Dungeons & Dragons - A Guide to Downtime
I posted a new youtube video - episode 5 of the great modron march. It's NSFW. Today I am going to write about downtime, the system of between-adventure rules created for 5th edition Dungeons &...
View ArticleDungeons & Dragons - A Guide to Yeenoghu
Out of the Abyss is going to be out soon, and wizards of the coast has been releasing material on each of the demon lords involved in the adventure each week. I figure that now is a good time to jump...
View ArticleThe Great Modron March - Mysteries of the Dead Gods
Last Sunday we played through a special session of the Planescape campaign. I wanted to use material from a planescape article by Monte Cook in Dragon issue 240, "Mysteries of the Dead Gods".Basically...
View ArticleDungeons & Dragons - Inter-Party Combat
I am going to try and write about a really tricky topic in D&D - inter-party combat, conflict or competition. Some younger players refer to it as "PVP". It is when one character gets in a fight...
View ArticleUmbra - The Screaming Tower
InimigleTonight we started a new planescape adventure called "Umbra" by Chris Perkins. It was published in dungeon magazine #55. I am converting it from 2e rules to 5th edition, which is very easy to...
View ArticleUmbra - The Zactar Cathedral
Umbra, the alu fiendOn Sunday night, we finished up Umbra. I think it's safe to say that the adventure more than lives up to its reputation. If you break it down, here's what it has:An exploration of a...
View ArticleDead Gods - Initial Forays
I know I've been absent for a few months on the blog, so I have a bit of catching up to do. My group is pretty far into Dead Gods as of this writing. Over the next week or two I'll be posting summaries...
View ArticleDead Gods - Circean Embers
This is chapter 2 of Dead Gods.. or, I guess, chapter 1 of the"Out of the Darkness" of Dead Gods. The book is broken into two intermingling adventures, if you recall.It is always painful for me when...
View ArticleDead Gods - Crux
In this session of Dead Gods, we finished chapter two and played through chapter 3. Last time, the adventurers were inside a walking tower, owned by a wizard named Tiac Nami Ro. Theran had touched his...
View ArticleDead Gods - Masks
CruxI don't know if I mentioned this, but if you're wondering why I run for 2 players, there's a few reasons:We play at midnight on Sunday night/Monday morning, which most normal people can't do. But...
View ArticleDead Gods - Crossed Swords
This adventure is part two of the second storyline in Dead Gods. If you remember, part one of "Into the Light" was about a temple that some factions were fighting over.This scenario is very short, so I...
View ArticleDead Gods - Message From Thanatos
This chapter is where Dead Gods really starts to kick into gear. I really like this and the next few adventures. I feel like up until now, the slow burn was too slow. The Heroes(Jessie) Bidam -...
View ArticleDead Gods - The Bottom of the Multiverse
I knew tonight's game would be tricky. I wanted us to get through this whole chapter in one sitting, but as written this dungeon has a lot of combat. I really liked this dungeon, so I decided not to...
View ArticleDungeons & Dragons - Dragon Plus Issues 1-5
In this article, I am going to go through the first five issues of Dragon Plus. Or.. Dragon+. I just feel funny typing that. When Dragon Plus came out, I had heard it was mostly a "house organ". I...
View ArticleRage of Demons - A Guide to Out of the Abyss
This is a reference to help Dungeon Masters running Out of the Abyss, the new adventure for the Rage of Demons storyline. Collected here are links, advice and reference material I've dug up from the...
View ArticleDead Gods - Tcian Sumere
We finished up Tcian Sumere tonight. It's a very good dungeon. I tweaked a few things, namely a xeg-yi that's in this observation hall. It's not meant to be fought, and really it's just an odd...
View ArticleRage of Demons - Out of the Abyss
Out of the Abyss is the tabletop Dungeons & Dragons adventure for the Rage of Demons storyline. In this article, I am going to review the book. I'm not going to go into too much detail, as I think...
View ArticleDead Gods - The Plain of 1,000 Portals
Tonight I did something I don't normally do. I expanded on a section of the adventure, stretching it to fill a session.In the book, the heroes set out for the Vault of the Drow. They're supposed to...
View ArticleDungeons & Dragons - 5th Edition So Far
Now that I have gotten caught up with Out of the Abyss, I'd like to take some time to talk about the current way the D&D team is handling things. Back in November, Chris Perkins gave us a lot of...
View ArticleDead Gods - Vault of the Drow
Tonight we got to a really interesting part of Dead Gods. The heroes had to go to the Vault of the Drow on the world of Oerth (aka the Greyhawk setting). They're looking for a drow named Erehe, who...
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