It’s Monday morning and you’re hung over from that New Year’s Eve party? Pop 2 tylenols, drink water, and check out these links.
DNDMMSL 01-01-2008
To start 2008 with a clean bookmark folder I’ll link to everything I had bookmarked that I haven’t written about yet:

I don’t think The Black Mirror Project was meant to be [...]

Rannok, a Dungeon Mastering Reader recently said something so obvious that I had never thought of it:
Even for villains I take a shine to, I never invest too much time in creating them until AFTER they survive the first encounter with the party.
Darn PCs.
Since introducing an interesting villain in a game is never as easy [...]

Merry Christmas!
It will soon be safe to come within 5 miles of a shopping mall.  I wouldn’t recomment shopping for another week or so.  But when the merry shoppers will be kept in check by massive credit card bills you’ll finally be free to buy your gaming goods for 2008.

Critical Hits Gift Guide 2007 - [...]

Happy holidays to everyone!  Have fun with friends and family and don’t stress over gifts and shopping.
Thanks to all of you who read my ramblings diligently and special thanks go out to everyone who left a comment and discussed D&D on this website.  I have a blast when I read your thoughts and often laugh [...]

Meta-blogging alert
I need to share this with you:  the top Google search keywords through which people end up on Dungeon Mastering is “evil names” and “evil name generator”…  And these people end up on my semi-rant article about generators: WTF: evil name generator
What’s troubling is that over 1,000 people ended up on this site because [...]

Some things are inevitable
In no specific order…

Players will act unexpectedly.
Players will make out-of-character comments.
Memorable quotes will be uttered.
Players will think their characters are invincible.
Combat with über-villains will anti-climactically end in 2 rounds.
When attacking a PC with less than 10hp the DM will roll a critical hit.
Players will spend at least 1 hour trying to activate [...]