Long ago where the great Durnwood Forest rises into the Crystal Mountains there lived an elven wizard. Some legends say that he was an eladrin and dwelled in the feywild and his doom brought him to the mortal world. Regardless all the legends agree that his name was Estarias and that he was a mage …
It seems a strange thing to discuss, one of the original PHB1 4e adventures, and WotC’s popular encounter a week format? Yet the two are more closely linked than you may think. Thunderspire Labyrinth was the second in the heroic tier published adventures, and was set after the events of the Keep on The Shadowfell, …
As I mentioned back at the start of these articles, the catalyst for this process (just like many great adventures) was my discovery of an old map I had drawn. I had a general idea of what the world was like, but I’d need something more clear in my head if I wanted to be …
I knew going in to this creation process that the fae were going to play a big part of my world. They are a big part of that feeling of awe and magic that I like about medieval mythology. I started out wanting to totally transform the fey in D&D to something more like you’d …
Presented as part of the Winter is Coming Blog Carnival. This is a long post that presents in rough notes my Winter’s Reach campaign as it stands. The campaign started with 1 plot arc, and that was expanded and forked over time as more ideas came to me and more 4E content was developed and …
The air is chill, and natural light shines out of the cave… Encounter Level 3 (750 xp) At A Glance This room gleams with light reflected from ice and snow. The cavern is split nearly in half by an ice slicked ledge of at least 5ft. Slick ice is visible around the room.. Ice covered …
I had originally planned to construct a unique pantheon of deities for this world I was building, but when I rediscovered it and made the decision to basically overlay the D&D core world with it, it seemed much more expedient to just borrow the gods of 4e. I needed them to mesh with the themes …
In Part II, I briefly talked about eliminating certain classes and races from my campaign world. I’m trying to keep these entries short and easily digestible, and as such I left out the exact details of why I made the choices that I did. While chatting with hyperform and WolfSamurai in the 4e D&D channel …
Last week I began explaining how I approached PC races in my homebrew campaign. Allow me a tangent that will help explain part of my thought process going forward. I have long been a fan of the Dragonlance campaign setting, which is well known for being a bit quirky: there are no drow, no orcs, …
Around the end of 2010, I was in the middle of guiding my D&D group back from an unexpected excursion to the astral in the Forgotten Realms when the game hit a bit of a bump in the proverbial road. Given the opportunity to start anew, I seized the chance to pitch something different to …