Initiative Or What?

Greetings, Kids! I hammer out this post even as my lovely wife, Anna, is baking sugar cookies. Looking up and over the credenza I can see the decorated tree with its pretty ornaments & colorful...

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There is a trend with RPGs that I've noticed over the years. When a game first comes out, everyone jumps right on board, playing the game as it was written, glossing over the bumps, and occasiona...

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Greetings, All! As many of you know, I've been working on a 4e campaign set within the Myst universe. My approach to this has been multi-modal, utilizing all sorts of special terrain, rules, ha...

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Greetings, All! It's been awhile since I've done any blogging, as I've been working on a pretty big project that was finally completed. In a few days, I'll be posting pics and information on my...

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Greetings, everyone! So I was chatting about treasure determination and it was mentioned that it would be nice if there was a way we could roll up treasure without having to consult a bunch of ...

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Ever since Mordy's Book came out, there's been a lot of talk online about rare magic items. Some folks thing they're just the thing to fix what they see as a broken system. Others think these it...

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Once again, from the Dead Orcs Campaign Files comes another solo adventure. Featured today is the solo adventure of the party's Ranger. Lenneth is an elf Ranger that specializes in the use of t...

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So despite spending all morning yesterday waiting for jury duty that never materialized and a trip out to the company's super-secret fortress of research and development, I managed to pop on to T...

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Once again, from the Dead Orcs Campaign Files comes another solo adventures. Featured today is the solo adventure of the party's Wizard. Sovelis (no relation) is an Evocation Wizard whose forme...

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Continuing my series on solo adventures, this week, we take a look at the solo adventure our groups Paladin went through. Zurgas is a Tiefling Paladin of Pelor. He was originally being trained...

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This story starts with a fortuitous visit to the Purina booth at the Central Veterinary Conference. After participating at one of their little "touchscreen interactive centers" or what have you, ...

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This post begins a series which will highlight the brief solo adventures I used to introduce themes for the heroes in my campaign (and to buy time in order to finish another project related to th...

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Around GenCon time last year (2010), WotC reintroduced a favorite campaign setting from back in the 2nd Edition days - Dark Sun. While reviving many of the great "survivalist" features from the o...

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So it seems the one big event that I missed at this year's GenCon, was a little thing called TRUE DUNGEON . I'll let you read the details at the link. When you're done (if you don't get hooked), ...

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Greetings! This will be the last of my GenCon posts for this year, and I saved the best for last. A lot of folks that do not get to attend GenCon like to know what kinds of things can be found ...

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You can't meet great people and hold great events without a good facility in which to do that. For this GenCon wrap-up post, I want to talk a little bit about the convention center and the hotel ...

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Welcome back to my wrap-up of GenCon 2011. As you can see, I was pretty impressed by the caliber of people I met while at the convention. Most of these folks I met while attending some pretty coo...

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I am back from GenCon! Yep, that's right, and what an amazing experience it was! The people, the events, the facility, the acquisitions...everything about the convention was pretty amazing. So ...

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Greetings, Kids! GenCon 2011 is almost here, so I thought I would get my schedule put up for those of you that might want to come find me to hang out, play a game of something, or what have you...

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Greetings! As GenCon approaches, and all eyes turn towards Indianapolis, I thought it might be fun to share with you one of the things I'd be doing to celebrate my return (it's been 7 years!). ...

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I'm probably breaking a major blogging rule here, but I wanted to let all my loyal readers know that I AM STILL HERE. Summer is usually a slow time for the blog, as my free time (particularly a...

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Okay, I admit it. That was a pretty bad pun. Or it will be when you find out the topic of this latest post. Just this morning, Adam Page (@blindgeekuk) was showing off some sample blocks from H...

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Some weird things happen on Twitter. A few months ago, one of my Twitter friends by the name of Brian Patterson (@d20Monkey) was referring to my avatar. The long hair, and "smoky" expression (I...

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Yeah, this will drive traffic to the site. Well, you can blame Brian, the creative genius over at d20monkey for this one. He posted THIS COMIC , and I couldn't help but take it from there. B...

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Wow. My brain is still humming after last Friday's Twitter conversation. I had caught wind of, in my feed, of some discussion of what WotC (Wizards of the Coast) was or was not doing to market ...

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