Campaign Interludes 1, part 1
As part of world building and showing the consequences of their actions I as the DM have been writing brief interludes and explanations on the city of Gloomwrought. Some of these deal with the party...
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This interlude occurs directly after the events detailed here. Link: “Murder And Kidnapping” — Continued from Part 1. Graves’ imminent departure worries Akordia, though she doesn’t voice her concerns....
View ArticleDnD is Full of Shift
I was chatting with cookiemonger about something tangentially related to what I’d like to talk about. I’ll try to hit the highlights of my thought process. The design I was working on centered around...
View ArticleDoomed To Repeat Myself
I think it’s that time again — I think before I can really “move on” to the stuff I want to do, I’ll have to create another Player’s Handbook Remix. It feels in some ways like “taking a step backwards”...
View ArticleEncounter Power Traps
I’ve been thinking about this for a couple days. Several Essentials classes like the Slayer and the Thief get these Free/No action encounter powers with additional uses as they rise through the levels....
View ArticleFound My Notes
Some things get lost when you move. Some things get found. Like all of my notes for the Praise of Stone campaign I ran from 2012 to 2013. I found the notes I made for summarizing the events of the...
View ArticleDelfina and the Wolves
Delfina and the Wolves The most obvious suspect was the dead official’s family. This proved to be a dead end however, as not only was the recently-dead official disliked within his own family, but the...
View ArticleThe Road to Delphi
It’s worth nothing that while I was open to the idea of the players going wherever and doing whatever, we’d been playing in and around the Haliartos tri-city area for several weeks, and it looked like...
View ArticleAnother Nail In the 4E Coffin
No one can be quite so critical of a thing as an insider. I’ve circled this particular issue before, but I don’t think I ever really put it out there in a straightforward manner — there is a PROBLEM...
View Article4e: Something About the Dawn War
There are a few events in D&D that get some press from one edition to the next. Vecna will be betrayed by his lieutenant Kas again and again. Though the details of what happened (and one came next)...
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