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Review: “Adventurer’s Vault 2”

August 11, 2009 by Bartoneus

The second arms and equipment resource book, Adventurer’s Vault 2 is much like the first installment but this time presenting a myriad of items for (as the cover says) ALL character classes. This book begins to fill out some of the under represented classes such as the Swordmage and most of the PHB2 classes that missed out on the items in the first Player’s Handbook and Adventurer’s Vault.

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, adventurer, adventurer's vault 2, D&D, dnd 4e, Dungeons & Dragons, magic items, roleplaying game, Roleplaying Games, tabletop, wizards of the coast, wotc

Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #4

August 5, 2009 by Bartoneus

Continuing a series of posts I did in May, I take a more in depth look at each monster entry in the 4th Edition Monster Manual 2!

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: dnd 4e, Dungeons & Dragons, monster manual 2, preview, Reviews, roleplaying game, Roleplaying Games

Review: “Eberron Campaign Guide”

July 22, 2009 by Bartoneus

The DM companion book to the Eberron Player’s Guide, the Eberron Campaign Guide presents all of the information a DM could need to run a 4th Edition D&D game in the unique and interesting fantasy world of Eberron. Unlike the Player’s Guide, this is a book that mostly only DMs who want to run a game in Eberron are going to want to buy.

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, D&D, dnd 4e, Dungeons and Dragons, eberron campaign guide, game, Reviews, roleplaying games, Roleplaying Games, tabletop

Mining the 4E “Eberron Player’s Guide”

June 17, 2009 by Bartoneus

If you’re an Eberron fan and a 4th Edition player than there’s really no doubt that you’ve picked up the Player’s Guide today or are planning on picking it up in the next few days. I’m going to leave reviewing this book to other people this time, though I do recommend going over to Geek’s Dream Girl and checking out a selection of early questions that she answered about what’s in the book, instead what I’m going to present are the reasons why everyone who doesn’t already own this book is going to want to buy it!

Filed Under: Featured, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, dnd 4e, Dungeons & Dragons, eberron, player's guide, roleplaying game, Roleplaying Games

Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #3

May 29, 2009 by Bartoneus

Now that the Monster Manual 2 has been out for a little bit, I figure it’s good to continue my more detailed looks at the monster inside it in case any DMs out there have put off buying it and still aren’t aware of exactly what it contains.

Filed Under: Roleplaying Games Tagged With: D&D, dnd 4e, Dungeons & Dragons, monster manual 2, preview, Roleplaying Games, roleplaying games

Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #2

May 17, 2009 by Bartoneus

Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #1 Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #2 Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #3 Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #4 Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #5 (coming soon) Demon – The demons get an excellent group of additions in this book.  The Abyssal Eviscerator (lvl 14 […]

Filed Under: Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, D&D, dnd 4e, Dungeons & Dragons, monster manual 2, preview, Roleplaying Games, roleplaying games

Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #1

May 15, 2009 by Bartoneus

Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #1 Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #2 Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #3 Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #4 Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #5 (coming soon) Many of you DM’s out there will be going out to get the Monster Manual 2 as soon […]

Filed Under: Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, D&D, dnd 4e, Dungeons & Dragons, monster manual 2, preview, Roleplaying Games, roleplaying games

A Comparison of Content

December 18, 2008 by Bartoneus

You’ve all heard the argument, and indeed many of you have probably even said it a couple of times, that “4th Edition has less content in the core books than previous editions of D&D.” But I’ve wondered if this was accurate. My instinct and a hunch were telling me one answer, but I set out to find out the truth!

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 3rd edition, 4th Edition, comparison, D&D, dnd, dnd 4e, Dungeons and Dragons, roleplaying, Roleplaying Games

D&D 4e: New Encounters

November 19, 2008 by Bartoneus

I began putting together some new Encounter group templates that can be used to expedite your game planning and hopefully present your players with some new experiences and challenges. I’ve also listed some suggestions and brainstorming for how these groups could be implemented, and I would love to hear any you’ve come up with as well!

Filed Under: Featured, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, D&D, dnd 4e, Dungeons & Dragons, encounter groups

4th Edition Encounter Planner

November 14, 2008 by Bartoneus

Earlier this week I was talking to Asmor and idly mentioned to him how I was trying to make an Encounter Planner for 4th Edition that used the DMG encounter templates. I was hoping to have something where I input a level, choose a difficulty, and it outputs a list of the monsters that will […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, asmor, D&D, dnd 4e, Dungeons and Dragons, Roleplaying Games

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