I’m not dead… I’ve hit one of those deadly pockets of ‘work’ that drain all energy and creativity from your being. Plus my Friday game is not yet ready. If I finish early tonight, I’ll put up a short ‘ending your campaign’ post with tips. In the meantime, here’s something interesting that Tommi sent me. […]
Adventure Prep: Planning Ahead for the End
This series covers the thoughts that go behind my Adventure Preps. I don’t go into details as my players read this blog, but I try to showcase the key challenges and choices I face every time I sit down in the days before we play. Game week again! For those who don’t know, our group […]
Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: This is the End, Friend
No no, I’m not ending this series, no worries. As mentioned here, I’m exploring “Endings” as applied to RPG campaigns… Many long-lasting Role playing campaigns based on power-gaining PCs hinge around a progressively increasing threat that almost invariably escalate to the World Destroying level. The threat usually takes the form of an impeding Cataclysm that […]
Theme Week: Endings
As I was planning my blogging week I realized that I had a running theme going on. So much so that I decided to make it official! Since I’m planning the end of my D&D 3.5 campaign in the next 3 months, I decided to spend the week dealing with endings of all kinds: Today’s […]
D&D XP Interview: Andy Collins and Scott Rouse (Part 2)
(be sure to check out part 1 first!) Critical Hits: How did the 4e preview books do? (Worlds and Monsters, Races and Classes) Scott Rouse: They’re a little tough since I don’t think we marketed them right. They’re a great look inside the heads of the designers and developers. We wanted to make it a […]
GaryCon
Borrowed from The Evil DM’s blog (and adapted): World-Wide GaryCon this weekend! By now everyone I’m sure has heard of the passing of Gary Gygax. One of the best suggestions so far for a fitting tribute is GaryCon. Basically GaryCon is about gaming. This weekend take some time and play a game. Run a game […]
D&D XP Interview: Sara Girard & Rob Heinsoo
We sat down first to talk with the Sara Girard the Associate Brand Manager at Wizards, who works a lot on the marketing for 4th Edition. We started by bringing up our experience with our first chance at playing 4th Edition in the Dungeon Delve, and Sara mentioned that she is currently playing a Dragonborn […]
DM Chronicles, Session 12: The Great Game! Part 2
Life goes on… See part 1 here. So when I left off in part 1, Nogard had been accosted in his Dragon Temple by Plantagonox, the Juvenile Bronze Dragon errand boy of House Dallimothan (i.e. The Dragon-friendly Noble House of Ptolus). When ‘Gonox asked Nogard if he know about Xorvindaal, Nogard responded that he did […]
YouTube of the Week: A Giant Among Us Edition
Thanks Gary… Peace be unto you.
I just read from Dave that E. Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons died. Enworld is down, probably from traffic overload. But the story is creeping up on the net and CNN confirmed it. I owe my favorite hobby and way of life to this man. I would have wished to thank him in […]
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