Category Archives: D & D

Gaming, usually Dungeons & Dragons

Paizo will keep most of my D&D books from going obsolete

Last week, my friend and fellow DM Flynn brought Paizo’s Pathfinder announcement to my attention. Since these guys did a great job with Dungeon and they write excellent adventures in their Gamemaster series, I had to investigate further. Seems they’ve … Continue reading

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Gary Gygax passed away today…

…and if a stake isn’t driven through his heart, he’ll return as a vampire with HD 8+3, AC 0 and the level-drain power on top of his blowhard attacks. Initially I was skeptical since the first sources were message boards … Continue reading

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Exemplars of Evil is WOTC phonin’ it in until May 2008

I haven’t covered a D&D product in over three months since I’ve really scaled back on my purchases and most of what I have bought were adventures. Those are tricky to write about; you don’t want to give away the … Continue reading

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D&D birthday cake II

Somara has done it again! My friend Flynn commissioned this one as a birthday present after he had seen the PHB version she did for our friend Leslee. This one was relatively easier to make because of all the lessons she learned … Continue reading

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1992: Gen Con XXV opened

The 40th Gen Con just ended yesterday and it was a landmark convention for the iconic gathering that spawned Dungeons & Dragons (see all the complaining about Fourth Edition). But 15 years ago, the 25th Gen Con began on this … Continue reading

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Fourth Edition is coming in 2008

It’s official, there will be a Fourth Edition of D&D and WOTC has posted last night’s preview. The YouTube links are pretty cool and informative, especially with the upcoming digital content successors to Dragon and Dungeon. I’m going to reserve judgment until later … Continue reading

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This Day in History written by Fox News and the 700 Club

I do what I can to keep my site positive but today the History Channel really pissed me off with this old retread of ignorance. It must’ve been written in the Eighties when the media still wasted air time on listening … Continue reading

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This chart nails a stereotype well

Somara showed me a a pretty funny D&D flow chart courtesy of Boing Boing (a rather hit-or-miss site) but the source link is completely down for reasons I can only guess. I wasn’t completely discouraged. With a bit of mental … Continue reading

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My initial experience with the new Star Wars RPG

Twenty years ago this Summer, the first version of the Star Wars roleplaying game appeared at GenCon or maybe it was announced. Either way, it really dampened the 10th anniversary of Traveller (three mentions over the weekend, must be a … Continue reading

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D&D birthday cake

  Now that I have explained [maybe unloaded] all the unpleasantness of the last 48 hours, here is the highlight of the week. Amazing! Personally, I think it’s her greatest cake ever and I’m saying that from a non-gamer, non-husband … Continue reading

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Ahoy! A re-usable ship for D&D minis! Arrrr!

Here’s a pretty useful pre-made Flip-Mat I bought at Rogues Gallery this weekend since I like to throw in nautical adventures. The cannons on the middle deck are out of place for most D&D campaigns but I can ignore them. … Continue reading

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Magic Item Compendium offers worthwhile options

This review is overdue (as are all of my D&D ones), thus it will be briefer since this product is really a collection of properties, charts and rules. It lacks a lot of detail but at least I was spared … Continue reading

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Belated review of Tyrants of the Nine Hells

Tyrants of the Nine Hells is book number two of the Fiendish Codex series covering the Lawful Evil Outsiders; Devils getting their due (pun not intended). Unlike the previous book on Demons, this one opens up with two pages of fiction … Continue reading

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Dragon magazine ending after 31 years

The news with all the details is here. Of course I found out today and not yesterday since my diligence with reading enworld.org has slowed. I was immediately saddened because Dragon was a staple of D&D ever since I got into the … Continue reading

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My latest PDF creation

Over the months, I have seen some great ideas sold as PDF files through enworld.org (still the best site for all things D&D outside of Wizards of the Coast). The latest one was Condition Cards which has each of the … Continue reading

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