With us getting back to speed with our roleplaying campaigns, I thought now would be a nice time to discuss the Castle Greyhawk campaign and where it’s going. Because – as you might know by now – I don’t have a clue! The original concept for the game was mostly as a dungeon-delve campaign centred about Castle Greyhawk (using the Castle Zagyg material from TLG), … Continue reading Themes and plotlines in my Friday 4E campaign
Due to one thing or another, my 4E Castle Zagyg campaign has taken a detour into Gary Gygax’s “Hall of Many Panes”, appropriately subtitled “an Adventure of Significant Length”. I picked it up for $10 during the recent TLG liquidation of their LA/d20 products (at the same time that I bought the Upper Works for full price). Although this campaign began in the same tactical … Continue reading 4Eing the Hall of Many Panes
My group finally (after seven sessions) finished Thunderspire Labyrinth. In contrast to the Friday campaign (more on which in a later post), the Sunday campaign has been running in a fairly by-the-book and tactical fashion. Brief summary: Friday: 4e, no minis, more freeform, lots of roleplaying and exploration Sunday: 4e, minis, more combat and tactical play Due to the holiday period, the attendance recently has … Continue reading Thunderspire Oops (some spoilers)
Yesterday, we had the latest session of our Thunderspire Labyrinth D&D 4e game. I’m very glad to say that it went much better than the last one, and I enjoyed it tremendously. Greg was able to make this session, so we had six players plus one DM (that was me, if somehow you haven’t worked out I’m normally the DM for D&D sessions around here). … Continue reading Good gaming in the Labyrinth
Something that is becoming more common in our Sunday sessions is that we spend a lot of the four hours we gather for not playing D&D. This session, we spent 90 minutes talking about Star Wars (RPG, films, computer games, novels, etc.) before we even got to the D&D session. And then we only played 2 encounters of the adventure, plus a third one introduced … Continue reading Sunday D&D… sort of
Bradford missed this session, but at least Peggy and Martin were more awake than last time. Not sure I was, though. It was a fairly short session as these things go, and mostly involved the group exploring the caves around the basement of Zagyg’s “Dark Chateau”. There were a few nice moments – the group was completely blindsided by a carrion crawler rushing out of … Continue reading Dark Chateauing the night away
The beta of the D&D Character Builder is now up – DDi subscribers only, and only deals with the first three levels (so far). Also, PC/Windows only. My initial impression? It’s brilliant. Very easy to use, has all the character options from official books and the mags, and the character sheet it creates also has all the power cards, in the proper colours, and with … Continue reading D&D Character Builder
I guess I wasn’t going to fail this check… Continue reading A nice moment in D&D Tiny Adventures
For all you D&D Insider subscribers out there, you can get a big, big preview of the Bard now. How big a preview? Ten levels worth. Yes, it doesn’t have all of its powers, but there’s enough for anyone who wants to play a bard in my games to do so. Let’s say this: They’re completely and utterly awesome. Their first level daily power Stirring … Continue reading The Bard previewed!
At present, I’m running one of my groups through the H series of Wizards adventures; we’re about half-way through H2 at present. To some extent, I think the adventures published for a game display the feel of that game far more than the core rulebooks do. When I think about AD&D, it’s not really the rules that I concentrate on: it’s the early adventures. T1-4, … Continue reading Thoughts on Wizards’ 4e adventures
