Gaming with Google Groups

For this article, we'll focus on Google Groups as a means for you and your gaming group to conveniently communicate. Google Groups is Google's version of mailing lists and community forums as it serves both purposes. It allows members to email the entire group with a single email address. Alternatively, you can post messages directly to the Google Group, and they will be sent as emails to all members. In addition to basic mailing list functionality, your Google Group can be used as medium for basic play-by-post role-playing games.

Editorial: Life Changes the Gamer and the Game

There's that first moment after you've made the transition to adulthood, realizing that those high times of gaming days are changing or already gone. It's at that moment, or soon thereafter, that you begin to ask yourself a lot of questions about how enjoying role-playing games fits into your life as busy as it has become.

Sweet Spots for the Time-Crunched Gamer: MapTool

At R.K. Athey's request, this content has been relocated to his personal blog, Musings of a Role Playing Troll. ~Kristian

Gaming with Google: Article Series Outline

Throughout the series of articles, I'll be creating various setups across Google's wide range of services, beginning with a Google Group specifically for The Dice of Life. We'll assume the role of a gaming group to demonstrate exactly how these tools work together in an integrated manner as well as provide a tangible outcome as we progress through the series.

This article provides an outline of each of the services and systems and how we'll be utilizing them throughout the project.

1PageAdventures: The Spider Caves of Grinlok

In our first installment of 1PageAdventures, we venture into a dangerous cavern filled with spiders and little green men -- The Spider Caves of Grinlok!

R.K. Athey (RPTroll): Life as a Middle-Aged Gamer (with Kids)

At R.K. Athey's request, this content has been relocated to his personal blog, Musings of a Role Playing Troll. ~Kristian

Gaming with Google: Introduction

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A long while ago, I wrote an article on The Immaterial Plane about how to use Google's services and applications to enhance your gaming. Since then, many of Google's applications have either been discontinued (e.g. - Google Notebook) or have improved drastically. In some cases, newer services from Google provide new and improved services that can be used in new and creative ways. This series of articles will expand on that original article while featuring new use cases for these tools.

m.s. jackson (snikle): Focus is Lacking in This One...

I have been gaming since I was around twelve. I received the infamous "Red Box" D&D boxed set as a birthday gift from a good friend and I was immediately taken into the fold. Being moderately intelligent (my wife is smiling right now) and having a brain composed of about 97% creative brain matter, I loved the idea of halflings, dwarves, and monsters.

Kristian (Amaril): Late to the Game

I have a relatively short RPG gaming history. Still I certainly enjoy the hobby and struggle with juggling it into my schedule as best I can. In this introduction article, I discuss this struggle and the changes throughout my own history with RPGs that inspired me to start this blog.

Introductions

Greetings, everyone. Welcome to The Dice of Life, a new blog about how living an adult life influences your time for roleplaying games and how gaming influences your adult life. Our mission is to facilitate a continued, quality, RPG lifestyle for adults with responsibilities that warrant a significant amount of their time. As such, this blog is for those of you with full-time jobs, significant others, families, homes to maintain, social lives beyond gaming groups or any combination of the above.