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Opportunity Actions: D&D Tutorial, or How To Manage Theft
It commonly comes up: I need something here. A name, a plot hook, a background event that ties my character in to the campaign. Many of us like the idea of taking the time to write a deep story, with complex characters, and compelling plot twists. Some of us don’t have that kind of time. [...]
Gaming Styles Clarified
I received lots of feedback about my gaming styles post. I really appreciate all of you twitter friends that responded, as well as those that emailed me or left comments on the site. I truly appreciate hearing your thoughts. In listening to all of the feedback two things have become abundantly clear to me… 1) [...]
The Value of a One-Shot
Okay, I’ll admit it… I don’t like running one-shot adventures. I usually find it cumbersome, slow, and generally boring. One of the reasons I love DMing so much is that my players and I get to weave a story that includes elements in which everyone is invested. A one-shot pretty much always precludes that, reducing [...]
Hammerfast review – now with Pictures!!
[Note: I realized I didn't put pictures into my original review, so I have added theme here (dumb newbie blogger mistake!). Please note that all images were taken by me, with my own digital camera, and they are of the product I purchased myself. The artwork and names used in published Dungeons and Dragons materials [...]
Ruboryn Campaign Session 5
Here is session 5 of my 4e homebrew Ruboryn Campaign. If you haven’t been reading along, you can go back and catch episodes I through IV, posted on 1/14, 1/15, 1/19, and 1/24 of this year (2010). Cast of Characters Adventuring Party: Lakatosh: Male Human Bard Thorn Dayereth: Male Shifter Warlock Bodoka Vespana: Female Human [...]
Ruboryn Campaign Session 4
Here is session 4 of my 4e homebrew Ruboryn Campaign. Once again, no pictures. Sigh… this will be remedied in the second story arc for this group (in a session report or two)… – Session 4: Of Richly Merchants, A Righteous Shopkeep, and a Desert Farm Afire! Cast of Characters Adventuring Party members will be [...]
Ruboryn Campaign Session 3
Here is a recap of session 3 of my homebrew Ruboryn Campaign. Once again, no pics – sorry – soon I will have pics for you. This was a long session (5 hours!) and had a lot of great role-playing! I spruced up my formatting for this one – hopefully it’s not too hard on [...]
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