Last year, I was proud to be a part of the Winter Is Coming blog carnival (http://gamerblog.twwombat.com/2011/09/winter-is-coming-rpg-blog-festival.html), a week long series of articles from some of the finest in the RPG fan community related to both Game of Thrones and winter and the arctic in general. This year, Mark Meredith has taken up the mantle …
Dressing up Zanzer Tem’s Dungeon
This is part two of my posts documenting my progress of building a 3d version of the classic Zanzer Tem’s dungeon. In this post, I want to talk about the moulds i’m using and how I’m aiming on giving the dungeon its own characteristics once i’m finished casting. Base – I’m using a fairly typical …
Rebuilding Zanzer Tem’s Dungeon…
I got into D&D over 21 years ago purely by accident, when I sat in my brothers Isle of Dread game, pestering him to let me lay on the Sega Genesis. Months later, I was given the “New, Easy to Master” D&D box set. This box, for Basic D&D, is TSR 1070, and was a …
Back to Bases
Wow the Reaper Bones Kickstarter raised an amazing $3,429,236 and some 17744 people backed the project most of them backing at the $100 level and receiving over 200 miniatures for their enjoyment (myself among them) in March next year. The thing is the Bones miniatures come with what is called a broccoli base, a lightly …
A late start to the “Classics Return” Blog Carnival
Gencon has been and gone, and i’m only just putting up the front page for the Classics Return blog carnival… I’m afraid to say that I failed the D&D community with this one, with a lack of support for the blog carnival, and a lack of effort on my behalf to get the items uploaded …
The Dogs of War
When I first considered what to write for the Classics Return blog carnival my first idea was to write up themes based on the Planescape Factions, then right as I was about to start the content for this month’s Dragon was announced including an article that would present themes for the Planescape Factions. Not wanting …
Giff Return
The Giff by Richard Green, illustrations by Symatt Of all the fantastic campaign settings published by TSR in the early 90s, Spelljammer is definitely in my top 3 (along with Planescape and Al-Qadim). The concept of the swashbuckling pirate-adventurer standing on the deck of her hammership as it sails through space towards a distant asteroid …
A return to spell research and manipulation
The Making of an Arcane Hero The world of Nerath is one of incredible power. Arcane energies, the result of the worlds exposure to the Feywild, Shadowfell and Underdark have permeated the land, and those with the skill and knowledge can draw upon this force and shape it, binding it to their will, and crafting …
A return of a classic ranger
The Daily Life of a Ranger “Within the city walls, Kergan was uncomfortable, the fmailiar sounds and smells of his forest home subverted by the raucous noise of the bustling marketplace and the stench of the open sewers. His visits to the city well infrequent and fortunately brief, he was here to collect the bounty …
D&D’s past is about to return…
Gencon, the best 4 days in gaming is almost upon us, and with it, the Classics Return blog festival. Here at Daily Encounter, we’re hoping that D&D fans of all editions will submit articles to us bringing items, adventures, races, themes, skills and powers that are missing from the previous editions of the game into …