Dark Sun. First box set. Dark Sun is a magic blasted wasteland. Harsh desert environments. Wizards drawing power from plants, and destroying if they pull too much too fast. Immortal sorcerer kings ruling the seven city-states. One dragon, great and powerful. Secretly, all the sorcerer kings are trying to become dragons themselves. Psionics for ( Read more... )

This is a tough one for me. Sure, I've always liked elves (and I thought drow were cool before Drizzt was a thing). With 4th edition, I took a shine to dragonborn and tieflings, for different reasons (and my first two characters under that system were of those races). I also dig warforged, once my initial feelings on Eberron (robots in D&D? wtf?) ( Read more... )

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The PCs hustle the freed slaves onto the wagon. From some mixture of diplomacy and force, they get the gorillas pulling the wagon to start moving. They can hear the howls of the goblin wolf riders, but they've blocked the kennels. By the time the goblins free their mounts, the PCs will be far and away ( Read more... )

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... )

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... )