The definition of a good friend is someone who will come over while you're recuperating from surgery and surprise you with a one-shot D&D adventure. Thank you, thank you! I played Zane von Ronzel, disgraced scion of wealth (a cross between Raef and Jezal dan Luthar) turned thief, in debt to the Red Fingers gang for some 5000 marks. A gestalt fighter 2/rogue 2.I'm not the … [Read more...] about A Good Friend
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Yeah, I’m a gamer
Somehow, when I'm not playing, I can convince myself that D&D is not that big a deal, I can live without it, it's not as much fun since Mordecai became a gnome. Rationalizations, all. We played again after a month-long hiatus. I really do love the game. The interaction, the combat...the only thing that would've made it better would've been roleplay, but that's not really … [Read more...] about Yeah, I’m a gamer
D&D 4e report
I've delayed writing because of a week of sad and busy circumstances, but here it is, my assessment of D&D 4th edition, based on the game I ran last Saturday. A caveat: the party consisted of two PCs played by Scott and one played by me, when calculations for XP and opponent size are based on a party of five. That made it a little more challenging up front for planning … [Read more...] about D&D 4e report
Spell filter
One of the commenters posted this link in response to seankreynolds request for a spell filter: http://www.imarvintpa.com/dndLive/FindSpell.php Really excellent resource for 3.5. … [Read more...] about Spell filter
Skill challenges in action
We had an excellent session Saturday playing in the Mosaic campaign. Our goal: to gain information from Hakima Bahor, a boss rakshasa, who apparently has Derral Feodar in custody. Feodar is the guy whose journals were of interest to our now-missing masters, and about whom the other rakshasa, Hakima Avishandu, told us. The whole reason we came to gods-forsaken … [Read more...] about Skill challenges in action