I first encountered the “dungeon delve” at the exact same time I first encountered 4e. 3 linked encounters, designed to be played in a relatively short amount of time (45 minutes at the conventions). Dungeon Delve (the book) is full of them, one for every level, designed for quick pick-up games or for when you […]
YouTube Tuesday: It’s Halloween and These Have Zombies in Them Edition
Yep, I got nothing this week. These are both Thriller-related, so why not?
Preview: “Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons”
In previous editions, metallic dragons were good aligned, meaning that a DM would have to either create reasons that that the dragons were violently opposed to the PCs, or just ignore the “Always Lawful Good” and similar alignments. This default assumption has changed a bit, tossing many of the metallic dragons squarely into the Unaligned category. Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons provides a variety of motivations for metallic dragons and gives you some new metallics for good measure.
YouTube Tuesday: Obi-Wan Uncensored Edition
NSFW language. Real quick but great.
4th Power Project: Skills
I’ve got some core classes (which are pending some revisions), some at-will powers, and some other powers. Next step is relatively simple (but not without some thought): skills. While skills are not trivial in 4e, they play a much greater role in modern games, and have a greater variety. This is not just because of […]
Statement from Wizards of the Coast Regarding Fansite Toolkit
Months back, Wizards of the Coast released their “Fansite Toolkit”, essentially a package of images that could be used for bloggers and similar in exchange for agreeing to, well, a lot of terms about citations, trademarks, and usage. The release raised a lot of questions among the potential audience for it (bloggers) and so we emailed Wizards of the Coast to get some clarification. They provided us two short answers, which don’t cover everything, but do provide some information.
Inq. of the Week: Gaming Women
Conventional wisdom and surveys show that women are in the minority among gaming groups of all kinds, but I think the ratio is starting to shift. We touched on the issue almost three years ago (to a bit of controversy) but I’d like to pose a slightly less loaded question…
4th Power Project: Classes, Part 3 (Other Powers)
The beginnings of some at-will powers were posted last week– not all of them by any means, but I figured it was a start. Now as I mentioned then, at-will powers should come up fairly often, and be the stand-bys. The other powers are Per Scene (formerly Per Encounter) and Per Session (formerly Per Day.) […]
Our Ladies of Sorrow: Modern Gaming, Scary Women
I’m always on the lookout for solid modern adventures. But many of them fall into the more cinematic style where everyone is an action hero, spy, or both, thus making the subset of adventures I’m looking for even smaller. That’s why I was happy to be provided with a review copy of Our Ladies of Sorrow, a new adventure collection for Call of Cthulhu RPG by Miskatonic River Press.
Interview: Matt James, Co-Author of “Monument of the Ancients”
“Monument of the Ancients“ was published in Dungeon #170 and is an adventure set in the Forgotten Realms for 13th level characters. The capsule description is thus: If myth and legend are to be believed, the antediluvian monument defends a region of Faerûn where the boundary between the world of Toril and the Elemental Chaos […]
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