Ravenloft Board Game Review Monday, August 30, 2010 It's late, but I finally managed to snag it a day before its new release date. Ravenloft in its board game incarnation seems to be ...
D&D Starter Set Review Sunday, August 29, 2010 "Red Box", "Essentials", whatever . The point is that thanks to Shazbot's tip I was able to get ahold of this $20 ga...
Bat Monster Homebrew Wednesday, August 25, 2010 Nothing special, just a basic bat that serves some function in a combat scenario. I was thinking of doing a bat swarm as a kind of hazard i...
Magic Item Rarity Monday, August 23, 2010 4th Edition has spoiled us in terms of magic items. I remember in a 2nd Edition game where the first item I got was at level 2, and it was a...
The Vault of Darom Madar Review Sunday, August 22, 2010 A long time ago two merchant houses got into a fuss over selling the same products, and one took it upon himself to "eliminate the com...
Slaves of Athas Wednesday, August 18, 2010 Slaves of Athas is a Dark Sun article that adds the escaped slave theme (martial striker) that includes eight exploits, the freedom fighte...
At the Mines of Madness, Part 2 Wednesday, August 18, 2010 Part 1 After camping out in a cramped, blood-soaked, very hot single room "house" (more like a hut) the party continued investi...
Winning Races: Eladrin Monday, August 16, 2010 Beyond the Spiral Tower is a four-page article that provides a quartet of feats for unorthodox eladrin that want more support for arcane cl...
Dark Sun Campaign Setting Review Sunday, August 15, 2010 My distant recollection of Dark Sun has always been thri-kreen, psionics, and lot of sand . I wouldn't exactly say I'm a fan of it ...
The Shivs of Sorcery Sunday, August 15, 2010 4th Edition has gone a long way to make wizards and sorcerers into distinct classes. Aside from vastly differing class features and spells ...
Psionic Power Review Saturday, August 14, 2010 Growing up my family was fairly poor so for the longest time I had to make due running D&D games with only a Player's Handbook , so...
Bardic Items, Closing the Magic Treasure Gap Thursday, August 12, 2010 I like this article because I just so happen to have a bard in my current campaign that specifically wants to use songbows and only song...
At the Mines of Madness, Part 1 Thursday, August 12, 2010 I've finally started off a new campaign after shelving Songs of Erui since the only original character's was Josh/Shazbot's, a ...
Rising Tide Inn Thursday, August 12, 2010 An inn in Greyshore, from The Shadows Over Greyshore . There will be hijinks because I drew the map and according to Beth I only draw maps ...
GenCon Announcements Monday, August 09, 2010 A lot of stuff rolled out at GenCon this year. They opened up with the announcements by mentioned stuff that was already released before mo...
Essentials Powers, Feats, and Implements Monday, August 09, 2010 Up until now , the stuff I've heard about the Essentials didn't worry me at all . Classes built differently? That's cool. Magic ...
Essentials Fighter Preview, Part 2 Friday, August 06, 2010 Shazbot got around to it before I did , but I still want to offer up my thoughts. The first thing I notice is that despite it being categori...
Essential Slayer Preview Friday, August 06, 2010 Posted last night on Bill Slavicsek's Ampersand column, the Slayer is the other new Fighter build being published in September's &q...
Essential Rogue Preview Sunday, August 01, 2010 I like how the Essential Rogue preview opens up--yet a-fucking- gain --with a disclaimer about how Essentials isn't a new edition, re...