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Can you run a gritty combat game with the 4e D&D rules?
The Gamer Dome | 22 hours ago
In the discussion about my last post, there seems to be a split along the lines of people who favor grittiness in their combat and others about whether or not the sheer amount healing in 4e can reduce the tension of combat. Personally, I think the am read more
Review: “Forgotten Heroes: Fang, Fist, and Song”
Critical Hits | October 9th 2008 by Danny
Overview: “Forgotten Heroes: Fang, Fist, and Song” (hereafter referred to as FH) is another option for adding Barbarians, Druids, Bards, and Monks into your 4e game before the official versions are fully released. Many of ... read more
He Said, She Said: Meet Joelle Al’Maera, Part Two
Geek's Dream Girl | October 9th 2008 by Geek's Dream Girl
The return trip to our town was quiet. I read a book of arcane magic while my mother alternated between sleeping and quietly weeping. She must have loved my father deeply despite their short relationship. I wondered what my grandsire saw in the read more
4e Forgotten Realms index challenge
The Gamer Dome | October 9th 2008
The downloads of my new 4e Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide index have been fast and furious since I launched it 24 hours ago. Reaction across the Web has been pretty favorable, which I’m glad of, but I really can’t wait for people to dive read more
Download the 4e Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide index
The Gamer Dome | October 8th 2008
Yes, it’s finally here! The odyssey began when I mentioned offhand that if someone bought me a copy of the 4e FRCG I’d index it, because I had no intention of purchasing it myself. Well, some virtuous reader sent me a copy of the book by read more
The more things change…
Critical Hits | October 8th 2008 by Danny
I have read the system - it’s a pretty nice system - but it’s no more a new edition of Dungens and Dragons than a 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee is a revision of a 1940s ... read more
Inquisition of the Week: Upcoming 4e Options
Critical Hits | October 5th 2008 by Danny
Last week, with comics on the brain, we asked what kind of comics you read. 62% of you read Webcomics, possibly because they’re great, possibly because they’re free. Second at 48% are mainstream comics that ... read more
Moradin’s Lass: Where’d The Slaves Go?
Geek's Dream Girl | October 3rd 2008 by Geek's Dream Girl
With our burly town guard reinforcements in tow, we go back to the monastery to try to rescue more of the prisoners. We leave five outside and take five inside with us, leaving them at the entrance to the lower level where we found the slave pens read more
Review: “Advanced Player’s Guide”
Critical Hits | October 3rd 2008 by Danny
Overview: Advanced Player’s Guide is one of the first licensed 3rd party products for D&D 4th Edition. It bridges the gap between editions for races and classes, providing options for those who miss certain iconic ... read more
He Said, She Said: Meet Andric Al’Maera, Part 1
Geek's Dream Girl | September 26th 2008 by Geek's Dream Girl
This is awkward, me grabbing this pen to tell you my story… Let’s face it; I’ve never been good with these things. Oh sure, I can write about military maneuvers, but telling my life, my story. Of course this is Joelle’ read more
He Said, She Said: Meet Joelle Al’Maera, Part 1
Geek's Dream Girl | September 25th 2008 by Geek's Dream Girl
My story starts long before my birth, though I won’t bore you with many details. My mother is a gifted healer, Lady Alisandra Stargazer, daughter of the elven king, Lord Quinn Stargazer. My father is Joel Rinn, a soldier from the human town read more
This s**t is EPIC!
