See part 1 here. The Banquet We started with all PCs participating in a seemingly endless Banquet hosted by the local Merchant Baron, Brandobaris the Fat. Late into the scene’s night, after some interesting Roleplaying, Brandobaris opened a casket of Drow Wine, reputed to turn into a deadly poison 5 minutes after being exposed to […]
Kobold Love: Interlude 2, Reflections and the Half-Kobold Template revealed
The Cliff is higher than I thought. Over the weekend the immensity of what I have tackled with Kobold Love crashed on me. As comments, mostly positive, and some (well deserved) reservations started pouring in, what initially felt to me like a public adventure prep exercise took a new dimension. This is the real deal […]
Review: “Treasure of Talon Pass”
Synopsis: “Treasure of Talon Pass” is a an adventure for 4e D&D designed to take 2nd level characters to 3rd level. It is a fairly typical dungeon crawl that works well enough but also does not take advantage of environments and non-combat elements enough to make it more interesting than a string of combats. Production: […]
DM Chronicles: Session 1, That’s how you start a Campaign! Part 1
DM Chronicles, along my Adventure Prep posts are my longest running series on the Blog. The Chronicles are a DM’s report of my D&D game that I run twice a month from September to June every year. This year marks our 9th straight year playing with the same core group and my 1st D&D 4e […]
Project Kobold Love: The Adventure Plan
Hello and welcome to the 1st official design essay of Project Kobold Love. Here I’m going to reveal it to you, all 5 scenes of my adventure, including the very Tropa-licious ending I cooked up last week on my plane ride back from Gen Con. The 5 scenes model Kobold Love will follow a model […]
Kobold Love: Interlude 1, The Posse is building
My Kobold Love adventure plan post goes up at 20h00 EST tonight. While we wait, I thought I’d share the names of participants who officially joined the ‘hack/test Chatty’s adventure’ part of the Project: Cross-System Hacking: Greywulf joined to do it in his own Microlite20. Dave T. Game joined, hinting about d20Modern. Fang Langford joined […]
Campaign/Adventure Prep: 4th Edition Treasure Hunters!
My gaming group usually takes off for the summer. We put our campaign on hiatus because of vacations, family quality time and yard work. While we gamed some (Magic:The Addiction, one shot RPG games, etc) this summer was rather dry. Next Friday is the long awaited start of our new gaming season and both my […]
Chatty Studios Presents: Project Kobold Love
Edit: For those coming over from Kobold Quarterly, hi! Just a quick note to clarify that I’m not taking any donations for Kobold Love… That one will be free to see me build it and such to prove to you guys that I can produce quality material… I might ask you to buy the final […]
Adventure Design Workshop Seminar (GenCon 2008)
Still working through our backlog of GenCon 2008, we stopped in at the Adventure Design Seminar, which Mike Mearls moderated (say that three times fast), and also included Rich Baker, Bruce Cordell, Chris Youngs, and James Wyatt. The seminar was advertised as both talking about adventure design for D&D 4e and actually designing an adventure, […]
Epic Laundry Basket: 4e Vancian Wizards!
Want Vancian Magic in 4e? Here’s how I would do it: Leave at Will-Power as is (for fun purposes). Make level 1 and 2 daily spells into level 3 encounter spells. Shift the whole power list like that to have new spells at every 2 levels. Give level 1 Wizard access to 5 level 1 […]
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