On Oriental Adventures A recent conversation has emerged on Twitter and YouTube over the 1st Edition Dungeons & Dragons product Oriental Adventures, written by Gary Gygax and David “Zeb” Cook back in 1985. In addition to the dated and offensive […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Why 4th Edition Monster Design was Terrible There’s been a curious throwback on #dnd Twitter the last few days, praising 4th Edition monster design (and to a lesser extent, 4e encounter design). 4th Edition was a divisive version of D&D […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Looking at the Warlord Class The Warlord Question is one that regularly pops-up on older Dungeons & Dragons forums. Forums populated by experienced gamers and grognards of all sorts who have played many past editions of “the world’s greatest roleplaying […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Eberron – Rising From the Last War Way back in ye old days of 2002, publisher Wizards of the Coast launched the “Fantasy Setting Search”, a competition to create a new world for Dungeons & Dragons. The winner was […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Borderlands Session 37 And here it ends. The finale. The conclusion. This session took place a month-and-change back, but it was too soon to really write about it. I needed the separation of time and another campaign. (Plus summer vacation […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Pathfinder 2nd Edition Following the four month playtest in 2018, Paizo Inc has released a second edition of their Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Unlike the playtest for 5th Edition D&D, which was more of a series of concept tests, the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Borderlands Session 35 & 36 Still a few recap and brainstorming blogs behind where my campaign currently is (spoilers: it ended). In order to catch-up and because I have fewer thoughts, I’m combining a couple sessions… I started the campaign […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Acquisitions Incorporated When someone writes the history of tabletop gaming for the first decades of the 21st Century, 2019 will go down as an unusual year, being filled with D&D partnership products that tie-in to other media. There’s the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Borderlands Session 34 WAR! This session picks up with the PCs engaged in wartime shenanigans in the middle of a battle in the Feywild. I think I’ll start with some NPCs in a battle. I’ve wanted to do a story […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Borderlands Session 33 The problem with a good cliffhanger that has an open ended solution is that it’s freakin’ difficult to plan for the resolution. The last session ended with the party’s arrival at the audience hall of the Godking, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Tales of the Old Margreve Way back in 2010, Kobold Press released Tales of the Old Margreve for the Pathfinder roleplaying game. A book of 8 forest adventures with 12 new monsters set in the publisher’s setting of Midgard. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Ghosts of Saltmarsh The spring 2019 release for Dungeons & Dragons is a compilation of older adventures. Like 2017’s Tales From the Yawning Portal. Like that product, Ghosts of Saltmarsh is a “low energy update” of adventures from previous […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
