Wizards have posted a really good interview with Rob Heinsoo, the person behind a lot of recent D&D. However, his musings on 4e weren’t the most interesting thing in the article. No, he’s designing a new version of Three Dragon Ante! Now, that’s something to really look forward to! Continue reading Rob Heinsoo
D&D Home Page – What Class Are You? – Build A Character – D&D Compendium Continue reading Like I could have guessed already…
I’m currently running Pyramid of Shadows, the third of the Wizards 4e adventures. It has a nice set-up, interesting locations, a great hook, and, despite all that, is falling rather flat. Why is this? Well, in this writer’s opinion, it’s due to the incessant combat encounters with little chance for a change of pace. Now, I’m not against combat in D&D. Most of my campaigns … Continue reading Pyramid of Shadows woes
Well, we had a pretty good weekend of gaming – or at least, I did. 🙂 Friday night saw Martin take Adam, Greg and me through the end of part 5 of the Dawn of Defiance campaign, The First to Strike. We’ve struck a blow for the rebellion and the rights of all enslaved aliens everywhere! The campaign may need another player with Nathaniel likely having to leave. … Continue reading BattleTech and other boardgames over the long weekend
Yay! As of today, I’ve now written five-hundred session reports for BoardGameGeek. I rather happy about this. Have the session reports gotten better as I’ve written more of them? Honestly, I don’t think so. I think they’ve become more colourful, especially once I started borrowing my father’s digital camera to illustrate them and then bought my own. However, I do so much gaming that sometimes … Continue reading 500 session reports!
I’m very fond of the format that Catalyst Labs have created for their new BattleTech Record Sheets. I think they’re very stylish, and far, far better than the ones that the HeavyMetal program produces. However, for our S&D campaign, it’s likely we’ll be modifying some of the mechs at some stage. How do you get a CL-style record sheet when there isn’t a program to … Continue reading BattleTech Record Sheets
Last evening, I bought Swallowing Darkness, the seventh book in Laurell K. Hamilton’s Merry Gentry series. Three hours later, I’d finished reading it. Sure, it’s not the longest of books, but after I bought it I spent 30 minutes travelling home and also included a 15 minute nap. I read quickly when the book is good, and this one was excellent – just what I needed … Continue reading Books, books, books
Our most recent session of the Dawn of Defiance campaign, which we played last Friday, was the best so far, thanks in no small part to Martin’s running of the module. He put in a vehicle depot not mentioned in the adventure because it made sense (as there were vehicles harassing us elsewhere), which led to the wonderful experience of Nathaniel and Adam stealing a couple … Continue reading Star Wars RPG – Defying the Empire!
Missions – Basic Errors or ProblemsI’ll get to the problems with the optional complications somewhat later (and I’d appreciate any advice you have about them), but there are a few true oddities about the way the missions are constructed. In particular, none of the missions list in their “next missions” the Recon-in-Force mission! Yes, you can’t get to it at all! So, here are the … Continue reading Sword and Dragon – more Mission notes
Basic Mission Analysis:The various mission tracks show signs of good ideas not properly thought through. Why do you gain bonus points if its raining (making it harder to hit) in a Recon track where there is no Salvage option… so only helping the player? I’ve just done some analysis of the potential WP rewards from each track. This assumes you manage to salvage an average … Continue reading Sword and Dragon – Basic Mission Analysis
