Never Get Involved in a Land War in Asia ("Unmasking the Traitor," Session 1)
After Silas’ chat with the Raven Queen, he found his companions lying in some coffins in the next chamber. Once they all regained consciousness, the eladrin vampire briefed them on his encounter with the Raven Queen a[...]Read on >>
Cure Selfish Wounds
Today's D&D Next post at the Wizards site by Bruce Cordell is titled Time to Heal and discusses the role of the Cleric class and how it relates to healing through the life span of Dungeons & Dragons. There's a [...]Read on >>
New: Warrens of the Stone Giant Thane
What with all the 5e talk I wouldn't be surprised to see a fall off of readership for new 4e modules in Dungeon. Maybe, maybe not. However, I have to carry on and inform you of anything Greyhawk related coming [...]Read on >>
On the Costal Wizards
You know what's awesome?Lamentations of the Flame PrincessOSRICSwords & WizardryLabyrinth LordAdventurer Conqueror KingWhy? They are thought out - done for love, and amazingly playable. Each one makes you want to gra[...]Read on >>
The One with the Dragon and the TPK ("Seeds of Chaos," Session 7)
The highlights of “Seeds of Chaos,” Session #7 included a dragon!, a TPK!, and a special cameo appearance by a god! The heroes of our campaign are: Boojum—a pixie wizard, played by SteveSilas—an eladrin[...]Read on >>
Three Down, One to Go ("Seeds of Chaos," Session 6)
So, of course, the hot topic of discussion as we gathered together at Total Escape Games on this particular Thursday night was WotC’s recent announcement that a new edition of D&D was in the works. The initial rea[...]Read on >>
This is not a post about 5th Edition
Alright, it is. A little bit. As you almost certainly already know, Wizards of the Coast recently announced that the company had begun development of Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition, accompanied by a call to ga[...]Read on >>
Dungeons & Dragons of Future Past
The 4th Edition of D&D brought about the only long campaign I've ever managed to run, and I attribute a large part of that to the ways the new edition changed the role of being a Dungeon Master and the tools it prov[...]Read on >>
Out of the Frying Pan… ("Seeds of Chaos," Session 5)
Out of the frying pan… and into the fire. That’s where our heroes found themselves in Session #5 of our “Seeds of Chaos” adventure. After leaving the Citadel (where they had informed Lord Bothwell that he not o[...]Read on >>
Seeds of Chaos, Session 4
In the latest session of our “Seeds of Chaos” adventure, Silas returns, Dagon gets punk’d, and Boojum is bullied by a really mean tiefling chick. We kicked off this past Thursday night’s game with Blake (razorcla[...]Read on >>
4E Steading of the Hill Giant Chief
I don't know how this one almost slipped past me, but over at Wizards of the Coast there is a new adapted module in Dungeon 197 based on Gary Gygax's 1978 classic Steading of the Hill Giant Chief. As usual, you[...]Read on >>
Ice Ice Baby (or "Seeds of Chaos," Session 3)
Even as a pre-Christmas storm was dumping a foot or more of snow on the Denver-area, the PCs in our D&D campaign— by an odd coincidence— also found themselves journeying through a landscape covered with ice and s[...]Read on >>
Mud Monsters, Evil Trees, and Wee Plastic Stands
We met this past Thursday night at Total Escape Games in Broomfield, CO for the second session of our new campaign. No one brought Oreos to this session, so I decided this time the gloves were coming off… and in the co[...]Read on >>
Elves, Oreos, and a New Beginning
The start of a D&D campaign is always an exciting time, so I had been looking forward to this past Thursday night’s session when we’d begin a brand new adventure. We’d dove right into our last couple of adventu[...]Read on >>
ePawn: One Step Closer to an Affordable Digital Game Board
Even before I first saw the video of Carnegie Mellon students using the Microsoft Surface to play roleplaying games, I have been genuinely excited about the potential to have a fully interactive digital game board to use[...]Read on >>
Tuck in! Magic food in 4th edition {4e}
Food glorious food. If you run a campaign anything like I do, you're undeniably lazy when it comes to the micromanagement of PCs' dietary requirements, so you just chucked a hamper full of unlimited rations at them mid-h[...]Read on >>
Guild mechanics in 4th edition {4e}
Grognardling has done a great job outlining some rules for guilds in a recent post and it's inspired me to find some way of incorporating guilds into 4th edition using its inherent modular mechanics. Guilds are like[...]Read on >>
3 slottable sigils {4e}
You know how it is. Sometimes you're not sure whether to get rid of your awesome current armour and go with this new hotness you've wrenched from a fireball-trapped chest; after all, it has some nice powers but it might [...]Read on >>
Hardcore D&D items {4e}
I can't believe I'm so late to the game. There's something that's been floating in my periphery for some time now and it's only just recently occurred to me to check it out. What the hell am I talking about? We[...]Read on >>
Wizard’s Open Window About to Close
Hopefully by now you are all well aware of Wizard's Open Window policy on submissions for the online publications. Just as hopefully, you've been working hard on your best ideas to send in (I know I've been kicking arou[...]Read on >>
Beyond the Crystal Cave: 4e
I've written about Wizards of the Coast's popular in-store campaign, D&D Encounters a few times by now, and most recently in August during Gencon they revealed their newest stroyline that now debuts&nb[...]Read on >>
New Article: Rary the Traitor
Aww yeah, Wizards of the Coast is slowly lurching back to Greyhawk. Last time as you may recall, the History Check column of Dragon Magazine #402 was a Greyhawkian subject involving Vecna and Kas. Now in t[...]Read on >>
