I devoted my lunchtime today to reading through the very first playtest packet for @KoboldPress’ Project Black Flag. This first round of playtesting is looking at some of the rules for Lineage, Heritage, Backgrounds, and Talents #TTRPG
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I didn’t manage to take a look at this issue the week it was released, because the release got pushed back, and let’s face it, even if it wasn’t, January was a mess, so let’s just call it a wash. In the intervening time since we last looked at an issue of Arcadia, there was some . . . drama
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The veil of night draws close to the world. The howling cold winds blow over the plains, and the threat of deep snows loom over holiday plans. What better time to completely retreat into fantasy and ignore the real world. Let’s take a look at Arcadia Issue 23 from MCDM.DisclaimerI received a review copy of this issue, and I have
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That last One D&D Playtest took a lot out of me. Three pages, two podcast episodes, and a whole lot of online analysis. This time around, things are going to be easier to digest. The third One D&D Unearthed Arcana is primarily looking at three species, one class, one subclass, and a few changes in the Rules Glossary. What’s Up
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Chapter 7: Siege of Kalaman This is the final “adventure” chapter of the book. This can be a little confusing, because this isn’t the Siege of Kalaman as described in the Dragonlance Chronicles, but an earlier point in the War of the Lance. “A” Siege. What’s Up Essentially, the PCs need to be able to infiltrate a location, but while
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Shadow of the Dragon Queen Chapter 6: City of Lost Names The opening section of this chapter, leading to the location that the PCs have been trying to find, is another of those callbacks that reminds me a bit of the original adventure and the Sla-Mori, the hidden path into Pax Tharkas. There are four locations in this section, with
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Chapter 5: The Northern Wastes In this section, the PCs are going to be the scouts/advanced force for troops sent into the titular region to find out what the villain from the previous chapter was after. The PCs don’t start off knowing the exact location they are heading. At various spots on the map of the Northern Wastes, they are
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Chapter 4: Shadow of War I’m going to dance around some spoilers in this section while trying to say something meaningful about it. We have more thematic echoes of the original adventures, in this case a situation not entirely unlike the arrival at Thorbardin. We also get an NPC foil in the veil of Theocrat Hederick or Derek Crownguard from
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Chapter 3: When Home Burns I really like how this is framing the beginning of this adventure, by echoing, but not directly mirroring, a lot of elements in the earliest Dragonlance adventures. There is a good narrative reason for the player characters to have a connection to one another, as well as to the starting location. There is a lot
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We’re going to do something a little different this time around. If you’ve been following me on social media, you may have seen some of this, but I’ve been looking at Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen a chapter at a time, and I’m pulling all of my social media thoughts together in one place, here on the blog. Looking
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