Dead On The Kitchen Table - Part 4
by John 'Pender' Zarate-Khus
August 8, 2007

The bitch of finding a replacement gamer in your area.

It all started – well, shit, it actually started years ago and involved the Filipino mafia from Northern California, a U-Haul, a doomed affair and a late night call to borrow the infamous 9mm Baretta pistol – and to be truthful, for me it started when I first discovered Penthouse magazine under my brother’s mattress.

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Dead On The Kitchen Table - Part 3
by John 'Pender' Zarate-Khus
May 16, 2007

Player character death never gets old. 

Each time it is different. Sometimes you can see it coming. Other times it happens so fast you had no idea it was that close. 

Just this last week I had a player of mine start out with the toughest character in the group, but before the evening ended – the character was dead.

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Dead On The Kitchen Table - Part 2
by John 'Pender' Zarate-Khus
March 1, 2007

If God were a human, he would want to be a Dungeon Master.

Why not?

I know if I were God, I would be a DM.

The ancient Greeks thought so. Their gods were the gods that had it all – power, wisdom, vanity to a fault – literally. And yet they would spend their Age of Power playing with humanity. I don’t think it was by chance that the ancient Greeks had a 20-sided die long before Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson ever existed.

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Dead On The Kitchen Table - Part 1
by John 'Pender' Zarate-Khus
December 29, 2006

“Your group proceeds down the darkened hallway when you hear a rumbling. The stone beneath your feet shakes. Dirt and dust falls from cracks that begin to appear. Before you can react, the ceiling collapses – the trap has sprung! Everyone roll a saving throw to see if they are caught in it.”

The rattle and clatter of dice.

Silence.

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