Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition
A little over eight months ago, I wrote an article about Wizards upcoming releases and how they applied to the release of 4E D&D. Well, we’ve just had the releases for the first four months of 2006 revealed. How do they change things? Well, not much. As I mentioned in my last essay, most of these books are dependent on you having books other than … Continue reading 4E is still coming!
Last weekend was fun. I met with several friends and played a lot of games. Paradise! The weekend began on Friday afternoon withthe Living Greyhawk adventure War of the Dust. The adventure involved wilderness adventuring, dungeon-crawling, some role-playing, and a bunch of combat. My players love the combat part. What really distinguished this adventure from the others were the way that the terrain played a … Continue reading A weekend of gaming
As members of the Maxminis.com roleplaying community would know (and they well might be the only ones who read these musings…), I recently bought a bunch of second-hand AD&D 1e adventure modules. (The full list can be found in this thread). I started playing D&D back in 1982 or so; details are rather fuzzy this far away. In particular, I was introduced to both AD&D … Continue reading Old editions never die
Heh. Of course 4E is coming… and, I’m thankful for it. (How much worse would it be if D&D stopped being produced?) However, the recent “New Releases” list from Wizards has made it fairly clear to me that 4E is some way off. There are a great number of interesting products there – and the start of a few more series of products. What are … Continue reading D&D 4E is coming!
With the recent flood of new classes from Wizards, the problems with the 3e multi-classing system have become readily apparent. Of course, these may not be considered as problems by all. However, the problems that the Eldritch Knight and Mystic Theurge were designed to fix have become what might be a troubling part of the 3.5e system. What are these issues, and are they indeed … Continue reading The mechanical problems with Multiclassing in D&D 3E
Not D&D Miniatures news, but more personal: Eight Kings, the final part of Robert J. Kuntz’s Maze of Zayene series, has been published. I was involved in the d20 System conversion of the module, and so it has my name in it. I’m rather proud of this, as you might imagine. Eight Kings details a strange demi-plane in which the rightful king of the land … Continue reading Eight Kings…
A few months ago, I posted the plans of Wizards for D&D in the future – the various lines of Hero Builder books (the Complete series), the Race books (Races of Stone), the Monster books (Draconomicon), the Environ books (Frostburn) and so forth. With the Complete Adventurer, announced last week and due in early 2005, the series of the four Hero books will be complete. … Continue reading The Future of D&D redux
Just a note – I’ve started up a ‘blog for my regular D&D 3.5E World of Greyhawk campaign. If you’d like to see what my players are up to (and why I call myself the Killer DM on a few boards), here’s your chance to find out! Continue reading D&D RPG campaign
I’ve been enjoying reading through the Complete Divine. Although there are problems with the book (please, no more page XX! I have enough of those in my 1st edition Werewolf RPG book!), the rest of it seems fine to me. Even the Radiant Servant of Pelor doesn’t both me much – whenever I see a prestige class that dictates that you be a cleric with … Continue reading Complete Divine and where my money will be going
My latest musings are up, if you’re interested in that sort of thing. This time, Miniatures, my Greyhawk game and Settlers of Catan. Continue reading Musings – Sunday Gaming
