Last week, Wizards of the Coast posted a contest on their community site (which many of us call Wizbook). The contest is still open for a few days (until December 21st actually) and so far only 2 entries were sent in, mine and my friend Dave: The Game of Critical Hits fame. Entrants can win […]
Tales of the City Within: a 5X5 Sandbox experiment.
Summer is upon us and that usually means that our bi-monthly D&D become less formal. Attendance tends to fluctuate wildly and our play sessions are usually shorter. In past years, we’ve used the summer period to test out new games or new PCs. This year, most of my players have manifested an interest to keep […]
Adventure Prep: The City Adventure
For my next D&D session (which is on Friday next week), I’ve decided to go for a city-based adventure. We’ve played 3 sessions into our new Primal/Within campaign and all those were focused on the Dungeon part of the setting and very little on the city (except to interact with Quest giving NPCs). I think […]
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 […]
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 […]
Chatty’s Mailbox: Writing an Adventure
As some of you may know, I just finished writing a draft for a D&D 4e adventure to be possibly published by Goodman Games (if the editor likes it). I’ve been posting vague updates on Twitter and Facebook and such for the last few weeks and some have been following it, being very supportive. So […]
Adventure Prep: Online D&D game trial
As discussed here, I’ve gotten a group of geeks together to experiment with playing D&D online. The first game (Friday night) is mostly about meeting with the players online, getting our various software working and maybe try playing a short D&D 4e Scenario. For the first game we settled for Gametable as the Virtual tabletop […]
Adventure Prep: Keeping it Simple and Stupid
All right so last night I sat down to prep for my game as I planned it here and here. My goal of the night was to be done with the first half of the adventure: Getting on the Fey Airship and reaching the player’s destination. I got out all the battle maps (I have […]
Adventure Prep: Fitting everything in one evening
Since I’m running a D&D 4e home brewed adventure for my gaming group this week, a lot of my creative energies will be focused there for the next few days. A guy needs his priorities straight and my D&D game is pretty much at the top of my ‘use of free time’ list. This means […]
Adventure Prep: Of Airships, Feys and Player Input
After a poisoned pillow fight, Slave apes and a librarian warrior chainmail bikini fetish, I promised my players that I’d write the last part of our 1st D&D 4e campaign and bring it to an apex of coolness. Since our next session is next week and the adventure is actually going to be a homebrewed […]
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