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 […]
Inq. of the Week: Frequency of Play?
This week I’d like to take a look at how often all of you play tabletop RPGs. My own D&D campaign has been on a short hiatus for four weeks now and will be resuming in early November, but leading into the holiday season I’m scared the schedule is going to be disrupted for the next few adventures.
2 weeks Notice: Brainstorm Slowdown
I’ve thought long and hard how to best present this but the announcement that I was stepping down from managing the RPG Bloggers Network muddles the original intent. So I’ll do what I do best and I’ll tell you a story. When I came back from Gen Con last year, I had learned that I […]
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.
Tales of Draconis, Part 4 and Epilogue
Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. Mutant Future, GM by Walkerp Mutant Future is that weird, weird game that came out of labyrinth Lord publisher Goblinoid Game. Contrary to Labyrinth, Mutant Future (MF) is not so much a retro-clone of Gamma Worlds (or it’s predecessor Metamorphosis Alpha) but rather a new game built on […]
Tales of Draconis, Part 3
See parts 1 and 2 here and here. Seminars, The Tricks of the Successful 4e DM, English There’s a French expression I coined one day to describe how different my brother and I were. It goes ‘Nous sommes comme le jour et la pluie” which translates less poetically into “We are like day and […]
RPG Bloggers Network: My side of the Story
Some of you may have heard the news, my friends and I have stepped down from the RPGbloggers’ board of fake directors and we are offering to ‘hand out’ the network to the one who presents us a proposal we like best. If you didn’t know it already, last year before Gen Con, Dave Chalker, […]
Tales from Draconis, Part 2
Draconis is a Montreal Gaming convention. See part 1 here. Saturday was a big day for me, I had 2 games to GM for, 2 seminars and a game scheduled (as a player) in the evening. Saved by the Grell, English Saved by the Grell was an adventure written my John Richter based on my […]
Tales from Draconis, Part 1
Draconis is an annual Gaming Convention held in Montreal. Run by a group of dedicated gamers, the con attracts a little less than 100 people to play mostly RPGs, some board/card games and attend seminars. Montreal is a very Indie-friendly city and this year the con goers were served with some top notch guest such […]
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 […]
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