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A Butterfly Dreaming
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A blog about gaming, focused primarily on pen-and-paper roleplaying games, and secondarily on video games. Articles may occasionally digress into other pop-culture topics.
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Stealing, By the Numbers (IV)
At about this point, I ran into another quandary with my adaptation of Shadowfang Keep. I’d eyeballed it at ten encounters, but, after four encounters in, I was running low on potential roleplaying encounters. There would inevitably be some...
Stealing, By the Numbers (III)
The courtyard of Shadowfang Keep, in Warcraft, is full of worgen, wolves, and undead servants. This was the first major change I made to the setting: given what I’d already decided about the two factions squaring off against each other, tha...
Barbarians at the Gates
Wizards of the Coast released the barbarian playtest article in Dragon a couple of days ago. This was originally scheduled for September, then pushed back a month. As of this writing, it’s still free, but it’s scheduled to switch to I...
Stealing, By the Numbers (II)
With the outline for my new players’ excursion to Shadowfang Keep complete, I next moved to what we used to call “stocking” the dungeon: placing monsters, treasure, and other elements inside and developing a map key. To begin with...
Stealing, By the Numbers
One of the most useful pieces of advice new game masters often get is: steal. Take elements of myth, literature, movies, and anything else that you like, and find ways of using them in your game. Recently I had an opportunity to demonstrate fourt...
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