The Monte Cook Question
There seems to have been a fair bit of discussion around the web over Mike Mearls’ annoucement that Monte Cook was rejoining the R&D team at Wizards of the Coast. What did it mean? Where are they...
View ArticleWizards Watch: Fey Paragon Paths
The Feywild is one of the best additions, IMHO, to the 4E D&D cosmos. My current campaign strongly features the overlap of the normal world and its Fey and Shadow ‘mirrors’. Right now, some of the...
View ArticleWizards Watch: Out of the Bag …
Well we all knew it was coming, based on the Legends and Lore columns from 2011 (I posted on these last week…), but I’m still surprised it’s out publicly already: A New Edition of Dungeons and Dragons...
View ArticleContent Corner: Buying a Horse …
As promised in my post ‘Taking Stock…‘, on New Year’s Eve just gone, I’m starting several monthly columns as a way of challenging myself to achieve a regular, albeit light by the standards of many of...
View ArticleMap of the Month: Jonathan Roberts Style Battlemaps
Welcome to the debut of a new column, Map of the Month. Here is where I get to share my passion for fantasy cartography, which I’ve been hooked on since I was a kid being read the Narnia and...
View ArticleContent Corner: Spider Fey
Recently in the 4E campaign I’m running for my kids, the party had a little detour to the Feywild, to rescue a unicorn foal from some evil fey brigands. When designing the short adventure, I was...
View ArticleDM for Kids: DM Style
GM Merit badges are cool! After coming across this neat set of icons (I know, quite late compared to everyone else…) intended to reflect a GM’s approach to their game, I thought it would be fun to...
View ArticleContent Corner: Rats Below
Earlier this month I posted an iBook publication of a short delve in my RPG Tech Talk column. This was an example of using a new Apple application to create richly formatted publication for viewing on...
View ArticleWizards Watch: Summer lull; Storm clouds gather…
There seems to be a strange eerie calm around the RPG space right now. It’s not necessarily the sort of calm that makes you feel calm … its more the oppressive lull before the thunder booms and the...
View ArticleContent Corner: Havenscoast Locales
It’s been a slow couple of months on the blog front – a combination of work and summer holidays to blame – things just haven’t been progressing as I’d like! The ‘Havenscoast Project‘ is one such...
View ArticleDM for Kids: Back in the Saddle (literally…)
In my last DM for Kids column I lamented the fact that scheduling D&D sessions was not happening nearly as frequently as I’d like! However, my intention was to rectify that over the Christmas...
View ArticleWizards Watch: Phew!
Work and (work) travel have pretty much blown March away so far! So this Wizard’s Watch post is bit random, and just based on some of the things I’ve been keeping up with on the internet!! Have they...
View Article4E Fun, 13th Age Spice
As is (I hope) obvious from this blog, 13th Age has definitely caught my fancy! It has definitely inspired a re-working and expansion of many aspects of the World of Tolrendor. I mean when one...
View ArticleDown the River
A really fun encounter in my ‘solo’ campaign session with my son today. His character, with a few accomplices, is travelling down-river on a merchant’s barge in pursuit of some nefarious folk who have...
View ArticleThe Amber Pendant
A new fantasy artist on the block … I’ve posted before about the 4E solo campaign I’m running occasionally (very occasionally as it happens…. doesn’t life just get in the way!!) for my son, called the...
View Article4E Fun, 13th Age Spice
As is (I hope) obvious from this blog, 13th Age has definitely caught my fancy! It has definitely inspired a re-working and expansion of many aspects of the World of Tolrendor. I mean when one...
View ArticleIcon Rolls
I am definitely not what you would call an ‘off-the-cuff’ DM! The happiest DMing I do is when I’ve prepared well, both in terms of the session that I think I’m going to run, and for those parts of the...
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