The Arcanacon convention will run on the 26th and 27th of January, 2019. I’m planning to be there with a number of other DMs, running D&D Adventurers League games for whoever chooses to join us. In addition, I’m hoping to have Fai Chen’s Fantastical Faire (for the first time at a Victorian event), providing more opportunity for D&D Adventurers League players to… do something magical. … Continue reading Arcanacon 2019
So, you’ve got an idea for a big adventure, and you’re going to release it as a trilogy or other multi-part series? Good for you! I love series of adventures. At least, I like most of them… Recent readers of this blog may have noticed I’ve been getting very annoyed at some recent D&D Adventurers League releases – both official and Convention-Created Content. These have … Continue reading Adventure Structure: Trilogies
I ran a third session using the Pathfinder 2 playtest rules yesterday, as I was joined by three of my friends and continued to take them through the level 4 adventure. After the third combat of the afternoon, we stopped and looked at each other, and we started to express how much we weren’t enjoying the game. Even Warren, who is a great fan of … Continue reading More Pathfinder 2 Playtest
The adventurers come to the end of the Aetherglen trilogy. Or do they? Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Death Beneath the Roots
One of the curiosities I’ve recently acquired is Warlock #7 – Fey Courts, a Patreon-funded publication from Kobold Press. This supplement contains four articles and one short adventure in a 28-page half-size booklet; all in black and white, it hearkens back to the early publications of D&D, although this product is far more professionally created than any of those. The articles are set in Midgard, … Continue reading 5E Supplement Review: Warlock #7 – Fey Courts
My Greyhawk campaign has continued over the past few months with a slight difference: the players now have two characters each. One new, low-level character and the older, mid-level character (about 8th level). Each session, the players choose which character they wish to use. I have no real problem running a session for differing levels; you just need to be aware of it – and … Continue reading Multiple Hooks, Quests and Consequences
I had a great game of D&D tonight. We were playing Quelling the Horde, an adventure from the 3rd season of the Adventurers League by Ron Lundeen. The adventure has its flaws; the combats, in particular, are often far too difficult for a party of Tier 1 characters. It also has too much content, which is a problem when you’re trying to run a game … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Quelling the Horde
Jay Africa’s The River Lord is a short adventure for level 3 characters. The adventurers are hired by a noblewoman who wants to ransom her wayward son from some pirates, but things are unlikely to go so smoothly. The adventure mainly consists of the one confrontation with the pirates. The players have a lot of agency in how things unfold, whether through role-playing, infiltration or … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The River Lord
Do you think you understand the City? Its squalid humours rising from waste, from too many; its people, great and poor? The Old City, where the unwanted live – say not, unwanted, but uncherished. From there the workers, the cleaners, the servants come, crawling from their unlit dens when the great sun rises, and the good and great require their work. From those unwashed middens, … Continue reading Sunset over Greyhawk
After 20 three-hour sessions, we have finished Storm King’s Thunder. We started in February; we finished in the last week of June. It was an enjoyable experience. The final session consisted of the six adventurers accompanying five storm giants as they attacked the Ancient Blue Dragon responsible for the chaos in the Storm King’s demesne. The session could have been better. I should have excluded … Continue reading Ending Storm King’s Thunder
