Next DC animated movie after Green Lantern is Superman/Batman Renamed: The SciFi Channel will become the Syfy Channel in June 2009 Arcane Power excerpt on Rituals, including Unseen Servant Design & Development: The Deva (Pronounced, DAY-vuh) (sub required) Beer2-D2 Stan Bush’s “The Touch” — free download available for Guitar Hero World Tour soon. Horde? Alliance? Dew. […]
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War in Low Level Campaigns
Most gamers tend to think of fantasy warfare as a clash that centers on heroes of outlandish skill, immense power, and blistering charisma. Wading through common soldiers to find other champions is equally pervasive in literature and cinema (Lord of the Rings, Troy, etc.). To that extent, DMs reserve massive warfare for characters of mid to high level. This article intends to look at a few ways of showcasing low level PCs in large scale warfare and the inherent advantages to taking your game in a warfare based direction.
Robin Laws’ Revisited: Part 7, Running your Game
Way back when, I started a series of posts where I would review and comment on Robin D. Laws excellent GMing book called Robin’s Laws of Good Mastering. My main goal is to compare his thoughts on GM to mine and see how the 7 year old book stayed relevant today. My objective isn’t to […]
PHB2 Roundtable: Races and Other Topics
As with yesterday, I’ve (virtually) assembled a roundtable of bloggers who have delved into the Player’s Handbook 2 (released today). This time, we’ve taken a look at the Races of the PHB2 (like we did with the PHB), along with two of the other topics therein.
Chatty’s Megadungeon: Building the Font of Sorrows
A word of warning to my players, this post will reveal the first dungeon of our next campaign. First up, a big hello to Grognards and other readers coming from the Old School side to check things out. I may talk about D&D 4e a lot, but I do love dungeons a lot! All right, […]
Chatty’s Mailbox: Helping out a New DM
This morning I had the pleasure to get an email from a reader asking me a few questions to help him out in his D&D 4e DMing. As usual, I love doing that and it creates instant fresh content of interest for other readers in a similar situation. Win/win says I. Let’s dive into it […]
PHB2 Roundtable: Classes
When the 4e PHB launched, we held a roundtable discussion of the different classes in the book. Well, now that PHB2 is about to be released tomorrow, we wanted to take a look at those races in a similar format. To accomplish this, I contacted several of my fellow bloggers who had received early preview copies (and have had plenty of chance to pour over it) in order to see how they felt about the classes.
Inq. of the Week: Power Sources?
Hopefully Dave’s curiosity was answered when he wanted to know how many of you went to see Watchmen. 65% of you went to see it opening weekend, while 23% didn’t see it that weekend but plan on seeing it, leaving only 13% who don’t plan on seeing it at all. I saw the movie at […]
Chatty’s Megadungeon: The Primal Dungeon and The City Within
Following a surge of interest about classic fantasy Megadungeon campaigns on the blogsphere, I’ve mused about re-visiting the concept in D&D 4e. Then, a few days later, I laid the foundations of how I would go at making a 4e Megadungeon campaign. Today I thought I’d share with you some of the work that my […]
Adventure Prep: Hacking the Written Word
Some time ago, I used to blog about how I prepared my bi-monthly games and posted them before my actual game sessions. It was a writing challenge because I was trying to write something significant for my readers while limiting spoilers for my players (most of whom are readers of this here blog). I stopped […]
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