Although I’m generally quite forgiving of Wizards – and I do like 4e – I’m astonished at the levels of stupidity involved in the GSL. I don’t think it’s all intentional. For instance, I really don’t expect they meant the license to meana later publication of theirs to make a bunch of previous products illegal due to unintentional name duplication. However, they should have. They … Continue reading A few thoughts on the GSL
There are many things in the GSL that I’m not exactly happy about, the primarily one being how you cannot reprint statblocks from the Monster Manual, which will have horrible implications on the presentation of adventures. However, when it comes to the lack of “reuse” clauses for 3rd party publishers, I think they’ve got it right. This is pretty much how a lot of publishers … Continue reading You reap what you sow – GSL
Well, not quite. However, it’s nice to see the new article by Rodney Thompson in Dragon Magazine which adds a bunch of heroic-tier Wizard powers that allow the play of some illusionist-like abilities. When you come down to it, I’m a huge fan of the original 1e illusionist, although I feel they lost a lot of their individuality with the 2e merging of the Wizard … Continue reading Meet the Illusionist
This will be brief – I’ve been extremely busy of late at work and I’m working late tonight as well. While I have a few brief moments… We’ve almost finished the third Dawn of Defiance adventure. It’s been very James Bondian, which is something that you don’t exactly associate with Star Wars, Attack of the Clones aside. Of course, as I love James Bond, and … Continue reading Brief Star Wars post
At the beginning of this year, I’d planned to wrap up my Sunday afternoon (Ulek) campaign and start up new a 4e campaign for that group with Keep on the Shadowfell. I’d also planned to continue running the Friday Nighters through Savage Tide until we finished it (most likely at the end of 2008 or in early 2009) and then start playing 4e. The latter … Continue reading D&D 4e Dungeon Design Experiences
Well, it’s been a long wait since I wrapped up my 3.5e Ulek campaign, but today we got the chance to sit down and begin our first 4e campaign. My plan is to use the adventures published by Wizards for this initial run (whilst I run a Greyhawk homebrew on Friday nights). Players are Sarah, Greg, Adam, Nathaniel and Josh, with Josh being the only … Continue reading First 4e session
You know, it’s really weird, but the 4e cosmology as described in the new DMG seems almost perfect for Greyhawk. Let’s face it: if you, like me, rely primarily in the 1983 boxed set and the Gygax “Gord the Rogue” books for inspiration, along with the early AD&D adventures, there isn’t really all that much information on (a) the origin of the world and (b) … Continue reading The new D&D Cosmology and Greyhawk
This is just a short note to say that I received the D&D 4e core rulebooks at 12:30pm today (Thursday 5th June). I’m paging through them now; a closer inspection will have to wait until this evening. Bright! Shiny! And different. I’m not really sure how I feel about them. Expect a fuller report later. Continue reading Got the books!
Woohoo! In the mail today was my copy of Keep on the Shadowfell! I’m now reading it. So, we’ll definitely be playing it this Sunday. Will we use the pregens or our own characters? Depends how many copies of the rulebooks we have by then. The adventure looks beautiful; three full-colour poster battlemats, two booklets and a cardboard cover. Must get back to it! Continue reading I have Keep on the Shadowfell!
I was rather surprised to discover when I arrived home last night a parcel at the bottom of the stairs to my room, placed their thoughtfully by my father and stepmother. Inside the parcel were a bunch of D&D books, dungeon tiles and the Garg. Blue Dragon that I’d ordered last week. This was a surprise, because MilSims only had them down as “processing”, not … Continue reading Some games arrived!
