Campaign Concept Pt. 3: The Empire of Tel
Following the last couple of days, we have a new campaign concept, the Empire of Tel. Magic, as we know it, vanished over 200 years ago. The fey races have faded, leaving humanity as the sole power in the world. Magic i[...]Read on >>
Campaign Concepts Pt. 2: There Is Only War
Continuing on from yesterday’s post of campaign concepts, I present the idea of running a campaign in a war-devastated world: There Is Only War. One hundred years of warfare takes its toll. The once great cities of[...]Read on >>
Campaign Concepts Pt. 1: The Colonists
I’ve been thinking about new campaign concepts recently, how to break the mold from the traditional fantasy game, and have come up with a series of different concepts I think could make for some pretty great rolepl[...]Read on >>
The Deck of Many Things
One horrifying artifact from older editions of D&D was the Deck of Many Things, an object of supreme power that could either shape or destroy campaigns on a whim. For those of you who are new to D&D via 4e, here&[...]Read on >>
Off the Shelf Review: Cityworks
It’s been more than a year since I’ve done one of these, so I decided to do an Off the Shelf Review. For those who don’t know what that means, it means I grab a random game book off my shelf and talk ab[...]Read on >>
Review: Conflict Roleplaying Rulebook
I was sent a free review copy of the Conflict Roleplaying Rulebook recently by Conflict Roleplaying, and have perused it. Conflict is a roleplaying game supplement by Mark M. Scott for the Pathfinder and OGL d20 rule sys[...]Read on >>
Spells Not Worth Memorizing
Have you ever looked over a spell list and wondered what it’s doing among such powers as polymorph and fireball? I found a post up online titled “Spells Not Worth Memorizing.” Here it is, for your amuse[...]Read on >>
D&D For Kids
Big applause for Wizards, who have released, for free, a version of D&D for kids entitled Monster Slayers: The Heroes of Hesiod. Apparently, it’s based on a new book D&D is coming out with. What I really li[...]Read on >>
My Take on Gaming in Remote Locations: The U.S. Navy
Over at Stargazer’s World, Youseph interviewed one of his buddies about playing D&D while in the Navy. It’s a great interview, and you should check it out. I had a similar experience while deployed back i[...]Read on >>
Clarity on Parting with 3e
I realized I didn’t fully clarify yesterday, in reference to my post Parting with 3e. I’m not getting rid of all my books. Only the ones I truly know I will never use ever again, not even if I went back to 3e[...]Read on >>
Parting with 3e
Steadily, more and more, my collection of 3.0 D&D books is dwindling. I’ve been slowly taking them into the game store, knowing I’ll never be using some of them again. I just put a big collection of them [...]Read on >>
Pictures from my Computer: Shadows of the Last War
As previously mentioned, I’m finding images I had forgotten about from my computer and posting them here, giving a little bit of backstory on how these images came to be. Today’s: This is another one that did[...]Read on >>
Pictures from my Computer: War of the Lance
While on deployment in 2007, I would get really bored sometimes. The mere mention of the idea of a new campaign would get my mind racing. So naturally, I would put together images in photoshop of the upcoming game. Wheth[...]Read on >>
My Worst Session Ever
It was 2004. I was working at Getaway Games on Garland St. in Spokane, WA. One of the regulars, (we’ll call him Bear, since that’s what he reminded me of) asked me if I was interested in joining his D&D g[...]Read on >>
Make It Your Own
Make it your own. This is the unexpressed tenet of all roleplaying. On an earlier post, my good friend Mark expressed that if you’re not having fun, then what’s the point? I couldn’t agree more; howeve[...]Read on >>
Pathfinder Sells Out
August 6, 2009 from A Butterfly Dreaming
Filed under: 3e d&d, RPG Hub, Review, industry news, pathfinder
According to Paizo, as of Monday, their Pathfinder game’s core rulebook has sold out its first printing. Now, this is mostly distributor orders — not actual sales — and there’s no indication of [...] Filed under: 3e d&d, RPG Hub, Review, industry news, pathfinder
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Of Possible Interest… (PDFs)
…EN World is offering a whole bunch of assorted PDFs for $1 each. The sale runs until Gencon. I know, I’m a little late with this one, but it slipped my mind. My free time has mostly been occupied with [...]Read on >>
The Rules Gap
In my experience, people who play D#38;D #8212; and roleplaying games in general #8212; have two ways of looking at the rules. Some try to make their games fit the rules. Others try to make the rules fit their games. Tal[...]Read on >>
Defining Roles
(This is a reprint. This post was originally published on July 30, 2008. I#8217;ll be touching on the subject again #8212; and on how it#8217;s changed thanks to the new books that have come out since I first wrote t[...]Read on >>
War and How to Wage It
March#8217;s RPG Blog Carnival on War, hosted by The Book of Rev, will soon be drawing to a close. Before it does, here#8217;s that post I promised about war within a fantasy setting. The typical D#38;D campaign is se[...]Read on >>
What DD Is (To Me)
Bookending my previous post, in which I speculated about what D#38;D means to different groups of players. I didn#8217;t think this post was necessary, originally, but a comment by Brian Gleichman has convinced me othe[...]Read on >>
What is DD, Anyway?
Jeff Rients of Jeff#8217;s Gameblog, who ordinarily has interesting things to say, recently decided to instead rant about 4th edition in a couple of posts, starting with positing an unbridgeable gap between old-school an[...]Read on >>
Ten Monsters I Love (But Rarely Use)
I thought I#8217;d chip in on the latest subject to be making its way around the RPG blogs. Instead of just my favorite ten monsters, which would include common reliables like kobolds, dragons, and vampires, though, I [...]Read on >>
