See part 1 here. Of Kobolds and Rats As I mentioned in my pre-game post, the actual ‘dungeon’ of the adventure was a modified version of the Dungeon Master Guide’s ‘Kobold Hall’. In fact, I took Area 1, 3 and 4 and modified them to my needs. All kobolds became ratlings and I added a few other […]
Chatty’s Ptolus 4e Demo: A Tail of Two Shities, Part 1
(This series title was chosen by the players, you have been warned) As announced here, I organized a D&D 4e demo for 4 members of the Mindnight’s Lair local RPG forum. I didn’t want to do a big D&D 4e lecture upfront, and I didn’t have to, most players had either played it once before […]
Ptolus 4e Demo Game: Testimonials
Last night’s D&D 4e ptolus game was an absolute blast. Everything worked right and everyone seemed to have lots of fun. I’ll get to the game reports over the next few days but here are a few testimonials I lifted from Twitter and the Midnight Lair’s forum, both before and after the game. Walkerp (Before): […]
D&D 4e Ptolus: Chatty’s Demo Game
(This is the first post I write on my new mini-laptop that you all payed for by visiting this site, I thank you all!) Earlier this fall I attended a local gaming con called Draconis where I demoed a D&D adventure written by my friend Johenius. At the con, I met Erik, the owner […]
Primal/Within: Showdown at the Castle of the Overmind, Part 3
Part 1 and Part 2. Last Friday’s session was the final confrontation of the campaign. It was supposed to be an Epic battle between an Avatar of the setting’s sentient Dungeon and the PCs. I had a game plan, but it didn’t play out as I wanted…again. The fight ended up being hard and climactic… […]
Primal/Within: Showdown at the Castle of the Overmind, Part 2
See part 1 here. These last 2 sessions were marked with strong, not so positive emotions on my part. At the end of session one, I couldn’t believe that we played so little (we started at 7h00-7h30 and ended at around 9h45). At the end of session two, I was downright angry (and vocally so) […]
Primal/Within: Showdown at the Castle of the Overmind, Part 1
(This post covers my last two D&D 4e games) Last Friday we concluded our longest D&D 4e campaign yet, clocking it somewhere between 16 and 20 game sessions (almost one year). In order to make posts length easier to manage, here’s the ultra condensed story. Campaign Finale: Redux Using a mysterious 4 part key collected […]
Cross-Class Training II: The Teaching DM
Happy thanksgiving to all my American readers! Deep friend Turbaconducken anyone? I tend to have a one track mind, so while I’m done teaching my MS-Outlook/Time Management class, it’s still very much on my mind. Just so you know, things went so well that the College’s director offered me to teach another course right after […]
Cross-Class Training: GMs, Teachers & Managers
As many of you know, I’ve spent most of the last week preparing a 2 day MS-Outlook 2007/Time Management course that I’ll be teaching Tuesday and Wednesday of this week for a local College. While I was prepping for it, building an outline for each topics I decided to cover, I realized just how similar […]
Campaign Genesis: Gears of Ruin
I’m taking a short break from my course prep to share with you some of the brainstorming that is shaping my newest D&D 4e campaign. Last week, when I pre-pitched my D&D adventure ideas for Dungeon Magazine, one of the ideas that wasn’t retained ‘as is’ was a clockwork fantasy adventure. It’s not that the […]
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