Category Archives: D & D

To kick off the Spring Cleaning I’ve done for Picayune by dividing the Gaming section up into D&D and Video Games, here’s a new review of a cheap tool I’ll be rolling out into my campaign. One of my House Rules … Continue reading →

It seems WOTC has decided to experiment (or tamper) with a tried-and-true format in order to bring in new D&D players. For 25 years, most published adventures came with the maps and the text giving a synopsis. Sometimes there were … Continue reading →

WOTC finally published an environment book that solves a long-standing problem for all DMs…cities. This Summer I reviewed two generic city sourcebooks but now there’s assistance on constructing one from scratch. A good chunk of it is derived from a … Continue reading →

I’ve said before and I’ll say it again, published adventures are the lifeblood of D&D and other RPGs. Sourcebooks are great, many have become ‘must haves’ but the viability of any RPG in my opinion will always be the adventures … Continue reading →

The Ultimate Gaming Table …but a bigger house would probably be necessary. And something to keep the cats off it as the pictures show. However, there’s a link somewhere on the site where I can e-mail the builder(s) about blueprints … Continue reading →

Last week, the online store for my favorite non-WOTC D&D page, EN World, was selling a PDF of money cards. This eliminates the bookkeeping of the money in the game was the seller’s argument and for a mere $6.95 I could … Continue reading →

I had been looking for d12 with the months and hit locations for weeks through my local hobby store (Dragon’s Lair). They didn’t have any luck through their distributor after a few months so I resorted to the Internet thanks … Continue reading →

This sourcebook is mislabeled. Sure there are new monsters—various types of undead, creatures from the miniatures game and at least one new template (Lloth Touched). However, the reader may be confused when stumbling across entries for gnolls, ogres, etc. (“race” … Continue reading →

Hordes of the Abyss is the first of the Fiendish Codex series covering evil Outsiders. My guess is that there will be a total of three since those are the alignment choices with those types of monsters classified as fiends. Codex also feels like it’s … Continue reading →

Cities. They’re one the most time-consuming, annoying and difficult elements a DM has to deal with in D&D. A village, a thorp, even a small town is more manageable because the D&D equivalent of GNP (GDP?) isn’t very high, unless … Continue reading →

Today I renewed my subscription I think for at least the sixth time to this magazine. Those of you who don’t play D&D or other tabletop fantasy RPGS, you better stop reading, this won’t interest you. Especially those who I … Continue reading →

My initial reaction to this book was the usual, “Why in the world do we need another sourcebook, let alone an additional Players Handbook?!” Doubts were put aside with the first online preview, it showed promise, namely the section on how … Continue reading →

This review is way overdue since this book was released around the same time as WOTC’s disappointing Races of the Dragon. Procrastination and more interesting things to write about definitely put my Gaming section on the backburner, that and it has … Continue reading →

Last month WOTC released a pair of books worth raving about. Due to time restraints, it has taken me a while to whip up a review but the upside has been some deeper analysis on this sourcebook. I plan to … Continue reading →