Arena 4e

Arena 4E is a fast-paced combat game for two or more players, and it can be played as a bloody free-for-all, a team vs. team cooperative effort, or any other combination.[...]
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How To Get The Best Of All Editions

This post came out of a journaling session on 750words.com.  If you’ve never used it, I recommend it highly.  Because of the uncensored nature of the journal, there may be some residual disorganization, but IR[...]
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Hit Locker

One of the big design changes between 3rd and 4e was the way they handled damage and hit points. First of all, 4e characters start with a lot more hit points: your average characters starts with roughly 24 HP. Compare th[...]
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Character du Jour: Cudgel the Goblin

(No, this isn’t an instruction) Grey Goblins are known for three things: their granite toughness, their isolation, and their utterly ungoblinlike nature. For the one known as Cudgel, only two out of those three are[...]
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Player’s Handbook 3 (PHB3) Review (Part 3)

Psionics. I’ll admit that over the years I’ve never been a huge fan of psionics in D&D. I cringed when Wizards announced that PHB3 would introduce psionic powered character classes to 4e D&D. My initial (and [...]
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It’s Called Tabletop Gaming Not “Rebooting My Laptop” Gaming

Watching my fellow players and their fixation with technology in the past months has got me thinking quite a bit about the place of technology at the gaming table. They use their iPhones to store their character stats, r[...]
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Saving the game in the middle of combat

Because my group has a limited time to game each week (about 3-3.5) hours, the amount of stuff we can do in an individual session is pretty limited. In particular, there’†s a big burden on the DM to craft encount[...]
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D&D Dungeon Masters, the video

I realize this is old news but I have a few readers that don’t read a lot of other blogs so this is mainly for them. The last section bashes on 3.5 a bit, though I agree with most of the points they raise. Incid[...]
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Let’s Roll….(the dice that is!)

That song at the beginning of Borderlands, performed by Cage The Elephant, is definitely a fitting tune for this week. “Aint no rest for the wicked, money don’t grow on trees…I got bills to pay, I got m[...]
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Is More Really Better: A Look At Character Classes

I’m all about options, I love to have a multitude of choices, doing the research and then selecting the best fit for the vision of my character. These choices don’t just include the feats and powers I select [...]
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Magical Minds Contest Entries

Thanks to everyone who entered the PH3 competition. Entries are now closed. All entries have been packaged up and are ready to be sent to Greg Bilsland. Now you’ll just have to wait.[...]
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Classless 4e

Though the game is made up of classes- which are intrinsic to the design of the system- you can try something new with your next campaign by getting rid of them altogether. Some sub-systems in 4th Edition will have to st[...]
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Player’s Handbook 3 (PHB3) Review (Part 2)

In our Player’s Handbook 3 Review (Part 1) we looked at the new Shardmind race and one of the new classes, the Runepriest. Today in our PHB3 Review (Part 2) we’re looking at skill powers, feats, superior implement[...]
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Last day to win a Players Handbook 3!

You’ve got until 23.59 GMT today to enter the PH3 competition. http://buccaneersguild.com/players-handbook-3-giveaway-2/ Judged by our guest judge, WotC’s Greg Bilsland.[...]
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Hezruul’s Winged Goblins

As far as Wizards go, Hezruul the Magnificent was nothing but a fraud. In his lifetime he claimed credit for many fantastic creatures including the Owlbear, Chimera and Manticore, all of which pre-dated him by untold ce[...]
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i4e review

I’ve been meaning to post this review for awhile. At the end of last year I blogged about playing without my character sheet. In the comments, DM Ron suggested I check out a iPhone/iPod Touch program called i4e. It[...]
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Player’s Handbook 3 (PHB3) Review (Part 1)

You may think that you know what the Player’s Handbook 3 is all about if you’ve got a DDI subscription, but the preview content was just the tip of the iceberg. If you’re a DDI subscribers who’s consi[...]
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WotC come out of the bunker

Rodney Thompson from WotC has put a request online at a few sites. I’ll quote it in full: Help me make WotC adventures better.   Hello there everybody, In case you don’t know me, I’m Rodney Thompson, a[...]
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Tim’s Campaign – Session 4 Podcast

The druid Blindheart has been tainted by a black crystal and after the group destroys it he is released from its power. [...]
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The first duty of a prisoner is to escape

There may come a time in adventurer’s life when he is imprisoned against his will. Good characters can get imprisoned under false pretense or righteous action, or captured by enemies. When the party is trapped unde[...]
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4e Sample Combat

You know what’s missing from Fourth Edition D&D? A really good blow-by-blow combat example. Let’s fix that, shall we? First, let’s meet the team. Here’s four fresh 1st level adventurers, all g[...]
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The Evolution of the Dungeon Encounter

“Hey what dat noise?” “What noise dat you talk’n bout Oloorin?” “Sounds like fight’n, maybe we go see?” “Wha you talk’n bout? We have important job, we guard ch[...]
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D&D Tips from Mass Effect 2

Today we’re going to take a look how the action RPG Mass Effect 2 can make our games better as well. I will warn that, while I don’t plan on any direct spoilers in this review (omg, I can’t believe they blew up the[...]
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Getting back on track

It's been ages since I've last posted here and I'm putting this post to remind myself that I need to start getting back to blogging. To explain my absence, I can only say that I've started a full time job in the past few[...]
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Wizards Delivers a Killer Monster Makeover (Part 2)

This morning Ameron shared his thoughts on the new monster makeover Wizards announced yesterday. I’ve looked at the new format and thought a lot about it myself. Here are my initial impressions, with a little back[...]
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Mr d20 Guy – A tribute to Gary Gygax (repost)