Critical Hits | September 23rd 2008 by Danny
The Dragon magazine update for today (hurry, grab them as they come out before you have to pay or pirate!) is all about epic destinies for Forgotten Realms. It includes 3 new epic desitines: Elf High Mage, Harper of Legend, and Mythic Sovereign. Elf read more
Character Sneak Peek & Sitting On the Fence…
Geek's Dream Girl | September 21st 2008 by Geek's Dream Girl
I am very indecisive. I can see all sides of all things and sometimes it makes it very difficult to make decisions. Most of the time, I bug my boyfriend or Graham of CriticalAnkleBites.com for advice. (Usually Graham because for some reason the bo read more
Moradin’s Lass: Helion’s Bloodlust
Geek's Dream Girl | September 18th 2008 by Geek's Dream Girl
The next day, we speak to Lady Chauntessa and find that she’s updated Quintus already about the situation with the slavers. We decide to go to Mr. Silverheel’s place first with the charcoal rubbings we did of the door with the runes. &# read more
Moradin’s Lass: Black Bird, Black Night…
Geek's Dream Girl | September 14th 2008 by Geek's Dream Girl
We move further through the monastery, through a secret door and into a room with skeletons. I’m in the back of the group and by the time I get up to the room, they’ve already killed them. I throw out some sparkles and blast one to de read more
Moradin’s Lass: More Fun Than a Tent Sale
Geek's Dream Girl | September 4th 2008 by Geek's Dream Girl
So there we were with a tent falling on us and Moradin knows how many people attached to those feet sounds we heard outside. Drash slashes at the tent, makes a hole, and jumps out. “What’s out there?” I ask. I hear the crackle of read more
Summary of a campaign, Part 2
Neitherworld Stories | September 3rd 2008 by Stuart
...continued from yesterday's post.We headed back north with Rogenvald. The lich lived in a strange wild magic zone that was located north of the goblin lands. The only civilized inhabitants of this area are gnomes. Getting into the wild magic zone w read more
Moradin’s Lass: Lookin’ for Help in All The Wrong Places
Geek's Dream Girl | September 3rd 2008 by Geek's Dream Girl
So I’d just like to say that I’m still feeling kinda woozy after being all brought back from the dead. It’s kinda like that feeling when you know you’re coming down with a cold - just kinda weak and fuzzy-minded, I guess. read more
Review: “Treasure of Talon Pass”
Critical Hits | September 2nd 2008 by Danny
Synopsis: “Treasure of Talon Pass” is a an adventure for 4e D&D designed to take 2nd level characters to 3rd level. It is a fairly typical dungeon crawl that works well enough but also does not take advantage of environments and non-c read more
Battlegrounds: Alchemist’s Lab
A Butterfly Dreaming | August 30th 2008 by Scott, alias Ninetail
Interesting locations are important in fourth edition D&D. The rules are such that movement in combat is emphasized — and movement in a large empty room or a flat open field can get repetitive pretty quickly. It beats standing still and read more
10 Important Facts about the new Forgotten Realms
The Gamer Dome | August 28th 2008
The Forgotten Realms campaign setting gives us 10 important facts right off the bat to summarize the changes between this version and the previous version. I appreciated this rundown, as I’m sure all fans of the setting did, so I thought I̵ read more
Heroic Effort
A Butterfly Dreaming | August 28th 2008 by Scott, alias Ninetail
One of the worst things that can happen to a game is a string of bad die rolls. Through no fault of the players’, plots can be derailed, plans can go disastrously wrong, and characters can die. One traditional means of handling this scenari read more
Forgotten Realms index incoming!
The Gamer Dome | August 27th 2008
Well, it may take a couple of weeks after I receive the book, but an anonymous Forgotten Realms fan out there purchased the book off my Wish List so that all FR fans could benefit from a decent index! In the interest of fan unity, I’m calling f read more
4e from Two Months In
A Butterfly Dreaming | August 26th 2008 by Scott, alias Ninetail
It’s been about two and a half months since my initial reviews of the fourth edition’s Player’s Handbook (link is to the first of the series), Dungeon Master’s Guide, and Monster Manual, and about two months since I started pl read more
Moradin’s Lass: Tuesdays with Moradin
Geek's Dream Girl | August 25th 2008 by Geek's Dream Girl
So there I am, having an ale with Moradin, warming myself by the Great Forge, and he’s just about to tell me about my destiny when I feel myself being pulled away. I’d like to say that this is what ale must feel like when the tap is turne read more
Player Perspective on 4E
Stupid Ranger | August 25th 2008 by Vanir
I realize that a lot of people have posted reviews, etc, about 4E, and that really, it's not new news. But it was only recently that our group has actually had a chance to play a few short sessions in the new system, and I have a few thoughts to sha read more
Moradin’s Lass… is Dead.
Geek's Dream Girl | August 24th 2008 by Geek's Dream Girl
We wake up in our camp in the hallway. I’d just like to say that a bedroll is not so comfortable and the stench of mushrooms in this place is pretty bad. Oh well. The door at the end of the hall opens into a room with glowing blue crystals read more
Special Effects in Action
A Butterfly Dreaming | August 23rd 2008 by Scott, alias Ninetail
I have a deep and abiding fondness for the HERO system. It’s mathematically complex and not always elegant, but its core idea is one of the best ideas in roleplaying games, in my opinion. That idea is this: In HERO, you pay character points read more
Things About 4e I Learned from the RPGA
A Butterfly Dreaming | August 22nd 2008 by Scott, alias Ninetail
As I touched on in an earlier post, I had the opportunity to play in three RPGA games at Gencon. Three different groups of players, three different GMs, three sessions in a style completely different from my norm. These are some of the observations read more
The Hydra: an alternate view
Neitherworld Stories | August 21st 2008 by Stuart
Here's a slightly odd take on a solution to the hydra problem for 4e. A standard level 12 encounter for 4 PCs would feature (1) Hydra, (1) Skulking Hydra Head, and (4) minion Hydra Heads for a 6-headed hydra.I had to create a new mechanic for multipl read more
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