Spoilers for Icewind Dale Rime of the Frost Maiden. Because I made a mistake and gave the cleric a 3rd 1st level spell, I’m threading an alternate universe version of the encounter under the narrative where it diverges. Don’t you love alternate universe stories? Because there has been some discussion about it, I decided to try out the tough mission
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This weekend is the next online event from Wizards of the Coast to promote the release of Rime of the Frost Maiden, as well as to give previews of the upcoming Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything. For more information on D&D Celebration, you can check out Wizard’s website here: Dungeons & Dragons Celebration Page To have everything up and running for
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Alternate Gritty Rules After running several sessions using the slow natural healing rules and the gritty realism rules for D&D 5e, as expressed in the optional rules in the Dungeon Master’s Guide, those are punishing. Careful resource management is a key to making a game feel more or less super heroic, but shifting rests to 8 hours and 7 days
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I’ll admit it. I have a little bit of an axe to grind with Corellon Larethian. Corellon is the primary god of the elves, and is generally regarded as a “good” deity, and yet, in general D&D canon, they banished and cursed a whole group of elves for what one group of them did at one point in time in
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Growing up, I remember Thundarr the Barbarian, a cartoon set in a future where modern society had fallen apart, magic had returned, and the setting was populated by strange animals, cyborgs, and sorcerers. I also remember my first impressions of Masters of the Universe, from the original storybooks that came with the action figures. This was a world with advanced
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Just for fun, and because I was a little stressed out, I wrote up entries for the two new cultures that my player characters encountered in their exploration of the Shackleton Expanse, a previously unexplored region that sits between the Klingons, the Federation, and the Romulans. Archivists The Archivists are a society with advanced power, transportation, and replication technology. Their
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I’m having a ton of fun with my Star Trek Adventures campaign, so I’m looking about just about everything that comes out for the game. It seems like the Enterprise Player Characters release just happened (it did), but now we’ve got another “characters” product, this time called Iconic Villains: Non-Player Characters. This is “kind of” a first impression article, but
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When I first started playing RPGs, where you bought your RPG material heavily influenced what games you were exposed to. Dungeons & Dragons made it into toy stores and book stores, and many “second-tier” TSR releases followed D&D into book stores, but some corners of the hobby only existed in specialty stores. The first two RPGs that I played were
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hasSadly, this review isn’t going to be quite as timely as I would have liked it to have been. I read through this and took notes at the beginning of the year, and in the press of different responsibilities, I never circled back around to finish up the formal review. Now I’m going to rectify that. Part of what intrigued
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Today my more recent article is up on Gnome Stew, looking at Keith Baker’s Exploring Eberron, a product for the Dungeon Masters Guild, which is a major expansion for the setting, based on work from the setting’s creator. If you like that content, I can neither confirm nor deny that you may want to keep your eyes peeled for an
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