Request for comment: average damage

At OrcCon 2012, the Living Forgotten Realms games—or the Battle Interactive at least, where time is of the essence—used average damage instead of rolled damage. That is to say, instead of doing NdS + M damage, monste[...]
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Icosahedrophilia Podcast, Episode 142: A Sort of Homecoming, Part 6

It’s the third day of OrcCon 2012, and the second Icosahedrophilia episode released to celebrate the con! I Please listen now or subscribe via iTunes, Zune, or plain old RSS. In this episode, a fight breaks out rig[...]
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Icosahedrophilia Podcast, Episode 141: A Sort of Homecoming, Part 5

OrcCon—Strategicon’s President’s Day weekend event—started yesterday and runs through Monday. Celebrate with a new episode of the Icosahedrophilia podcast—and come back on Sunday and Monday for addition[...]
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Daemonomicon Adeliesce, First Tome

Spirits defend me, for I have seen such darkness, that my sky is always black. In the heart of that wasting land, Noshiki, I have been tortured by the most dire of horrors. Taken as a child by the brutal cults of the Eri[...]
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EN World Pre-Release Review – Heroes of the Elemental Chaos by WotC

Greetings fellow gamers!  It is Wednesday once again, and I have yet another new review on EN World News!  But I think today’s review will be rather exciting to D&D 4E fans out there, as I have obtained an advan[...]
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Map of the Adelian World

The expanded hex map of the World of Adel is complete. Read on for some idle talk and explanations about it. I like using Hexographer for maps. The sort of colorful look that the maps end up having reminds me of maps for[...]
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Active defense in D&D 4e: a thought experiment

Jeremy Baldwin (I think) asked on Twitter: “What if players did ALL d20 rolling? Attack and defense vs. static monster attack values?” He also wrote a blog post on the topic. The ICONS superhero RPG uses a sy[...]
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Icosahedrophilia Podcast, Episode 140: A Sort of Homecoming, Part 4

The Broken Promise has arrived in Erelhei-Cinlu, only to learn that Koralina’a must commit ritual suicide to atone for having been enslaved to the brown dragon Joulayanith back on Karvahl! In episode 140 of the Icosahe[...]
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Chatty’s Fort Wayne Adventures: Tales from the Elemental Chaos, Part 1

In which Chatty starts spinning his first of many tales about the games he played over at the Dungeon and Dragons Experience 2 provinces and 5 states away from home.[...]
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Wizard Watch: Are we “Uniting the Editions” or just selling more books?

oday I read Monte Cook’s new Legends and Lore column, Uniting the Editions Part 2 , and I have never been more flummoxed about D&D Next.  In my previous blog, Wizard’s Watch: The Quest for Grand Unified D&[...]
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Reviewing At Critical-Hits

Today I’ve got a review up at Critical Hits for Rogue Trader: Hostile Acquisitions. It’s a fairly long and detailed review in my usual way. I’ll be joining the fine folks at Critical-Hits henceforth, re[...]
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One-page 4e character sheet – free tool!

I’ve mentioned before that I prefer to have my character sheet be as compact as possible; one page if I can get it. This is one of my biggest annoyances with the online Character Builder compared to the old downloa[...]
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One-page 4e character sheet – free tool!

I’ve mentioned before that I prefer to have my character sheet be as compact as possible; one page if I can get it. This is one of my biggest annoyances with the online Character Builder compared to the old downloa[...]
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Icosahdrophilia Podcast, Episode 139: A Sort of Homecoming, Part 3

The Broken Promise finally arrives in Erelhei-Cinlu so that our heroes can fulfill their vow to deliver Koralina’a safely to her matron mother’s manse. Upon so doing, the crew learns of some strange happenings at the[...]
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Rules Do Not Protect Players from Bad DMs

This post started out as a comment on Geek Ken’s post about Rules as Insurance. It then got too long to be a productive comment. I’ll also admit that it started out with a bad attitude (“you’re wr[...]
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Madness at Gardmore Abbey: Session Four

