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Volcanic Adventure Tiles
I write this post with apologies to Paul King, from the excellent Kingwork Creative Blog. The other day I was messing around on Photoshop trying to create volcanic Dungeon,- ahem- *Adventure* Tiles. It was mostly an exercise in learning a bit more on Photoshop, while also designing something I wanted for my game. After posting […]
On rpgKids…
EDIT 9/2010 – If you are looking for rpgKids, you can find it here. ——————————————————- I’ve received numerous comments and emails about rpgKids, and I have to say that I’m extremely happy with the response so far. Parents seem to really be digging playing the game with their kids. I stumbled on this guy’s blog, […]
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Open Game Table Volume 2 nominations are in!
“Open Game Table: The Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs, Volume 1” was a book that came out last year in which the best rpg material of the blogosphere was collected and put into print form. It was thought up and put together by Jonathan Jacobs, author of the gaming blog The Core Mechanic and one […]
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NewbieDM Review: The Plane Below: Secrets of the Elemental Chaos
This is a tough book for me to review, mainly because I have never, ever, in my years of playing D&D have had any sort of interest in planar campaigns. My PC’s have never been to Sigil, City of Brass, nor the Happy Hunting Grounds. The DM’s I’ve played with never took us for a […]
Warstories: Let’s talk miniatures
So since I’ve got minis on the brain today, let’s talk a bit about them, and how you use them in your game. I’m the type of DM that doesn’t need to have a mini for every single enemy on the table. I think that’s insane (in a good way), although there certainly are many […]
Win a set of D&D Miniatures Primal Heroes 1 & 2
EDIT: SUNDAY 1/17/2010 – We have a winner! Scott M (comment @ January 13, 5:01pm) was selected as the winner! Congratulations to Scott and thank you all for entering! In 2 weeks, we are giving away the Dragonborn books, so check back! —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Thought we’d start the week with a giveaway, and who doesn’t like […]
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The best 4e experience yet
Fights take too long. There’s no roleplaying. It’s a videogame on paper. Blah blahblah blah blah blahblah. I had a wonderful time on Sunday night with 4e, and I feel like blogging about it. Why? Because that session reinforced the true strength and selling point of 4e: simplicity to run. I was asked to run […]
A system for playing D&D with my kid
EDIT 9/2010: The new version of rpgKids is available here. ———————————————————————- If you are anything like me, your little kids are curious about D&D. I know that when game time comes at my house, my 4 year old daughter loves hanging around the table seeing what we’re doing. She’s full of questions about the minis, […]
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NPC Tracker cards
I was talking to one of my players today, and he casually mentioned that sometimes there were too many NPC’s to remember in my game, and note taking is not their thing… so I decided to come up with npc cards. These are simple to use. The Photoshop version has a “hole” where the portrait […]
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January 19, 2010
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