Innistrad Set 2: Dark Ascension Arrives! (Good news for 4E DMs!)

Today, Wizards of the Coast released their second set of the Magic the Gathering: Innistrad series, featuring thematic Gothic horror elements such as undead armies, vampires, werewolves, and ghostly spirits.  This secon[...]
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EN World Review – Review of They Shall Be Paid In Coin of the Realm by Taurus Twelve

Happy Humpday, fellow gamers!  We’re halfway to the weekend, and this week cannot get over soon enough to please me.  I’ve got not only my regular local Friday night game this week, but also my bi-monthly D&D [...]
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Dungeons of Adel: The Hellmouth

One of the Arch-Dungeons of Adel, the Hellmouth is a member of a family of massive, seemingly living spaces that exist beneath each Nation of Adel (and the Abyss Isle and Noshiki), their exact positions shifting, shrinki[...]
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State Of The Dungeon – Year 3

Today Dungeon’s Master celebrates its third birthday. Three years ago Ameron and I launched the blog with the intention of talking about 4e Dungeons & Dragons. Our goal was to share our experiences of the game[...]
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I Need Help: An Appeal

The long and short of it, is that I’m in trouble. I’ve hit bottom, and I don’t know what to do. I’ve exhausted all other options. I want to ask for your generosity and empathy. I’m uncomfort[...]
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Questions For Game Designers

Over twitter, Quinn Murphy posted a pool of questions he plans to send to some game designers he admires for small interviews, to inform his own views on game design. His questions are pretty interesting, so I thought I [...]
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D&D News Reactions

Since the announcement of D&D Next earlier this month, there has been a flurry of news about D&D. I’ve held off on writing about the new edition because I wanted to avoid speculation, but as more details[...]
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A Game For All People: The Perfect DnD Recipe

This article is being written in advance of reading any material concerning the actual content of DnDNext from WOTC. Unless you’ve been living under a rock somewhere, the odds are that you’ve heard the announ[...]
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Icosahedrophilia Podcast, Episode 138: A Sort of Homecoming, Part 2

Our adventure entitled “A Sort of Homecoming” continues, adventure fans! It’s as if Maelbrathyr were singing to the Broken Promise crew, “Stay with me … just a little bit longer … please please please please[...]
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EN World Review – Kobold Quarterly Issue 20 by Open Design

Greetings Gentle Readers!  I hope that this week is going well for you all, and I double that hope for those who dwell in the snowy northwest, which I understand is currently being blanketed with the snowstorm of the ce[...]
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Icosahedrophilia Podcast, Episode 137: A Sort of Homecoming, Part 1

We’re back, adventure fans, with a new adventure in the Stormhaven campaign! Please listen now to episode 137, presenting “A Sort of Homecoming, Part 1,” or subscribe via iTunes, Zune, or plain old RSS. In this epi[...]
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The Residuum Conundrum: Rituals in Dark Sun

Ever since I started DMing 4E, I’ve tried to champion the use of rituals in my D&D campaign.  While I know that to some players, the use of rituals is not exactly top on their list of priorities as heroic adventu[...]
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D&D Virtual Table

Most of the role-playing games I run or play in are run online. The main benefit for me is that playing online lets me keep together my gaming group despite the fact that we’re scattered across the country now. Whe[...]
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DriveThruRPG reviews for January 8–14, 2012

Happy new year, everybody! During the week of January 8–14, 2012, I reviewed four products for DriveThruRPG. Clocks and Secrets by Lyra Ambient. As the “secrets” part of the name implies, this track does a great jo[...]
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DriveThruRPG reviews for January 1–7, 2012

Happy new year, everybody! During the week of January 1–7, 2012, I reviewed four products for DriveThruRPG. I was especially delighted to have four new Sonic Legends tracks to review, after a long hiatus between new re[...]
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Shadowghast Manor, a.k.a. the coffin warehouse

December 2011 brought with it Shadowghast Manor, the latest set of Dungeon Tiles from Wizards of the Coast. Like the previous sets in the DN series (as well as DT and DU), Shadowghast Manor includes six sheets of double-[...]
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Icosahedrophilia Podcast, Episode 136: Errand of Mercy, Part 6

I felt so bad about the month-long delay between parts 4 and 5 of “Errand of Mercy,” dear listeners, that I decided to publish parts 5 and 6 on subsequent days, albeit in different years! Please celebrate Icosahedrop[...]
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Icosahedrophilia Podcast, Episode 135: Errand of Mercy, Part 5

It’s that time again, adventure fans: time to catch up with the crew of the Broken Promise in episode 135 of the Icosahedrophilia podcast! I can hardly believe it took me over a month to roll out a new episode—for wh[...]
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Fury of the Feywild Fortune Cards: Don’t anger the eladrins!

Fury of the Feywild, the latest set of D&D Fortune Cards released last week month, just before I went away to a professional conference. Upon returning home, I eagerly tore into a thick stack of packs, including a c[...]
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EN World Review – Karma Deck & KD Booster: Requiem by Creation’s Edge Games

Happy Holidays, fellow gamers, to one and all!  Here we are, with only a few more days before Christmas and Kwanzaa, right in the very midst of Hanukkah… and for those traveling the D&D multiverse, the Four Feast[...]
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SOPA: Bane of the D&D Blogger?

