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Ideas for D&DNext

Thursday, 19 January, 2012

(I want to preface this post with a note. This is my (AlioTheFool) wishlist for D&D Next. This is by no means a list of demands, nor does it necessarily reflect the views or desires of anyone else here at RPGMusings.) I’m now looking forward to the next iteration of D&D. The idea that Wizards [...]

Kristmas Kobold Adventure (feat. Krampus)

Thursday, 8 December, 2011

Every year I have a holiday tradition. I invite a few friends over, make pancakes, and have a Kristmas Kobold 1-shot. I suppose it’s a sort of (sometimes dreaded) holiday-themed adventure, but the cheese factor is cranked to 11 by the fact that the PCs are all kobolds, a fact which has never failed to [...]

D&D: It hurts so good

Friday, 18 November, 2011

A couple weeks ago I wrote up a bit about how I was doing D&D wrong, but I didn’t feel like I was wrong to do it. Happily, that garnered quite a bit of discussion, more specifically on Twitter (where you can find me faffing about all day anyway) about what makes D&D “feel” wrong. [...]

D&D Discussion: Are you doing it wrong?

Friday, 4 November, 2011

I used to post these updates over on my own site (www.vanitygames.com), which started out as a totally D&D DM blog-centric site. I was attempting to support my spouse, who had some vague aspirations towards game design, so I got into D&D so my spouse’d have a cheerleader on the sidelines. Well, that totally fell [...]

Kill the cleric!

Friday, 21 October, 2011

Alternately titled: “Turning player loss into dramatic character death” but that sounds way less catchy. The setup: I have a player for whom we coined the term “D&Dmo.” When he was present at the table, and I mean present and not just sitting there, he was fantastic. Bright, beautiful, an engaging roleplayer, a great tactician, a [...]

The Recycle Bin – Angel Beats and Speaking Well As The Dead

Wednesday, 14 September, 2011

So it’s been a while. I would like to say I’ve been deep in a secluded underground vault, surrounded by nothing but my beloved Pez dispensers, exposing myself to as much media as I could to transmutate into Recycle Bin posts for you all.  But there was this issue with my brother, a suit of [...]

Homebrew: Dragon Spirit Pact Hexblade

Monday, 22 August, 2011

Dragon Spirit Pact is a reflavoring of the Infernal Pact for the Hexblade Warlock. This generally involves changing the power names and flavor text, but I made some slight mechanical changes to try and fit the flavor better. Since I’m attempting to emulate a metallic Spirit Wyrm (see below the cut), I generally changed powers [...]