I’ve spent part of yesterday and today creating D&D characters for the new season of D&D Encounters: Beyond the Crystal Cave. We had 10 people turn up for our Saturday “Let’s Create Characters” session, and through a not-the-most-well-thought-out procedure I’ve ever enacted (we didn’t think about it at all), we first got them to name the two roles they’d like to play most; then the … Continue reading Creating Encounters Characters
When D&D 4th edition was announced, one of the things that really drew me to the new edition was the description of the Feywild: a magical land based on our tales of Faerie. It has taken a long time, but with Heroes of the Feywild, the D&D design team has finally turned their attention fully towards the Feywild. The result was worth the wait: this … Continue reading Heroes of the Feywild review – A marvellous book for D&D 4E
The D&D Encounters campaigns have had a rocky history in our town. We started off when they began, and wandered between one and two tables a week. Then came Christmas of 2010, and everyone disappeared. Not just for the holiday season, but for several months after that. This so depressed me that I stopped running D&D Encounters for a while. I’d run the first half … Continue reading My strangest D&D Encounters session
With a few new characters having been introduced recently, it’s probably a good idea to go through the gods they likely (or do) worship and what their goals are in the campaign. Just, in case, you have the urge to actually follow your god’s wishes or something. Pelor – God of the Sun, Strength, Light and Healing – worshipped by Chris’s character (Geran). Pelor has popped … Continue reading Gods in the Greyhawk campaign
Two packages arrived today. One of them held a lot of dice (5 sets) as I need to replenish my supply – some of mine have rolled off somewhere. And the One Ring RPG (Adventures on the Edge of the Wild)… the new Lord of the Rings RPG by Cubicle 7. It looks lovely. Two poster maps, two softcover books, 6 speciality dice all in … Continue reading A couple of packages…
After 67 sessions spread over 3 years and 5 months, Adam and Greg completed the H-P-E series of D&D 4E adventures, slaying Orcus in a titanic final battle, saving the Raven Queen and accomplishing their personal goals – Greg's dragonborn revealed her true majesty as Io, Ruler of all Dragonkind, and Adam's wizard went off to create his own plane – a land of endless … Continue reading It’s over! The Great D&D 4E campaign.
Splug, the goblin who the group encountered in Keep on the Shadowfell and has been adventuring with them from then on, has reached 28th level along with the rest of the party. I originally had him as a Goblin Rogue, but with the release of D&D Essentials, he became a Goblin Thief (as it was a lot easier to run). When we use him, we … Continue reading Splug the Hero
Just a quick update. In the past few weeks, my old AD&D/Basic D&D adventure collection has been expanded significantly (with a number of orders via ebay coming in), and it’s pretty close to being “complete” – as far as 1E goes, and Basic pre-85. However, a couple of interesting boardgames also arrived in the post today: Martin Wallace’s “Discworld: Ankh-Morpork” and Rich Burlew’s “Order of … Continue reading A couple of new boardgames… Discworld, OOTS
Every so often, I get the desire to get a few more of the old AD&D and Basic D&D books and adventures that I still don’t own, and so onto ebay and online 2nd hand stores I wander… The results of my latest set of purchases is now sitting on my table, and includes such items as Dungeon Geomorphs – I actually owned a copy of … Continue reading A pile of old D&D books
I was meant to be running D&D today, but a couple of late withdrawals from the session caused it to be cancelled. (As I haven’t had much internet access over the weekend, I hope Adam and Greg got the message Josh sent them). I had thoughts of going to see Cowboys and Aliens, but as it turned out I spent the afternoon playing in the … Continue reading Magic Day and other recent gaming
