Reading 6 and 7 year old posts in this journal makes me want to invent a flux capacitor, just so I can go back in time and beat the shit out of myself for being such an emo douchebag.

My life is currently awesome, by the way. How's yours?

My players impressed the heck out of me tonight. They took a throw-away flavor text room -- a subterranean garden shrine dedicated to Bahamut but long since desecrated and destroyed -- and spent roughly 45 minutes of effort restoring it, culling the taint from the diseased plants within, and consecrating it again ( Read more... )

PrologueSession 001 - Bertram and Rahlathus, a dwarven cleric of Moradin and a young eladrin wizard, come to the city of Fallcrest, where they establish a hostel for the city’s destitute and meet one Damian Graystoke-a human vagrant with a vendetta and dark powers from an unknown source. During his nightly prayers to the Raven Queen in the local ( Read more... )

Last night unexpectedly brought a close to the Butcher's Game campaign that my group has been playing since February ( Read more... )

Continued ( Read more... )

Catching up on campaign updates ( Read more... )

We've got more than two years of 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons under our belts now. While initially I was pretty hesitant to mess around with how the rules work, I have begun finding things I don't like at all. Potions fall into that category ( Read more... )

This is a homebrewed encounter mechanic that I came up with for my campaign. The characters are about to engage in a long and grueling battle against the Butcher's Legion -- a fight for the very survival of the Holy City of Rel Astra. I wanted to add in a mechanic for the players who have gritty characters that wouldn't just settle in for a good ( Read more... )

I have to catch up on campaign logs sometime soon. A lot has happened since the attack on Harker's Ferry. Our group has finally reached level 11 -- our first Paragon tier characters in more than two years of 4th edition ( Read more... )

I have been really into Westerns lately, even before I picked up Red Dead Redemption. I've been watching lots of Old West stuff on History, plus Tombstone and other Wyatt Earp movies. Even watched the entire Back to the Future trilogy this past weekend just so I could enjoy the third one ( Read more... )