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The Rise of Tiamat - Metallic Dragons, Arise!
This evening we played through an episode that I've been looking forward to for a long time. Tonight we did episode 6, a scenario where our heroes had to try to convince the leaders of the metallic...
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Dungeons & Dragons - How To Get the Most Out of NPCs
This article is a compilation of things I've learned about handling NPCs in Dungeons and Dragons from running games over the years. Some of these ideas might not work for you. Everyone has their own...
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The Rise of Tiamat - The Maze
Xonthal's Tower and the hedge mazeAfter a couple of shaky weeks, we had a good session of The Rise of Tiamat tonight at the game store. A player's dad has joined us permanently, maxing the table out at...
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Tyranny of Dragons - Neverwinter MMO
 I normally write about tabletop D&D, but today I'd like to write about the online MMO known as Neverwinter, which came out a little over a year ago. I tried it and liked it when it came out, but I...
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The Rise of Tiamat - Xonthal's Tower
We played another session of The Rise of Tiamat at the game store last night as part of the Dungeons & Dragons Adventurer's League program. Something is happening to the group. Ever since that week...
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The Rise of Tiamat - Mission to Thay
These columns are being "syndicated" on a new site: Dungeon Channel. Dungeon Channel has all sorts of resources for Dungeon Masters, including maps, a dice roller and links. Check it out!I had...
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The Rise of Tiamat - Tiamat's Return
Tonight we finished The Rise of Tiamat at the game store and had the big battle with one of the most famous D&D villains - The five-headed dragon, Tiamat.Going in, I was keenly aware that even with...
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Princes of the Apocalypse - Alarums & Excursions
This week, we begin a brand new Dungeons & Dragons storyline in the game store. We finished The Rise of Tiamat last week, and now we begin Princes of the Apocalypse as part of the Elemental Evil...
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The Rise of Tiamat - Tomb of Diderius
It was extremely cold here in New York today. I figured that meant that nobody would be at the game store and that we'd have a nice quiet session of D&D. Who wants to go out and brave the cold,...
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Princes of the Apocalypse - Tomb of Moving Stones
Yesterday we returned to the game store to play some more of the new D&D Encounters adventure Princes of the Apocalypse. Our store is having a problem in that there are too many players and not...
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Princes of the Apocalypse - The Believers
In our store, three of the four D&D Encounters groups are still playing through the Tyranny of Dragons adventures. Mine is the only table playing Elemental Evil. I am noticing that seems to be the...
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Princes of the Apocalypse - Feathergale Spire
I kind of assumed that once Elemental Evil hit, attendance to our Wednesday D&D Encounters games at the store would drop off as people moved on to other things. That is usually what happens with...
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The Rise of Tiamat - Varram the White
VarramWe got in another special "bonus session" of The Rise of Tiamat yesterday at the store as part of my intense quest to get the adventure finished by March. We went three hours instead of two, in...
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Princes of the Apocalypse - Rivergard Keep
I was able to squeeze in an extra session of Princes of the Apocalypse at the game store today. It was Tabletop Day, a special event where people came in to play tabletop games (mostly board games and...
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Princes of the Apocalypse - Cult of the Crushing Wave
I have been trying to map out this campaign and figure out the best way to try to get the whole thing done by August. We have about 17 sessions worth of Wednesdays until mid-August. If I do just the...
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Princes of the Apocalypse - Shoalar Quanderil
Olhydra... I can't find the 5e art for her online yet.We had a very good session of D&D tonight at the game store, but we did not get nearly as far as I wanted to. It is becoming very clear that we...
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Elemental Evil - Princes of the Apocalypse
It has taken me forever, but I've finally finished this review of Princes of the Apocalypse. This adventure is part of D&D's second "storyline", Elemental Evil. First I am going to go over what's...
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Elemental Evil - A Guide to Princes of the Apocalypse
This page is what will hopefully be a useful guide for Dungeon Masters running the Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition adventure Princes of the Apocalypse.I will be updating this page often as I run the...
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Planescape - A Guide to Sigil, City of Doors
I am going through one of those campaign-planning phases again, where I do a lot of research for a campaign that may never take place. I am going to attempt to create a reference for the city of Sigil,...
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Princes of the Apocalypse - Iceshield Orcs
I've mentioned a few times that I have had a hard time reading this adventure. I finally finished my review of Princes of the Apocalypse, and started a guide to it. That means that I learned a lot over...
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