Recent Posts Tagged With 'dungeons and dragons'

• Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #5

  Posted on Friday December 4th, 2009 at 00:43 in review, rpg, featured, roleplaying games, dungeons and dragons, d&d, 4th edition, dnd 4e, monster manual 2

  Now that it is nearing the end of 2009, at long last I bring you my final in depth analysis of the Monster Manual 2 and the creatures contained therein. While the book has been out for half of a year now, I still have not gotten anywhere close to usi...

• Review: “Kobold Quarterly #11″

  Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 19:26 in review, magazine, rpg, featured, pathfinder, roleplaying games, dungeons and dragons, d&d, 3.5, kobold quarterly, dnd 4e, issue 11

  There’s a reason every review I see of the Kobold Quarterly magazine compares it to the Dragon and Dungeon print magazines from years passed, even opening a PDF of the book and seeing the cover makes me immediately think of seeing those issues ...

• Preview & Review: “Primal Power”

  Posted on Sunday October 18th, 2009 at 17:00 in review, rpg, preview, d&d, featured, dnd, roleplaying games, dungeons and dragons, 4th edition, 4e, primal power

  Late last week, with a copy of Primal Power in hand, I decided to give people a chance to preview the book by asking questions that I would answer on Twitter as well as at our page on Facebook. Below I'll share most of the questions and answers from...

• Leveling Up As An Inexperienced DM

  Posted on Thursday October 15th, 2009 at 12:39 in editorial, rpg, campaign, d&d, featured, dnd, roleplaying games, dungeons and dragons, dungeon master, dming, dungeon mastering, newbie dm

  I still consider myself an inexperienced DM. the 4th Edition campaign that I'm currently running has just passed twenty adventures and is the longest campaign I've ever run. Hell, it was the longest game I've ever run when it hit ten adventures back...

• In Depth: 4E Assassin and Q&A with Mike Mearls

  Posted on Wednesday September 16th, 2009 at 05:00 in editorial, design, answers, questions, interview, rpg, d&d, featured, roleplaying games, dungeons and dragons, tabletop, q&a

  Last week Wizards of the Coast released a new class for Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition called the Assassin, an exclusive class only available to subscribers of their D&D Insider service. I was very intrigued by this new class, so I asked if...

• Review: “Eberron Campaign Guide”

  Posted on Wednesday July 22nd, 2009 at 07:09 in review, game, rpg, d&d, featured, roleplaying games, dungeons and dragons, tabletop, 4th edition, dnd 4e, eberron campaign guide

  The DM companion book to the Eberron Player's Guide, the Eberron Campaign Guide presents all of the information a DM could need to run a 4th Edition D&D game in the unique and interesting fantasy world of Eberron. Unlike the Player's Guide, thi...

• Inq. of the Week: Sources of Power?

  Posted on Tuesday July 21st, 2009 at 07:27 in rpg, d&d, featured, dnd, dungeons and dragons, tabletop, power source, inquisition of the week, roleplaying game, 4e

  Just before the Player's Handbook 2 was released back in March I wrote an inquisition asking which power source people most wanted to see in the PHB3, the source that won the poll was psionics so it seems the PHB3 is shaping up to meet a lot of expec...

• Review: “Divine Power”

  Posted on Sunday July 19th, 2009 at 21:52 in review, rpg, preview, d&d, featured, dnd, dungeons and dragons, 4th edition, roleplaying game, divine power, 4e, sourcebook

  Divine Power is the latest sourcebook for the 4th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons that includes new options for the Avenger, Cleric, Invoker, and Paladin classes. Each class gets a new build along with a ton of new powers, paragon paths, feats, a...

• One Year Later for 4e Podcast

  Posted on Wednesday June 10th, 2009 at 06:30 in interview, rpg, dnd, dungeons and dragons, critical bits, wizards of the coast, one year later, 4e, tome show

  A whole pile of bloggers and podcasters, including the likes of At-Will, Dungeonmastering, ChattyDM, Gamer's Haven, Sly Flourish, and yours truly, got together to ask James Wyatt and Chris Perkins of Wizards of the Coast about various topics related ...

• Review: Monster Manual 2

  Posted on Wednesday May 13th, 2009 at 10:45 in review, rpg, d&d, featured, dnd, roleplaying games, dungeons and dragons, 4th edition, 4e, mm2, monster manual 2

  If there's one thing most DMs can agree on, it's that having more monsters to pick and choose from is better than more options for players, so the Monster Manual 2 comes as a welcome addition to 4E. The MM2 expands on many of the monsters we're alre...

• Being a Good New Player

  Posted on Saturday May 9th, 2009 at 08:56 in rpg, player, d&d, Science Fiction & Fantasy, featured, dnd, roleplaying games, dungeons and dragons, dm, tabletop games, character background

  So often the focus of my articles is DMing. However, in a few short weeks I will be doing something unusual: joining The Game’s regular D&D game. I’m going to run through the considerations of making a character for a game that has been ru...

• New 4E House Rule: Channel Arcanity

  Posted on Thursday April 30th, 2009 at 10:54 in rpg, homebrew, d&d, arcane, wizard, dungeons and dragons, 4th edition, house rules

  Developing from my post over the weekend about the new Tome Implement presented in Arcane Power and how it adds more options for the 4th Edition Wizard, several comments were made that a larger selection ......

• Preview: Ranged Warlord

  Posted on Friday March 27th, 2009 at 16:40 in comics, rpg, d&d, Science Fiction & Fantasy, featured, roleplaying, dungeons and dragons, tabletop games, 4th edition, martial power, ranged warlord

  When preview material for the 4th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons first started to come out, what excited me the most was probably the addition of the Warlord class. The Races & Monsters preview book described the class alongside pictures of...

• Inq. of the Week: 4th Edition Books?

  Posted on Monday February 16th, 2009 at 12:21 in books, rpg, d&d, featured, dnd, dungeons and dragons, inquisition of the week, 4th edition, dnd4e

  I began to wonder how many people have bought these books. This led me back to a thought I had when 4E first came out, with the shift of magic items to the Player's Handbook it became much less important for players that aren't DMs to buy the Dungeo...

• Pain of Campaigning VIII: What About the Bad Guys?

  Posted on Wednesday February 11th, 2009 at 05:09 in editorial, rpg, evil, campaign, d&d, featured, dnd, villain, dungeons and dragons, pain of campaigning

  Looking at the Campaigning Inquisition, I saw that the vast majority of people favor heroic or at least characters that have the potential to be heroes. Considering the nature of the D&D beast, this makes sense, but I worry that people may be h...