Well, I’ve spent a few happy hours today preparing for Friday’s session. I started running this new Castle Greyhawk game a fortnight ago, and between then and now have picked up part of Castle Zagyg by Gary Gygax. So, I’m integrating my CG material with his… Of course, all of Gary’s material was originally for oD&D, ported into Castles & Crusades, and now being ported … Continue reading Preparing for Friday D&D
There has been a reason I’ve never had a credit card until quite recently, and it’s this: I don’t trust myself. Of course, it doesn’t help that just after I actually finally get the card, MilSims have a big game sale, with 10% off all RPG products and 20% off all boardgames. I’ve spent quite a bit of money there in the last few weeks. … Continue reading Castle Zagyg: East Mark Gazetteer – a Review
I’ve now run three sessions of D&D 4e. This weekend, I ran the first session of my new Greyhawk homebrew for the Friday Nighters and then ran the second session of Keep on the Shadowfell on Sunday afternoon. There is definitely some familiarisation necessary with the system. The game does not play in exactly the same way as 3E, just as 3E did not play … Continue reading D&D 4E thoughts after the weekend’s sessions
For those who don’t know, “Aldie” is the co-founder of www.boardgamegeek.com, which I consider the most amazing gaming review & discussion site on the internet. He played his first D&D game in 15 years this weekend, using the 4e rules. His reaction is here:http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/321413 Interesting on seeing a boardgamer’s perspective on it. Continue reading Aldie of BGG plays 4E!
I’m something of a D&D old-timer, having started back in 1981. My current rating of the 4e DMG is somewhere about 4 or 5 stars (out of 5). At present, I haven’t actually played enough 4e to give it a proper rating, but here are a few of my thoughts on the 4e DMG. First, I’m not fussed with how many rules a particular book has. … Continue reading My thoughts on the 4e DMG
Although I’m generally quite forgiving of Wizards – and I do like 4e – I’m astonished at the levels of stupidity involved in the GSL. I don’t think it’s all intentional. For instance, I really don’t expect they meant the license to meana later publication of theirs to make a bunch of previous products illegal due to unintentional name duplication. However, they should have. They … Continue reading A few thoughts on the GSL
There are many things in the GSL that I’m not exactly happy about, the primarily one being how you cannot reprint statblocks from the Monster Manual, which will have horrible implications on the presentation of adventures. However, when it comes to the lack of “reuse” clauses for 3rd party publishers, I think they’ve got it right. This is pretty much how a lot of publishers … Continue reading You reap what you sow – GSL
Well, not quite. However, it’s nice to see the new article by Rodney Thompson in Dragon Magazine which adds a bunch of heroic-tier Wizard powers that allow the play of some illusionist-like abilities. When you come down to it, I’m a huge fan of the original 1e illusionist, although I feel they lost a lot of their individuality with the 2e merging of the Wizard … Continue reading Meet the Illusionist
At the beginning of this year, I’d planned to wrap up my Sunday afternoon (Ulek) campaign and start up new a 4e campaign for that group with Keep on the Shadowfell. I’d also planned to continue running the Friday Nighters through Savage Tide until we finished it (most likely at the end of 2008 or in early 2009) and then start playing 4e. The latter … Continue reading D&D 4e Dungeon Design Experiences
Well, it’s been a long wait since I wrapped up my 3.5e Ulek campaign, but today we got the chance to sit down and begin our first 4e campaign. My plan is to use the adventures published by Wizards for this initial run (whilst I run a Greyhawk homebrew on Friday nights). Players are Sarah, Greg, Adam, Nathaniel and Josh, with Josh being the only … Continue reading First 4e session
