How to train your dragon to be a lethal weapon

I have been looking at the spells in the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook, and I noticed that a couple of them really work well with my game world of Alidor. In Alidor, dragons are top dog, and tortoises are man’s only hope. I have told players that there have been many wars between the people [...]

I just have to survive the first round of combat

Last week, I posted that my party and I were so screwed, because we were box-texted into a nearly impossible encounter. Well we are all 13th to 14th level and there are six of us plus a cohort. The cohort is a priest… Typical for 3.5. Anyway, we are surrounded by mindflayers and just coming [...]

We role-played the entire session

This last Thursday I played Pathfinder RPG again. The best part about the session was that we pretty much role-played the whole thing. I told the DM afterwards it had been nearly 5 years since I had played a game where the whole session was spent role-playing and no one got bored. The group I [...]

We are so screwed… Box texted into the impossible

Last night, for four hours, we battled the imaginary. Yet another Keoland RPGA module, this time we nearly died fighting apparitions in our minds only to find out at the last encounter it was all in our heads, along with the tentacles of the mindflayers that had grappled us. One player did die. The image [...]

Making items made easy

When third edition came out for Dungeons and Dragons, I remember my players started making their own magic items and mundane items almost right away. As the game aged and players started looking to min max everything, craft was one of the first skills dropped in favor of advancing others like spot or diplomacy. Well [...]

30 years of books

I stacked all my dungeons and dragons books that I could find on my game table. I am one of those one genre gamers. I like fantasy role-playing games, and until this year that meant only one system, Dungeons and Dragons. Over the years I tried Shadowrun, Boot Hill, Traveler, Gamma World, but I never [...]

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