One more significant preview of 4e D&D has been released before a lot more is given away at the D&D Experience. The entire Rogue class has been posted for your amusement/derision. Just a few things that stood out to me: No more rolling for hit points. You get a fixed amount at first level, and […]
Updating the social contract
Last night we spent the evening playing Magic the Gathering because 2 of our players were missing. Our current social contract stipulates that if one player is missing, we play but if two aren’t there, we postpone the game. We’ve had this “clause” for about 5 years and it’s worked pretty well. However, we’ve had […]
Fantasy Flight Games Continues Fantasy/Sci-Fi Domination by Partnering with Games Workshop
This is a pretty big deal. To back up a second… Games Workshop has recently been working on consolidating their product line down to their core, while expanding their line of retail shops. This means they were focusing their efforts on selling Warhammer Fantasy Battles, Warhammer 40k, and Lord of the Rings. However, they did […]
Robin’s Laws Revisited: Part 3, Picking up your set of rules
This post is part of a series that explores Robin Laws’ seminal work on GMing, Robin’s Laws of Good Gamemastering and adds my thoughts on the same subject. This time, we tackle choosing a Rule set which is very actual since we’re at the butt end of D&D’s current edition. Part 1 can be found […]
Guest Post over at Dungeonmastering.com
Good morning. If you aren’t already a regular reader of Yax’ Dungeonmastering blog, I invite you to head over there for a guest post I wrote about the OGL license. The DNDreview blog already added a few comments on it that are very interesting. So feel free to comment over there as I get the […]
DM Chronicles: The legend of the Broken Dice, Session 2, Part 2
See part 1 here. Before getting into the actual dungeon crawl, as pointed out by Yan in the comments yesterday, I realized that PM was the only PC moving at a speed of 4 squares (20′). He was wearing Scale Mail, which has the same AC bonus as a Chain Shirt, only cheaper and bulkier. […]
DM Chronicles: The legend of the Broken Dice, Session 2, Part 1
Way back in October, I played a one shot adventure using Paizo’s Pathfinder #1, Burnt Offering. I wrote the session’s log here. We reconvened last Sunday for another session in a day long geekfest of Dim Sum, Anime and D&D. So on Sunday Morning we arrived at PM’s palace of Cats (he has 2) in […]
Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: Have Time, Will Travel.
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about the Bronze Dragon flying toward the sunset. In that post I challenged readers with a stupid question and the winner(s) could chose the subject of a Trope in RPG post. Davetrollkin stepped up first and requested I tackle Time Travel. Since time travel, much like the […]
Adventure Prep: The Newbie group, an Encore
Back in late October I posted an adventure prep article about doing a Demo D&D game for a group mostly made of D&D newbies based on Paizo’s Pathfinder #1 : Burnt Offering. The game was very entertaining, featuring crazy stupid goblins and some of the worse dice-craft I had ever seen in a game. A […]
Pathfinder #5 preview: Crawl that Dungeon!
Tonight features a double post because I’m taking off tomorrow night… It’s Valentine’s Day! (No I still haven’t received #4 if you were wondering) The fifth Installment of Paizo’s Pathfinder series, Sins of the Savios sets out to recreate the high-level massive dungeon crawl experience of classic D&D adventures. It features a multi-part dungeon based […]
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