D. These posts will be collected and kept in a separate area of the site (in addition to being in the regular blog area) for the convenience [...]