I have posted a new page in the page links above: Blog Schedule and Ongoing Series. This information page will tell you what content you can look forward to here on the site and when you can expect it to be here. And now, on with the adventure hook! – ADVENTURE HOOK 018 – The […]
Player's Strategy Guide – Will It Help You?
Caution – this is a very long review – hopefully you won’t fall asleep when reading :) This is a review of the Player’s Strategy Guide, by Andy Collins and Eytan Bernstein, released by Wizards of the Coast in May 2010. First Impressions: Art: Sorry to all the penny arcade fans out there, but I […]
Cooperative Party Building
I am starting up a new 4e campaign and the players and I got together for the first session this past Monday. I have realized in the past year or two that the ease of DMing 4th edition (by which I mean encounter building, monster reskinning, and NPC design) leaves me lots more time to […]
The Value of a One-Shot
Okay, I’ll admit it… I don’t like running one-shot adventures. I usually find it cumbersome, slow, and generally boring. One of the reasons I love DMing so much is that my players and I get to weave a story that includes elements in which everyone is invested. A one-shot pretty much always precludes that, reducing […]