I began my Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition game Sunday with character creation & a mini-adventure. I had a lot of fun - the rules are very smooth & fast-playing. The game is set in the default Fallcrest setting from the Dungeon Master's Guide, just to keep things hassle-free & enable other folks to run games in the same world for different sets of ( Read more... )

I ended up buying D&D4e on Saturday. Then went back Sunday to buy the Open Grave sourcebook, which contains the coolest monster ever. Unfortunately, I can't reveal it because all my players read my blog, and it's going to show up in a dungeon soon ( Read more... )

Considering working on a delve - my term for a massive D&D dungeon designed to carry characters through three levels. Question: What kinds of underground ruins would you expect to find beneath the fallen towers of a wizard tyrant? Say, Isengard or Barad Dur?

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The 25 Things meme, crossposted from Facebook.

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I'm reading The Coldest Winter by David Halbertsam about the Korean War, and just read a great quote about Ned Almond, MacArthur's deputy who pushed his army into the far north of Korea - right into an enormous Chinese trap from which few escaped. One of Almond's fellow generals said of him, "When it was time to be aggressive, he was aggressive. ( Read more... )

Star Wars Retold by someone who has only seen pieces of the first three films. This is hilarious - watch it!

If you like ghosts, you should check out darkdestination. Very cool.

Halloween!


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Happy Halloween!