When I started blogging about all things D&D 4E almost three years ago, I never imagined that I might one day be writing a political commentary about anything more serious than which side of the Edition Wars you sho[...]
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Instant Dungeon Crawling, Trial by Dragon

In which Chatty shares the highlights of his New York Comic Con D&D 4e game, featuring dungeons crawling and dragon mustering... or was that dragon mustarding. I forget.[...]
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Ghosts Of Blogs Past: All The World’s A Suggestion Box

This irregular column resurrects (relevant) lost blog posts from Mike’s 2006 personal blog on Yahoo 360 and updates them with new relevance and perspective. From December 2006: There’s never enough time to do[...]
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Dynamic Affiliations 4E

I mentioned a while ago that I was thinking about adapting the rules for dynamic affiliations from D&D 3.5′s Player’s Handbook II for use in my 4E campaign. My goal is to help differentiate paragon tier[...]
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EN World Pre-Release Review – The Book of Vile Darkness by WotC

Greetings fellow D&D gamers!  I hope this week finds all my Readers well, and that your plans for the Holiday Season are shaping up to be happy ones!  Despite the rushing around we all experience this time of year[...]
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Instant Dungeon Crawling, The Formula and the Setup

In which Chatty shares is instant dungeon crawling formula that he used at the New York Comic Con to improvise a full D&D session.[...]
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WotC Press Release: The Book of Vile Darkness

Looks like a Christmas present came early for me this year!  Just got a package this evening from Wizards of the Coast, and it appears I am fortunate enough to have received a pre-release review copy of the upcoming 4E [...]
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EN World Review – Kobold Quarterly #19 by Open Design

Greetings fellow gamers, and welcome to another installment of my weekly game product review on EN World News!  It’s been a strange busy week here, as I am simultaneously trying to get ready for the Holidays, as well [...]
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Playing with your Inner Villain

Just about a week or so ago, I took part in and “won” my first NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month.  Winning the contest is easy: simply start a novel on any topic on November 1st and complete and complete 50[...]
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Resolve: An Idea for Tougher Minions

I’m a big fan of minions and use them frequently when running my Dungeons & Dragons campaign. The simple mechanics allow fast-moving fights that simulate the quick skirmishes against faceless troops seen in ac[...]
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EN world Review – Heroes of the Feywild by Wizards of the Coast

Greetings all!  I know it has been a while since I posted a review, but I’ve been hard at work this month on the National Novel Writing Month Project, and I’m rather pleased to report that I started and completed 50[...]
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Fightin’ (Some thoughts on Combat)

I’ve been struggling lately with the tension I feel between mechanically complex and more rules-light systems. I enjoy Pathfinder, but when I’m running it I sometimes find myself thinking, “there has go[...]
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Relive the legend of Drizzt

Although I’ve wanted to try the Wrath of Ashardalon and (to a somewhat lesser degree) Castle Ravenloft D&D Adventure System board games, I actually got my first taste of the system with the new Legend of Drizz[...]
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Icosahedrophilia Podcast, Episode 134: Errand of Mercy, Part 4

Welcome back, adventure fans, to the next installment in the adventures of the Broken Promise crew, presented in “Errand of Mercy, Part 4,” presented in episode 134 of the Icosahedrophilia podcast! Please lis[...]
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Worldbuilding Diary: Layers

I have talked about “Layers” before, in brief, and probably in other web sites and not this one. There is a price to pay in memory when you make disparate comments about your projects on other people’s [...]
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D&D Zombie Apocalypse, Part 2: The What Ifs

In which Chatty asks a series of questions about the why and the how of a zombie apocalype in a fantasy world and comes up with solid ideas for campaign plots.[...]
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D&D 4E Press Release: Heroes of the Feywild!

Just got the press release this morning regarding the new Players’ Option book, Heroes of the Feywild.  I have to say I’m pretty excited to see this new product coming out this month, as well as the Fury of the Feyw[...]
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Sandbox Dilemmas: The best laid plans of mice and DMs…

As I’ve probably mentioned before in a couple dozen blogs, I run a 4E campaign down in Toledo, Ohio for some of my old college buddies on a bi-weekly schedule.  I’ve technically been running a campaign for them now [...]
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EN World Review – Mega-Double Review Special: Gauntlgrym & Neverwinter!

Well, here it is, fellow D&D gamers!  My usual Wednesday review got pushed back a day, because frankly this darned thing had gotten so massive, I just had to sit down and take an editorial vorpal sword to the revie[...]
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Icosahedrophilia Podcast, Episode 133: Errand of Mercy, Part 3

Jacques is dead! What does this mean for the rest of our heroes? Find out when you listen now to episode 133 of the Icosahedrophilia podcast, or subscribe via iTunes, Zune, or plain old RSS. In this episode, the PCs’ f[...]
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Hopes for a New Edition

A few weeks ago, Mike Shea posted his five wishes for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition at Critical Hits: Better Solo Monsters No Action-Stealing Status Effects Optional Complexity in Character Creation, Simplicity at [...]
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Tiny Surrenders: Losing Talent in the 4E Community

Last week, I was greatly dismayed to find out that the game designers over on the At-Will.com site have thrown in the proverbial towel.  Quinn Murphy and Ryven Cedrylle really pushed at the borders of the 4E system, and[...]
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