A few weeks ago while mulling the jumble of ideas that was to become my new Primal/Within D&D campaign, I made the discovery of the One Page Dungeon template. I was blown away at the sheer brilliance and simplicity of the concept and I’ve already used it a few times, including for my next game […]
Primal/Within Chronicles: The Crypt of the Thief-Prince, Part 3
See part 1 and 2. Fast-talking the Cursed Prince! The Royal Crypt featured 2 levels of mezzanine overlooking a central ‘court’. The Court had a Huge stone throne sporting a sculpted effigy of the Dwarven Exiled prince. Support columns dotted the whole chamber. On the throne stood a dark, spectral form screaming ‘Lies, all LIES! […]
Primal/Within Chronicles: The Crypt of the Thief-Prince, Part 2
See part 1 here. Mines of Shadows. The PCs took the Teleportal and found themselves on a Magic Circle in what was obviously a Mine (I used D&D’s Fantastic Location Mithril Mines map). As soon as they arrived, they knew something wasn’t right. Broken bodies of workers and guards were lying everywhere. The magical light […]
Primal/Within Chronicles: The Crypt of the Thief-Prince, Part 1
This is a recounting of my new homebrewed D&D 4e campaign called Primal/Within. I describe what my players did and I pepper it with some DM/Designer insights. The PCs are level 7. They are usually multi-parters as I try to keep each post under 1500 words. Enjoy! Yesterday, three of my friends from my usual play […]
Dungeon Week at Musings!
I love me a dungeon! I really do! Starting with the gaming reports of the first session of my Primal/Within campaign, all posts of this week will relate to Dungeons and the goodness that comes from them! Regardless of the version of D&D we favour, most of us share a love for this archetypal adventure […]
Chatty’s Review: Monte Cook’s Dungeon a Day
The Capsule Review Monte Cook’s Dungeon-a-Day subscription-based website presents a fully playable OGL 3.5 Megadungeon being progressively built by publishing a new encounter area each day. The concept of the adventure module is brought to a whole new level through the power of Hyper-linking, high quality art and pictures of gorgeous 3D models of dungeon […]
My Tribute to Mr.Arneson
I didn’t know much about Dave Arneson, only that he was the co-creator of D&D and that there was some big issue about giving him the credit he was due. I’m not much of an history buff about D&D so I never got the full story. Most of what I do know about Mr. Arneson […]
Chatty on the Net
It seems I see people talking about my alter ego a lot lately. Not that I mind at all, I mean who doesn’t like to see his name or alias turn up stuff on Google? Well this week, I’ve made an appearance on two websites. First, last Tuesday night I was invited to participate in […]
The Primal/Within Campaign: The Dungeon as a NPC
As someone told me earlier today, back to our original programming! With my last mini-campaign done and completed, I’m getting ready to start playing my new homebrewed campaign centered around the Primal Dungeon and The City Within. One of the key challenges that I’ve found with campaigns with an overarching story arc is that I […]
A Wry Look at un-News and the Speed of Gossip
I won’t comment much on Wizards’ decision to pull PDF from 3rd party vendors, many others, more apt at ranting or having a better perspective than me, have already done so. I’ve stopped trying to understand WotC’s business practices and I do like any prudent customer’s does, if it’s a good product, I’ll buy […]
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