Last week, the guys over at Search Engine Lowdown decided to write a satirical post about the Anti-Geekery League, a made-up organization out to combat geeky practices wherever they are found. JP was the first up, and it was hilarious. More significantly, however, nobody was able to answer his trivia question (which, to [...]
According to an article I caught on Slashdot, you’ll soon be able to download Dungeons & Dragons books as PDFs. At first, I thought it was great news. After all, you can get the book instantly and have it available for searching from your computer. If you’re a savvy DM with a [...]
Whether it is a tradition among other gaming groups or something specific to my friends and I, I really couldn’t say. I do know that it predates my lifetime of gaming experience, and must therefore be at least 14 or 15 years old. We refer to this tradition as the “food challenge,” and [...]
For any low-level D&D character interested in making magic items, there aren’t many options. The best you can hope for are potions, scrolls, and a few measly wondrous magic items. Of course, the system is infinitely extensible, so any number of options exist for the creative player. Still, the Dungeon Master’s Guide [...]
I have been intrigued with the warforged race of the Eberron campaign setting since I first read about them. So much so, in fact, that I have been carefully examining the rules to see just how far I can take them. In my search, I asked myself the question, “Can warforged accomplish overland [...]
I must tip my hat to the folks who created the Eberron D&D campaign setting, because they managed to come up with some very exciting options for character creation. Lately, I’ve been hard at work creating components for my new warforged artificer. The combination of a living construct who specializes in magic item [...]
Character concept and backstory of a warforged artificer in the Orn D&D campaign setting.
While checking out Slashdot the other day, I came across an interesting blog post called 9 Lessons GMs can Learn from World of Warcraft by Martin Ralya. It’s all sound advice, and very valuable to anyone like me who enjoys their tabletop roleplaying alongside its massively multiplayer counterpart.
One thing to really take away from [...]
While Stumbling one day awhile back, I happened upon a very nice automatic dungeon generator for Dungeons and Dragons 3.0. The script is very robust, allowing for a great deal of customization. As a Dungeon Master who never has enough time to plan out every minor detail, it has been a godsend. [...]
In over a decade of playing Dungeons and Dragons, I’ve runt he gamut of ability score generation methods. I’ve seen the extremely conservative 3d6 six times, in order method that was supposedly the traditional way of doing things from the original game. I’ve seen that evolve into 4d6 six times, drop the lowest, [...]