From the Wizards messageboard (click on names for links to posts): Scott Rouse (Questioner in italics) Ok, for real now: what about buying on Amazon? How this will be random for people who live far from FLGS? How can we know what is the “visible” figure? Each pack will have it’s own SKU # so you’ll know you are buying the troll vs the giant. … Continue reading Official posts and explanations
Scott Rouse, Brand Manager of D&D, has confirmed what many people had feared after recent announcements to a change in packaging for D&D Miniatures: the Skirmish game is being discontinued. After Demonweb, there will be no further Skirmish stats included in DDM sets. Instead, the line will focus more on supporting the D&D Roleplaying Game, 4th edition. Six Hero packs, each containing three … Continue reading The end of the Skirmish Game
Well, the news is out… D&D Miniatures is going a very big change. The Skirmish game is going to be dead, and the line will be aimed very much at roleplayers. As a non-skirmisher myself, this is ok from my perspective, but it sucks for a lot of people who’ve spent a lot of time and money on the game. However, I can’t say that … Continue reading D&D Miniatures
Yay! The latest errata has been posted for Star Wars Saga Edition! My character, Miles “Starkiller” Tradora, who is currently a Human Noble 7/Officer 1, has gained 5000 cr out of the errata, but it doesn’t seem much else has changed for him. Bunch of Force power errata, though I don’t know how much is new and how much is significant. Continue reading More Star Wars errata
I’m back writing RPG reviews. I’m not sure how long I’ll be able to keep doing them (writing reviews I find pretty draining), but for those who are interested, I’ve completed the following in the last few weeks: Castle Zagyg: the Upper Works (C&C) H1 Keep on the Shadowfell (D&D 4E) H2 Thunderspire Labyrinth (D&D 4E) Dungeon Master’s Screen (D&D 4E) Lands of Darkness #1: The … Continue reading Reviews!
Star Wars this week saw us almost complete Echoes of the Jedi. It also saw us missing our techie (Nathaniel) and our medical robot (Greg), which was incredibly not good. However, some of the opponents we were facing made me wonder what the heck is going on in development for the DoD campaign. One opponent we faced had us start down the condition track and … Continue reading Echoes of the Jedi
Once upon a time, I thought the 1st edition DMG was a great book. It’s something that is still espoused by its fans on the ‘net. However, I’ve got to say that my appreciation of it is dimming, partly from the fact that I actually have read the book many, many times in the past few years. It’s not something that I just remember from … Continue reading The AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide
The latest session of the Castle Greyhawk campaign saw Bradford’s dwarven cleric Floyyd suffer death at the hands of a few orcs serving Iuz (minions now of Adam’s traitorous warlock, Archibald). The group had been hired by Grey College to investigate the one-time mansion of Zagyg, which he lived in while his castle was built. Rich’s paladin was absent for this session. They avoided a … Continue reading Castle Greyhawk
It was only Nathaniel and Josh at the latest Thunderspire Labyrinth session (along with their pet goblin, Splug) and so I had another session of scaling all the encounters to three players. The group did horrible things to the bloodreaver slavers and then made their way to annoy some duergar. The last encounter almost saw a TPK, but Nathaniel demonstrated the power of the warlock and … Continue reading Sunday D&D
I’m becoming very fond of PDFs for my gaming hobby. Now, I love hardcopy, there’s no doubt of that. However, I’m finding it harder and harder to store stuff. So, PDF for the magazines? Fantastic! The other aspect of this is the rulebooks. I got very attached to the d20 SRD, but access to the rulebooks is even better. I bought the 4e MM pdf … Continue reading Roleplaying with PDFs
