Super casual weekend post here, I’ve got my 90 minute Lasagna to prepare (Anyone want’s my recipe?) because tonight I have a special visitor! Extradited Montrealer and DMing blogger extraordinaire Yax is in town on vacation and I’ve invited him over for dinner.
Now either expect us to seal our power sharing deal for world domination or maybe we’ll just watch Hockey and have a few cold ones.
Stew!
In recent news, Martin Rayla of Treasure Table fame is coming back to the world of GM-focused blogging after a 1/2 year hiatus. His new project, a 8 people strong cooperative blog named Gnome Stew will launch in May. Talk about an awesome name!
I hope I leveled up enough during Martin’s hiatus to weather the new competition… 🙂
Paizo gets it good!
Also, my good friend Graham recently outdid himself in a Campaign log/Rant post about his last Pathfinder game and the weaknesses of the 1st adventure path that he found. I’m amazed at the energy he puts in hacking an adventure to make it better for his players. I’m having a hard time doing it…
The key message I take home from his post (other than Paizo dropping the crunch ball on a few overpowered encounters…) is that I have to be more carefull in choosing an adventure by actually reading it cover to cover before selecting it for my group.
An ill-devised creates more work to salvage and may end up causing you to stop caring about it and affecting your enthusiasm about it… and an unenthusiastic DM is always bad news.
Support your local Evil DM
While I have yet to read it, my buddy Jeff the Evil DM has two published RPG products under his belt. One called Broadsword that he co wrote sometime ago and another called World of Broadsword that’s all his.
I’m buying them as I write this. 8$ for a game and a world-book about Conan-style Barbarian mayhem, I don’t think I can go wrong!
Expect a quick review here soon!
All right, I need to start cooking!
So. How about them (local sports team in season)s?
Gnome stew? I’d always thought that gnomes went best in a hollandaise, you know, like in the old song “There’s no race like gnome for a hollandaise.”
Amusingly enough, the adventure he reviewed? It was one of exactly two adventures I have bought since the inception of D&D 3.x.
Actually, I take that back. I forgot that I also bought the omnibus edition of the OD&D Keep on the Borderland series.
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Maybe I’ll take that recipe. I’m on a diet all year, but it’s not so strict that I can’t have pasta every now and then. 🙂
“I’m an entree. Rarrr!”
Broadsword is definitely worth a look. I’m curious to read your review of it.
And congrats on being added to Jeff’s blogroll!
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@Michael: I’ve subscribed to Pathfinder and on the whole I like what they do with the stories. I’m more skeptical of some of the author’s grasp of the game’s crunch… but I now believe that D&D 3.x is a thankless mistress for adventure designers… Creativity takes a hard hit when comes the time to arrange the crunch.
No wonder some of the best adventures were written by those who created that edition of the game.
@Gazza: One Lasagna recipe post coming up soon.
@Brian: Hey Trollsmyth. Thanks for the links on your side, I tried commenting once or twice and the system ate my posts. I’m really happy to have showed up on Jeff’s blog. He’s the one who inspired my original Rule of Cool post that set me on the whole blogging path!
I’m done reading Broadsword and I’ve gone through most of World of Broadsword. I’ll put up a review of both soon, nice beer & pretzels game.
Thanks for the link, ChattyDM!
Gnome Stew is now 10 authors strong, and gearing up for a kickass launch in the next week or two.
As for competition, it might sound odd but I don’t look at Musings, Gnome Stew, Dungeon Mastering, Stupid Ranger, Roleplaying Tips and any other GMing sites I haven’t mentioned as being in competition. We’re all generous with link love and, in my experience, genuinely focused on creating fun, useful stuff for the GMing community.
If gold-plated Lexuses hung in the balance based on our web traffic numbers, maaaaybe we’d look at things differently — but I still think the cooperative-not-competitive spirit would be there. 😉
I agree Martin.
Best of luck, you have me as a subscriber for sure!
The RPG blogging sites are like a big party with small groups of people. All you have to do is move to a different group. There’s always an interesting topic going on.