This week saw the lowest turn-out since this season began, primarily due to a rather major convention (PAX) being run down in Melbourne, as well as illnesses afflicting several players. We had only 25 players – I expect numbers to rebound next week significantly. My own table continued to accompany the caravan north towards Waterdeep. I’ve cut out a lot of the intervening space – … Continue reading Hoard of the Dragon Queen, session 10
The folk at Trapdoor Technologies are no longer working with Wizards to create DungeonScape, as per this post. I am not terribly surprised by this. I received my beta invite about a month ago, only to discover a program that was rather terrible in its implementation. Apparently, the program was better for iOS, but the web version I viewed was awful. It had not improved … Continue reading DungeonScape no more
If there is one person I really wish Legendary Games would employ, it would be a competent editor. The Fiddler’s Lament is a short, one-session adventure originally designed to be used as a side trek during Paizo’s horror-themed Carrion Crown adventure path. This version has been converted to the 5E D&D rules and could be easily used as part of another campaign or as a … Continue reading Adventure Review: The Fiddler’s Lament
My AD&D campaign is in trouble. After three years of play, it’s getting towards the stage of being an elderly campaign and – quite frankly – I need a break from it. Yes, I know some AD&D campaigns go for year after year after year and by those standards this campaign has only started, but this particular campaign is feeling tired. There are many reasons … Continue reading The trouble with unbounded accuracy
This session saw the characters proceeding northwards with the caravan, spending a day in Daggerford, and ingratiating themselves with the cultists. I had a full table this week, with seven players and myself as DM. All in all, we had slightly above 30 players participating this week at Good Games Ballarat. My session focused a little more on role-playing and story this time around. I … Continue reading Hoard of the Dragon Queen, session 9
At long last, the first of the new Dungeons & Dragons comics has been release. Legends of Baldur’s Gate #1 sees Jim Zub (writer), Max Dunbar (artist) and Jon-Paul Bove (colorus) telling the tale of Delina, a moon elf wild mage, who begins the story fleeing from gargoyles who have been sent after her for an unknown reason. In her attempts to protect herself from … Continue reading Comic Review: Legends of Baldur’s Gate #1
The latest adventure product to appear on DriveThruRPG’s virtual shelves for Dungeons & Dragons 5E is Wanted by Assassin Games, subtitled as “A Collection of Short Adventures in an Urban Environment”. The adventures are written for low-level adventurers – levels 1-2 in particular, it seems. There are ten adventures in all. The product also includes rules for chases that a number of the adventures use, as … Continue reading Adventure Review: Wanted
The third module in the Competition series was The Lost Island of Castanamir, a 32-page adventure by Ken Rolston for 5 to 8 characters of levels 1-4. As a competition adventure, it gives guidelines on how to score various teams playing through the adventure. I wonder if they were ever used by anyone who bought the adventure? Ken Rolston is a significant game designer. His … Continue reading AD&D Review – C3: The Lost Island of Castanamir
There’s a lot of creativity required from the Dungeon Master when running this stage of the adventure, which is aided by preparation. I’ve been a bit distracted of late, so I haven’t been able to prepare as much as I really should be doing. Thus, for this session, I kept things fairly simple as the adventurers continued to accompany the cultist’s wagon up the Sword … Continue reading Hoard of the Dragon Queen, session 8
This Friday, I’m beginning a new Dungeons & Dragons campaign, the first homebrew campaign with the new 5E campaign system. As with my other homebrew campaigns, this will be set in the World of Greyhawk. However, I’m going to run the campaign in an area of the world I haven’t visited before: Onnwal. I’ve already written about a few of my early thoughts for the … Continue reading Starting a new 5E campaign: The Onnwal Rebellion
