Opportunity Actions: Red Box Play Report (Thurgenar’s Take)

After much anticipation, I got a chance to play in a Red Box scenario engineered by our own DM Samuel, the payoff to RPG Musings’ Red Box Haiku contest. I was one who volunteered to play and be recorded for an actual play podcast of the event. (I’ll post a link when it becomes available.) […]

Opportunity Actions: Send-Up to New York Comic-Con

This weekend, the 8th-10th of October my wife (the +1 Wife of Awesomeness) and I attended the New York Comic-Con, normally my big con outing of the year, and our one annual vacation. Also, I always make it a point to swing by the Wizards of the Coast booth, because, if nothing else, it ensures […]

Opportunity Actions: Races of Athas – Shifters and Wilden

Ok. I hope I’ve been making a decent impact with these posts. My theme, such that it is for this post, is geographical in nature. These two races are inextricably connected to the lands where they originate, and I thought that important to their identities as I adapt them to Dark Sun. The Challenges Shifters […]

Castle Ravenloft Review

Second (or maybe equal) to my love of RPGs is my love of board games.  When these two worlds intersect, it is a time of joy for me. I keep games like Hero’s Quest, Runebound, and Descent on standby. Like those games, Castle Ravenloft is about exploring a dungeon with fantasy-themed characters in order to […]