4e
My root canal was more fun than my 4e game this week
I tried it again. Dumb me. I thought after a couple months off I would give LFR a...
4e Holiday Crack That Saves You Money
The holidays are here and maybe you want to try the latest version of Dungeons and...
Tracking Combat Conditions -20oz soda loops
I had to drink Diet Coke to write this, so please bare with me. Conditions during...
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Power Gamers What Do You Do With Them?
I have been gaming with some power gamers that are extremely good at the 3.5e rules...
Three full tables of Alidor
I did it. I ran my home game dungeon at a convention with great success! Three games...
Cool Haunted House
I am writing and running a dungeon for a local con this weekend. It will be run in...
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Game Design
A Giants Den
Now for my giants den. This a image I built from stock photos in Photoshop. It is for another quick Pathfinder RPG adventure I am creating for Winter War. I needed a den out in the swamp, by the town of Kingleaf, so I drew this out from some Images I pulled together from Ireland. An old castle (left) and a rock shelter (right). I think every giant den... [Read more of this review]
A Map from the Past
I was digging through my old game notes and I found one of my early campaign maps. This is from 1999-2000, it shows my Forgotten Realms and Warcraft 2 influences in my earlier games. Lake Surma is there and my tortoises wandered in the fog of the marsh, named The Marsh, before I created Jerren. Dalaran eventually became Port Headland and the River Surma... [Read more of this review]
Village of Kingleaf
Officially founded in JY 905, Kingleaf was an old Brunari fort on the northern edge of the Green Forest. The name of the original fort is now forgotten and the forest is has receded miles to the south. People say the dragon, Surma, just looked at the forest and it started backing away from the lake. Many of the original barracks used while the people... [Read more of this review]
Found Some Great Town Generation Guidelines
I am building a couple new towns in Alidor and a google search for towngen led me to a very well thought out little pdf article called Village and Town Generator By Kory M. Kaese and Allison E. Kaese. It is a two pager “designed to assist the game master or player with creating a medieval village and/or town.” Making a town for an RPG can... [Read more of this review]
Vesna Gable the Witch of Kingleaf
Vesna is a local of Kingleaf. She was found unconscious in a cranberry bog northeast of town. The Gables, cranberry farmers who managed the bog where she was found, took her in as a third addition to their small family. She stayed with the family until see reached the age of 18, then she moved into town and began work as barmaid at the Cat and the King... [Read more of this review]
Central Jelling
This is an updated map of Central Jelling. I added a bunch of little villages and towns that were just dots on the original Jelling map. Since I am running a new Pathfinder game I thought I would start in a new area on my maps. I chose Kingleaf and I am presently detailing the area around Kingleaf. Bimnok Keep is a gnomish settlement. I noticed the... [Read more of this review]
First Draft of Kingleaf
I use Google maps in satellite mode and find cool looking towns. I grab a screen capture and then edit using layers in Photoshop to make a small town map for my dungeon. This is a town in Italy that I am using to help me make my map of Kingleaf in Jelling. I use a Wacom Bamboo tablet to draw over a 40% transparent layer of the town image. I do all... [Read more of this review]
The Good, the Bad, Gods and Spirits of Alidor
I have been writing about gods for Alidor and one of my players asked why I don’t have any evil gods yet? I mean, I have one greedy god named Yol, but Yol is not evil like the evil gods of other popular RPGs. Yol is greedy yes, but in a corporate banker way; he is no Michael Myers, nor are any of his followers, well maybe, one or two could be,... [Read more of this review]
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