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 […]
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 […]
Players Handbook 2 Preview: The Warden
Earlier in the month, I and a few other bloggers and podcasters were given copies of the upcoming Players Handbook 2 for the 4th Edition of Dungeons and Dragons. In exchange, we agreed to write about it and share with our readers. The Players Handbook 2 features 5 new races: Deva, Gnome, Goliath, Half-Orc and […]
Offline for some time
My son Nico will be undergoing ear surgery tomorrow. As things stand, I’ll likely be at the hospital for most, if not all of tomorrow (and the following night). I have a Players Handbook 2 preview planned for tomorrow but there’s good chances I won’t be there to respond to comments until late Friday night […]
Chatty’s Megadungeon: Foundations
Aptly enough, Monte launched his new Megadungeon project, have a look here. Like lightning, inspiration struck me over the weekend. Last Friday’s musings on Megadungeons has left my brain splattered all over the place with a ton of ideas for adapting the old concept to my current way of playing the game. I’ve got so […]
DM Chronicles: Session 11, Foray into the Well of Demons, part 2
See part 1 here. With all that shared narrative and roleplaying out of the way (just kidding…mostly), the players were ready to start exploring the Well of Demons. I must say that I really like this part of the adventure. It was the first one that reads like a true dungeon crawl. It’s made up […]
DM Chronicles: Session 11, Foray into the Well of Demons, part 1
Previously in Chatty’s game: Our heroes, with a treacherous doppelganger in their ranks, faced the Duergar leader in his abode. When failure seemed imminent, the wounded grey dwarf leader sought help from his minions stationed in a nearby room and like a horde they poured in and surrounded our wounded, tired heroes. Against all odds, […]
Catch that Wagon: Return to the Mega-Dungeon
I’ve been trying to write that post all day long and I keep getting distracted… I can feel it coming.. one of my dreaded/beloved consciousness-devouring, depression-killing creative surges… I have dungeons on my mind. More precisely, I think about Mega-Dungeons, a lot. Those huge, multi-leveled sprawling complex that were at the core of the first […]
Yet another PHB2 post (Better get used to it)
I join my voice to those who already have started bragging posting about having received pre-market copies of the Dungeons and Dragons Players Handbook 2 from Wizards of the Coast. As I was leaving with my family today for some early season Sugar Shacking (it’s not as dirty as it sounds, unless you eat without […]
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