Dungeons are often maligned as an old fashioned way to do a D&D adventure. Monte loves dungeons, and thinks they are a great way to tell an adventure. In 3e DMG, dungeons are cool because if you step back from them and look at them in the abstract, they’re just adventure flowcharts.
Archives for 2009
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-07-04
Big Weekend for Dominion: It won both an Origins Award and the Spiel des Jahres Top 20 sites on the RPG Bloggers Network Cole of PvPonline serves up some wonderful DM advice (via Asmor) “My favorite 9 non-RPG geek shirts”: http://geek6.com/u/8 #4 is my favorite (via @joshgeeksix) Monthly DDI update hitting July 7th: http://tinyurl.com/ltcgbt – […]
Friday Chat: Dealing with Aggressive/Jerk Players
A few weeks ago I got a very interesting letter. I joined my past 2 live tabletop campaigns as a new player joining a pre-established group of players for a new campaign. In both, I’ve encountered a particularly nasty type of player that has caused no end of strife and grief, as follows: 1. Their […]
Origins 2009: Exhibit Hall in Words, Pictures, and Sounds
One of the biggest draws of any big game convention is the exhibit hall, and Origins is no exception. This year saw a return to using the entirety of the exhibit hall for booths. There’s always plenty for gamers to spend their hard earned cash on, and this year saw a number of new releases, as well as some hidden gems recommended to me by other show-goers that may have been around previously.
One Page Dungeon Winners Announced
The winners of the One Page Dungeon contest have been announced over at ChattyDM and Old Guy RPG Blog. I was honored to serve on the judging panel, and I’m glad to give a hearty congratulations to the winners. You can read Alex’s recap of why he voted the way he did on individual entries. […]
Tales of the City Within: Session 1, Part 2
See part 1 here. (After writing part 1, I realized that I got the order of how each of the four plots were introduced wrong. Instead of correcting it, I’ll adjust the tale accordingly. Let’s just assume that the PCs convinced the Drow to give them a few hours’ respite). When the PCs, standing on […]
Origins 2009: D&D 4e Villains Seminar
At Origins 2009, Rodney Thompson and Robert Schwab hosted a seminar (courtesy of the RPGA) about designing villains for your 4e game. The seminar described the process of doing the villain design, from role in the campaign to touching on some of the mechanics you might use. Here’s my notes from the session.
One Page Dungeon Winners!
What started as a crazy idea in the last few weeks of Winter has finally come to its conclusion. Since late May a panel of 6 judges: Chgowiz, Dave: the Game, Sham, Amityville Mike, Alex Schroeder and myself have slogged through 112 entries and we’ve finally arrived with the final results. If you are curious […]
Origins 2009: Ultimate Dungeon Delve
A few weeks back, I spotted on Twitter a new D&D event that would be held at Origins. It was the Ultimate Dungeon Delve, a timed test of our ability to get through 6 combat encounters with a 6th level team of 5 adventurers that we bring to the table. I immediately recruited Krog the spreadsheet barbarian and Geek’s Dream Girl to help me put together a team.
YouTube Tuesday: Darkness Falls Across The Land Edition
Say what you will about the man, he did give us dancing zombies, which lead to the above.
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