This week over in twitter land and on a few other blogs (re-examining the dungeon, examining the re-examining, death to the dungeon, re-examining the re-examining, dungeons & newbie dms and freshly stocked for your enjoyment) the topic of the role of the dungeon in our games has been much discussed. The initial discussion spawned by …
A storm rages overhead as ogres and eladrin prance around the swampy clearing. Encounter Level 13 (4100xp) This encounter concludes a series of encounters featuring creatures that have been “touched” by the Feywild and the power of a Korred in particular. Korred are small dwarf-like fey that drive other creatures into a mad dance, and …
Please upgrade your browser “To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.” (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia) Those words are the opening description of Irene Adler, who I (at …
#dnd Tip: It isn’t always about the players. The DM has needs too. What about MY needs!? I’m not just a dancing monkey here to amuse you! (@AngryDM source) I’ll admit it that tweet irked me, and I think it might come back to why I’m a SissyDM rather than an AngryDM. (Much as I …
As the title says I haven’t gone away. Its just been a very busy couple of weeks and it isn’t slowing down just yet. I’ve been writing 6-9 encounters a week in that time, but will not be sharing them just yet. Suffice to say that soon things will be back to normal and I’ll …
4E officially introduced the idea of a quest as a trackable thing for DnD, with definite rewards tied to their completion. Sure they have been around for a long time, and sure we have been tying rewards to them for a long time, but 4E actually put it in the rules. One of the suggestions …