Took Manipuraka down off the FLGS calendar tonight. One player showed up -- which is half as many as the week before, and still one more than the first two weeks. Monday nights, the store owner tells me, are rough there, to be certain, and it's a pretty niche idea in a niche hobby -- old-school dungeon-bashing ( Read more... )

One of the things that's terribly interesting, I find, as I work through Manipuraka, is how very different my design philosophy is in 2E than in 4E. I think the upper works of Manipuraka are a key example ( Read more... )

An interesting statistical note: I have posted just slightly more tweets as I have posted journal entries. This goes to show you that you can type a lot of 140 character bursts ( Read more... )

And so, in the final session of this season of D&D Encounters, the heroes finally defeated the hag Judy Garland and her basket of infinite Totos and cocaine.

I have pants (and two new shirts, to boot -- a man can never have too many white dress shirts). I also have the sad realization that I really have gained in the waistline. Boo hiss. I have to step up and actually do something about that, or else just accept that I have grown considerably fatter as I have aged ( Read more... )

Woo. Still getting over this cold. Took it easy most of the morning, and then after some productivity and dungeonbuilding (again I must thank gileonnen for introducing me to these Word War things that are making me actually put fingers to keyboard and write this dungeon out), I decided to get some cleaning done. I got some boxes moved around, up and down ( Read more... )

...because every DM must, at some point, break out the graph paper, and the pencils, and descend into those dark, murky deeps, writing level upon level of trick, trap, monster and treasure, secret door and concealed pit trap, and all the rest, until he has found himself with a grand mysterious deep ( Read more... )

Damn it, tonight is supposed to be the opening of my dungeonbash. It's not 100% ready, but I can get there in the next 8 hours (less some time to do grown-up chores). However, I'm coughing fit to beat the band and feel like crap, clutching my chest and feeling the ache. The head congestion has moved into my chest ( Read more... )

Going to be several posts, here, I think, in short succession, covering several topics, but it'd be best to break them up.

To start with: Thanks to the ever-clever soulscode, I have a new webtop to experiment with -- EpicTable, currently in beta. With that, I am considering the idea of starting up a new D&D 4th Ed campaign, based on the Chaos Scar ( Read more... )

I love being at Origins; it's a truly massive con, and there's always great games to play at it. It's fantastic. On the other hand, I hate Origins' web presence. Their site is consistently bad, their signup process is difficult, and getting the schedule set up is an exercise in frustration ( Read more... )