December 2011
6 posts
Secret Santicore is out!
Itt’s great and there were a million contributors!
10 MB Download!
(I painted the cover! and a few other parts.. ;)
Isle of Dread: In the Clutches of the Siren Queen
I ran an adventure last night- that was meant to be a dry run for one of the adventures I’m running at DDXP. This one ended up being cut from my schedule (it was supposed to have run in slot 12, but my flight is leaving out of Indianapolis too early for me to squeeze in this last game)
So I get to tell you about it here:
I wrote a 2-part series about characters that ended up shipwrecked on...
Twitter is a Frustrating Medium, plus Why Wasn't I...
First, the fundamental question of the web. Why Wasn’t I Consulted?
Ok, you read that?, good.
Here’s my guilty confession. I think someone should actually listen to me about DMing, because I’ve been hammering away at it for a while. And I also think a lot of people are doing things wrong (not a crime), but then you’d have two wrong people get together and validate each...
Skills Are A Description, ..not just a mechanic!
I see a lot of this:
DM presents a situation..which could be anything.
Players look at how they can use their highest skill to apply it. They roll history at pit traps. They roll arcana against a lock. They roll athletics against a math problem.
Stop the madness.
Obviously, the solution (as in most solutions) lies with the DM to handle, but here’s an easy way to think of it:
The...
LFR Adventures to be Retired
LFR produced 109 adventures in the first 18 months of the campaign. Most of those adventures have a retirement date of Dec 31st of this year. That is a lot of adventures to retire at one time. Therefore we have decided to retire the Year One adventures in two waves.
The first wave includes all regional adventures with the code 1-1, 1-2 or 1-3, CORE adventures 1-1 through 1-9, and SPEC1-1 and...
Re-Imagining the Races for 4E- Shardminds and...
I”ve posted this picture before, but here it is once more: It’s a Dragonborn! Except I respun it as a sort of Ki-Rin-ish Dragonborn.
Because.. why not?
The other day (this was Thanksgiving weekend) my older son and I got a notebook and started hammering out a “worldbook” for a future D&D campaign. I wanted to show him how I did it, and I wanted to see his feedback....