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Death Is Only The Beginning
Death is the threat that hangs over every character, PC and NPC alike, at the table. For the longest time, death was the ultimate punishment. The consequence that couldn’t be topped. The fate that every character faced and every player hoped to help them avoid. The fear of death is a natural one because in [...]
Kristmas Kobold Adventure (feat. Krampus)
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 [...]
Kill the cleric!
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
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 [...]
Review – Worldbreakers: Etherkai, the Nightmare Dragon
Worldbreakers: Etherkai, the Nightmare Dragon, written by Quinn Murphy of the Ennie nominated At-Will website, is a short 6 page PDF detailing an unusual type of solo encounter intended for your D&D4e game. The first question that I, or anybody, might ask is “What is a Worldbreaker?”.
Opportunity Actions: Blog Like It’s The End Of The World ’11 Timeline
This past Monday was “Blog Like It’s The End Of The World”, a yearly event where people pretend the zombie apocalypse has struck. I participated in it last year (right here at RPGMusings, no less), and have decided to make a tradition of it. This year, I posted both to Twitter and Facebook. I’m including [...]
Why You Should Be Reading The D&D Comic
There’s a perception, both outside the gamer community and to some extent within it, that all roleplaying fans are also comic nerds. It’s not always an accurate assumption, even if there does tend to be a lot of overlap. I’m what you could call a casual comic book fan, as are many of my friends. [...]
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