Been a while since I've updated on Scales of War because it's been a while since we've played. Tonight we were able to gather and finish out our first adventure in the Paragon tier, Beyond the Mottled Tower. We found ourselves chasing an adversary from much earlier in the path ( Read more... )

I've been feeling like I've lost my way in my Friday homebrew. Somewhere along the way, I forgot what I was aiming for and now feel like I'm plodding through. My Saturday game, I have lots of ideas and clear milestones of where I'd like to get with the game (and my Saturday module game is pretty much no-fuss, just show up and challenge the ( Read more... )

"How strong is a gorilla?" seems like a simple question. Heck, I got "how str" and google was already filling in the rest of the question. But, no one has really studied this, so the best I can find is guesses and dumbass answers ( Read more... )

The worst thing about Dark Sun coming back as a new setting is reading posts from a percentage of people who need to prove how Hard their Dark Sun was, and that WotC will fumble this aspect and we'll get Candyland instead of their Dark Sun where you spend half the day dying from lack of water and half the day being oppressed by agents of the ( Read more... )

Started a new campaign Friday night(it seems like I use this phrase more than I should, but hey- two gaming days allows for more campaigns, and it lets our new player try out another character before she leaves us for a return to college ( Read more... )

Inspired by tfbretz in his RP blog.
I'm keeping busy in the RPworld- Fridays alternate between playing in the Scales of War adventure path and running my own homebrew dealing with an unending winter, artifacts misused, and the legacies of those who came before. Saturdays, I play in a homebrew and a newly started Eberron game, and I'm running Death's Reach ( Read more... )

When DMing, if I'm on the ball I like to make sure there's moments for everyone to be awesome during the adventure. Undead tossed at the cleric who demolishes them; minions for the wizard to crush; stupid monsters that swing and miss the rogue's astronomical AC vs. opportunity attacks, opening said monster up to the fighter's combat challenge free ( Read more... )

Saturday saw the start of my housemate's much delayed first D&D4e game, set in Eberron. He's starting out with the book adventure, going on to the Free RPG Day adventure, and then Seekers of the Ashen Crown, and whatever he comes up with after that ( Read more... )

Four parts of what I'm enjoying and will be enjoying in my D&D games ( Read more... )

The Empire of Nerrath is the first great empire of man. And it will be the last ( Read more... )