I posted this one year ago in remembrance of the death of Gary Gygax. I thought it appropriate to re-post it this year. For my tribute to Gary Gygax on the two year anniversary of his death, I have created a new song sun[...]
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Wizards Delivers a Killer Monster Makeover

Keep the design simple, make the layout easy to follow and eliminate guess work. This is good advice if you’re designing a website or improving the Monster Manual. Yes, the masterminds at Wizards of the Coast have [...]
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Lords of Tyr – Lords-of-Tyr-D&D-Podcast-033 with Richard Baker

Welcome to the Lords of Tyr D&D Podcast!We are a Dungeons and Dragons gaming group that has been meeting twice a month since 2002. We now stream our game nights live on the Internet using uStream. Check out our site [...]
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30 years of books

I stacked all my dungeons and dragons books that I could find on my game table. I am one of those one genre gamers. I like fantasy role-playing games, and until this year that meant only one system, Dungeons and Dragons.[...]
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The Goliath, A Giant Waste

Me Smash! You go crush! Me smash, you crush! I’ll admit these were my initial thoughts on the Goliath and things haven’t changed much. Perhaps my stereotypes aren’t fair or justified, but that’s o[...]
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Undead du Jour times Four

Here’s the four undead adventurers I’ve generated for our one-shot game, primed and ready to download as 4th level characters. These were generated in Character Builder but use my own custom character sheet l[...]
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Qu3stion and 4nswer, Part 4

As part of his continuing series wherein he skewers so-called conventional wisdom regarding 4e, Gamer Bling presents a rebuttal of sorts against the statement that “4e is just an MMO on paper.” Actually, this stateme[...]
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Players Handbook 3 Giveaway

There’s only one more week left to enter the Players Handbook 3 contest! All you need to do is design a magical item to complete the Magical Minds series. The best item as chosen by our celebrity judge, WotC̵[...]
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Drow should be Lawful Evil, among other things

I have been thinking about Drow of late.  We are going through some of the classic modules and I really am looking forward to doing the GDQ series again.  Now I have every faith in DM to make it interesting and[...]
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Virgin DM Monologues: A Tale of Two Suspects and Five Unlikely Pirates

Did you know that warforged can come down with lycanthropy? Neither did we.[...]
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Secrets of Eberron Revealed (Part 6)

The Dragonmarked Houses try to keep some secrets of Eberron from being revealed. In this installment we focus on the best kept secret in Khorvaire – true Dragonmarks manifesting outside of the normal racial boundaries.[...]
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Total Party Unkill

Sometimes the real world conspires against us and one or more players can’t make the gaming session. Every game group should agree what to do when it happens. In our case, we usually put the campaign on hold and pl[...]
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A 4E chocolate box – review: underdark

I've been looking forward to this.  The Underdark is a wonderful environment for games and taps into the essence of D&D. What I didn't expect was a lavish campaign setting in it's own right... Click the title [...]
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Barding it up around town

I’ve always thought Bards made cool characters in books, but implemented horribly in roleplaying (and most computer) games. The 4e PHB2 introduce a Bard class that doesn’t suck. We’ve had a Bard in my r[...]
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Month in Review: February 2010

February was month of milestones at Dungeon’s Master. On February 1, Dungeon’s Master celebrated its 1-year anniversary. To mark the occasion we posted the State Of The Dungeon – 1 Year Later and shared som[...]
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February 2010 Blog Roundup: Choice Bits

I keep telling myself I’m going to do a weekly roundup of posts I like in the blogosphere, but I never get around to doing it. So here in no particular order, are ten of the many posts I bookmarked this past month.[...]
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Pathfinder, Keep on the Borderlands and witches

So Saturday we started what we call "the kids game", this is our D&D game that includes me, my two sons (6 and 11), my regular DM and his sons (10, 10 and 5).We started out as a 4e game and it went rather well.  [...]
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Anatomy of a TPK, Addendum

I made a key dungeon mastering mistake during last week’s near total party kill in my Dungeons and Dragons 4th edition campaign.  I share it here as a warning to those who follow. As I’ve mentioned, I’m using Harl[...]
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Fringes of Khorvaire, Session 2

This Friday’s campaign session, continuing off from the start of a new campaign, unintentionally emerged as an experiment in skill challenges. We wrapped up the final leg of challenges in Khyber’s Harvest, battling d[...]
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Pen and Paper Gaming in the 21st Century by Erik Mona

I am proud to announce that Pen & Paper Gaming in the 21st Century, the 2009 GamesU Keynote address by Erik Mona, is now live on our YouTube channel. Whether you missed it at the show or were not able to attend Neonc[...]
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inns & taverns – the smoking bottle

The Smoking Bottle is a halfling tavern tucked into the side of a hill, signposted by a large clay lamp in the shape of a bottle supported by a brass frame.  The fire in the top of the bottle... Click the title if [...]
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The City of Veneline – Part 2

Last time we looked at the history and style to the city of bridges. Now followsh a smattering of interesting places and groups to throw into it. These locations can also be used in other places in your game world. [...]
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Getting your character into new skin

Newbie DM had another great post today about how he created a Jurassic Park Dilophosaurus (the “spitting dinosaur”) by replacing the the flavor text of a Drow Sniper [DDI]. This allowed him to come up with a [...]
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First-Time DMing Tips: Part 1

Recently a friend of mine announced that he was going to try running a D&D campaign (at lunch at school) for the first time, so I made a list of suggestions for DM-ing his first game. ^_^ (He’d never even play[...]
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Mirror, Mirror

So tomorrow I play my first Pathfinder game.I am playing it with the kids, so it is not the same group as my 4e game. But I am going to play the same character.This of course will raise a cry from my GM saying "but you a[...]
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