Dungeon Dramas: A Guest Spot from Bob @ The Dice Bag
March 12, 2010 from Vulcan Stev's Database
Filed under: Fluff/Inspiration, Legacy D&D, RPG, RPG Hub, dungeons & dragons
Welcome back to Dungeon Dramas, my ongoing series of plot hooks as developed by the random roll of my Story Cubes. Today’s Dungeon Drama is guest written by Bob from The Dice Bag.
Believe it or not, Bob and I conco[...] Filed under: Fluff/Inspiration, Legacy D&D, RPG, RPG Hub, dungeons & dragons
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New Combat System – Part 1
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Black Rose, Part 3
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ITGW B2 Caves of Chaos is Go!
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Geomorph #20
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Minicast now available on Itunes
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Yet Another Free Download: Complete Character #4
I figure that I shouldn't mess with a good thing. People seem to be really enjoying my Complete Characters series of NPC downloads, so allow me to introduce you to Shelly Jackson, the Psychic Cat-Lady. That's the crazy o[...]Read on >>
Do You Have Time For Serpents?
Last Saturday I participated in a demonstration game of Dragon Age – Dark Fantasy Roleplaying Set 1: For Characters Level 1 to 5, the new roleplaying game from Green Ronin Publishing based on Dragon Age: Orig[...]Read on >>
RuneQuest II versus OpenQuest
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The Glass Ward
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Random Album Covers (Repost)
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New Games Detected!
I sold some games on Craigslist the other day; Some old board games I’ll never use. I let them go for 25 bucks, which, if you were to buy those games individually, would probably be around $200. But I wasn’t [...]Read on >>
Mind Bullets, Anyone?
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Novel Adventures: Games with Predefined Endings
In February’s issue of Dungeon (#173), Craig A. Campbell has created a three-encounter delve called Haruuc’s Tomb: A Novel Adventure based on events from Don Bassingthwaite’s fantastic Eberron novel, Word o[...]Read on >>
Exponential Number Encountered
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things I want to do better
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Fringes of Khorvaire, Session 3
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Friday’s 4E Freebie: Haruuc’s Tomb by Wizards of the Coast
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Earthdawn Soundtracks
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City of Spires
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Idealist Game Designer
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The underdark map from D (Drow) series
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DC Gameday VI
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Friday Discussion: Spousal Attitudes Towards Gaming
Yesterday, my wife had a tonsillectomy. Of course, she did great, because she’s about 10 times tougher than I’ll ever be. She’s awesome, and I’m tremendously, unbelievably lucky to have her.She’s not a tableto[...]Read on >>
More positive D&D coverage from a college paper
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[Friday Map] Geomorph Set 7
Another six geomorphs down! No real theme to this set, just getting back into the groove. [...]Read on >>
[TotalCon 2010] The Unexplained: Spirits Among the Ruins
This, regrettably, is where Saturday unraveled for me. Back when I preregistered, I hadn’t considered the effect of scheduling three investigation-heavy role-playing games in a row. It got rather tedious to go thro[...]Read on >>
Five good things I learned playing D&D 4th edition (or… How I learned not to care about diagonal movement!)
Some of you might have gotten the idea from a previous post that I don’t like Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition. Nothing could be further from the truth. I played the game for the better part of a year and had fun wit[...]Read on >>
Houserules and Dice Fudging – at what point are you no longer playing D&D?
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Lazy Friday Video Post: A Gentlemen’s Duel
I found this great short movie on Geeks are Sexy the day before yesterday and I thought this is something I have to share with my readers. The movie is not only extremely funny but also great inspiration for everyone [...]Read on >>
A Shiny Thought
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Microlite20, sold!
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Multiple Attack Update
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Friday Funny: Krenshar-Pei
The shopkeeper looked at the leopard-spotted dog sitting outside his shop, and he found himself oddly compelled to leave his shop so he could pet the sad-looking animal. The dog sat there while he consoled it and asked i[...]Read on >>
Coding Behaviors, and Why It Matters
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First Who, Then What
March 12, 2010 from Continuing Clockwise
Filed under: 4e, 4e DD, Advice/Tools, Game Mastery, RPG Hub, advice
Not long ago I came across the audio version of Jim Collins’ Good to Great. While the focus of the book is to understand the difference between truly great companies with great leadership and enduring growth from the[...] Filed under: 4e, 4e DD, Advice/Tools, Game Mastery, RPG Hub, advice
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Build the best multimedia D&D rig ever – Part 1
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Inversion, a Realm of the Manifold
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Dry Spell
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Bloodstorm Blade (or How to Throw a Mancatcher)
Every now and again you come across an ability that strikes fear into your heart as a DM. A lot of the most crippling combos in D&D are not obvious and require quite a bit of fanangling to pull off, but the very wors[...]Read on >>
Computer Simulations and Modern Warfare
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Spells vs. Rituals
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Sacred Oaths
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Class Acts: Wizards
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Crafting Castle Black Star, part 1
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Mail Call
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Change of Opinion: Flexibility not Limitation
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Credit Where Credit Is Due, Other Neglected Notes and Further Zigguratitude
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