We remember the Hammer-maker. His mother was the City, his father was the Work. He grew large on the milk of the city; he was the last of the giants. The Hammer-maker was born for war, but he loved only the anvil & the Riddle. He loved the anvil & the Riddle but alas for him, Swords & secrets loved him. His hammer did not ring at the forge, ( Read more... )

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sunday: a success! with a tough act to follow (seeing as how my last sesssion was pretty great), i pulled it out & the player characters won all the marbles! personally, i prefered the prior sessions roleplaying & fairy tale options (sinilind the magical bluebird! kaval ants!) with its many options for character skill & spell use, but i think ( Read more... )

it isn't my fault. i am world renown for how gentle i am to my player characters. as a dungeon master, i am basically an ewok. so small & fluffy, just so. & on top of things, today was the "lets be friends, build party unity, & establish the characters as forces within the city." & well, for seven hours, they were even doing it! they were ( Read more... )

HealingAfter taking damage, you can recover vitality points & wound points through natural healing or through magical healing. In any case, you can’t regain vitality or wound points past your full normal total ( Read more... )

if people's characters keep having nervous breakdowns &/or post-traumatic stress disorder in my dnd game, does that mean i am a good dungeon master? fairly pleased with last night's session, which for all my stressing out over it (yeah- stressing out. i do a lot of prep work, okay?) went pretty much according to plan. i have some bare bones ( Read more... )

i drew up the solar system of my dnd cosmology in the bathroom at the store today, all in multi-coloured markers. all the planets in a row, dot, dot, dot; dash, dash, dash, dash; dot, dot, dot. all part of my gearing up for a big, big sunday upcoming in two weeks time. tommorow marks the start of gerd's catch-up sessions. he's been out of the ( Read more... )