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Personal Encounter Design Workshop

January 5, 2011 by Bartoneus

In mid-December I received a great e-mail from a reader named Brian that I talk to regularly on my twitter account, he was planning for an upcoming D&D adventure and wanted some specific help with designing an encounter. I’m not sure what exactly prompted him to send it my way, but I was more than happy to read through and share some of my ideas to help spice up his encounter. Just today I received a follow up e-mail that he is planning to run the encounter tomorrow and that he wanted to run his updated encounter by me again. I was all to happy to oblige, and I also realized that the exchange of e-mails might be something some of you would be interested in seeing. So here it is, with his permission of course.

Filed Under: Editorial, Roleplaying Games, The Architect DM Tagged With: 3.5, 3.x, 4e, advice, D&D, Dungeons and Dragons, e-mail, encounter design, q&a, Random Encounter, roleplaying games, Roleplaying Games

My RPG DNA: Part 3: The Oughts, D&D 3.X

June 8, 2010 by The Chatty DM

Shortly after my 28th birthday party, I sat in my living room with the D&D 3rd Edition Player’s Handbook in my hands. After a decade away from Trolls, Drow, Mindflayers and other Gygaxian-branded fantasy tropes, I felt the strong pull to return to the world of D&D. However, remembering my attempt at re-reading the 2e Player’s Handbook back in 1998, I expected the book to be really bad…

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 3.5, d20

Review: “Kobold Quarterly #11”

November 4, 2009 by Bartoneus

There’s a reason every review I see of the Kobold Quarterly magazine compares it to the Dragon and Dungeon print magazines from years passed, even opening a PDF of the book and seeing the cover makes me immediately think of seeing those issues in my local book store. The comparison goes well beyond the cover, however, through the whole interior of the publication that screams nostalgia…

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 3.5, D&D, dnd 4e, Dungeons and Dragons, issue 11, kobold quarterly, magazine, pathfinder, Reviews, roleplaying games, Roleplaying Games

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