Past sessions: Session One, Session Two, Session Three This is the recap of my fourth session running the Madness at Gardmore Abbey adventure via MapTool and Skype for my family group. As always, SPOILERS AHEAD. Sora t[...]
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Madness at Gardmore Abbey: Session Four

Past sessions: Session One, Session Two, Session Three This is the recap of my fourth session running the Madness at Gardmore Abbey adventure via MapTool and Skype for my family group. As always, SPOILERS AHEAD. Sora t[...]
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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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My points of light…

Who knew that former US President George H. W. Bush was a Game Master, and a groundbreaking pioneer at that! He spoke about points of light campaigns in 1989 almost twenty years before D&D 4th edition. What’s that[...]
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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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Quick Hits: January 2012

After taking a brief, inadvertent break from blogging recently, I thought I’d jump back in with some quick-hit thoughts on D&D Next, my own D&D campaigns, some non-RPG games I’ve played, the Order o[...]
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Quick Hits: January 2012

After taking a brief, inadvertent break from blogging recently, I thought I’d jump back in with some quick-hit thoughts on D&D Next, my own D&D campaigns, some non-RPG games I’ve played, the Order o[...]
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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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Download and Play D&D4e for Free — Legally!

According this a post on the RPGSite from Windjammer, there is an amazing amount of free 4e material on the WOTC web site -- and not behind their paywall. Enough material to play 4e for quite a while -- and without most [...]
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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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What about the Kobold of Winter, aka #20? A review…

“The Winter Kobold is coming!” If those were the words of House Stark, Eddard would have faced a different fate! Because the know Kobolds are powerful, dangerous creatures. Well at least that’s what Wolfgang Baur, [...]
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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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DnDNext, Modular Games, and Setting

When a new edition of the world's most popular role playing game is announced, people react. Boy, do they react...I'm uninterested in stoking the fires of the edition wars with this post. If you're looking for flaming of[...]
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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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Dinner with Gamers

Recently I sat down for dinner with friends at the Golden Place Buffet in Guaynabo. They happen to be gamers, most of them being the regular players in my campaign. There were a couple of other friends, the girlfriend of[...]
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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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Oldies but goodies! Some great digital game supplements for the New Year…

It’s really strange that I just classified as “oldies” some books that became available in digital format just a few short months ago. I guess it’s the nature of the digital age, the immediacy, and the ease of pu[...]
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Our thoughts on D&D 5th Edition

I have to admit that I was totally oblivious to WotC’s big announcement (which was first published by the NY Times) until my team member Youseph told me about it. But I don’t really follow D&D news for quite a w[...]
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It Slices, It Dices, It Possibly Does The THAC0

I'm sure by now you've heard the news. Beyoncé Knowles has given birth to a new edition of Dungeons and Dragons, and the Internets are ablaze. The epic ears of the Wizards of the Coast are now listening to user feedback[...]
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New edition of D&D – OnlineDM’s first take

So, the big news announcement on January 9 was indeed about the next iteration of Dungeons and Dragons. Lots of folks have been chiming in with their thoughts; here are mine. Modularity Wizards of the Coast has said that[...]
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Madness at Gardmore Abbey: Session Three

Past sessions: Session One, Session Two As always, SPOILERS AHEAD! The group left Winterhaven, escorting Sir Oakley to Gardmore Abbey on his quest to purify the main temple on top of the mountain. He explained that he [...]
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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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Opening for a gamer: Friday night MapTool game

Spread the word all: You could be the lucky person chosen to join an actual OnlineDM-run campaign in MapTool! Calooh! Callay! All right, so maybe this isn’t the most exciting news ever, but I do have an opening in [...]
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Madness at Gardmore Abbey: Session Two

Earlier sessions: Session One My party of three recovered from their run-in with giant spiders in the feygrove of Gardmore Abbey and continued making their way toward the orc village. Before long, they came upon a spring[...]
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