I had the beautiful experience of visiting Chester, England today. It borders Wales, on the River Dee. It dates back to the Roman Era, with some businesses even having Roman baths under them, and Roman ruins on display at parts of the city. It also boasts a city wall in excellent condition, the best in England I… [Read more…]
My job brought me across the Atlantic for a few days and I’m currently in Manchester, England. I decided that since I had some downtime this afternoon, I’d check out some gaming/comic/geek stores within walking distance of my hotel. Surprisingly, there are more stores that I could walk to, than there are back home where… [Read more…]
Taking a spin with the Alea Tools Stackable Magnetic Markers I had the pleasure of running my regular D&D game with a set of Alea Tools Magnetic Markers, similar to both the Office Max magnets I’ve been using, and my paper condition tokens, and I can say that without a doubt, I am never going… [Read more…]
I was reading a little about death and religion in 4th Ed. and a thought occured to me. Most people in our world, I will assume, are religious; and I’m not a religious expert by any means, so I will stick to what I sort of know, being a catholic. Now, people who are believers… [Read more…]
It seems that the characters that I’ve come accross throughout my years of playing D&D have existed for simply one purpose: defeat the evil forces at work. That’s it. Sure, my dwarf was always “So and so… son of XXXX…”, but who was XXXX? Most of my DM’s through the years never ran campaigns that… [Read more…]
So I decided to participate in this months RPG Blog Carnival, hosted by The Core Mechanic. I cooked up a little map, using my Dungeon Tiles and Photoshop, as I’ve blogged about here. This is a small tavern out in the woods. It is owned by an angry dwarf by the name of Rufus Drunkbeard.… [Read more…]
February 27, 2009 by newbiedm
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