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Free PDF Adventure: Gold Strike!
39 Pages of Great D&D Adventuring! The winner of the autumn round of our Adventure Writing Competition, Gold Strike! is ready to download. This low to mid-level D&D adventure, sees the party on the trail of lost miners in an
Making Monsters Different
The best way to shake up a party is for them to encounter a monster they don’t recognize. This is especially effective on players who have that smugness that can only come from an encyclopedic knowledge of the monster manual.
D&D History & Growth (2009 Edition)
How much has the 4th Edition grown over the past year? Following last year’s investigation into the size and growth of each edition of D&D, the big question for this year’s updated graph is how fast is 4e’s rule base
Oh No! Our GM has an NPC Generator
We are back playing D&D 3.5 after our trial run with 4e (this ended up in Total Party Kill in the last room of the module). Our first thoughts on our return to 3.5 was “How do we play this
5 Beginner GM Mistakes (and how to fix them)
1. Lack of Preparation Nothing says “I’m a green GM” more than making the players wait five minutes whilst you try to find the NPC’s stats or work out what happens next. Fortunately this is easy to fix. Read
“You want to do what?”
Part of the D&D Bloggers Carnival. 5 Rules for Smart D&D Players It is the moment I love. That moment when the GM stares at you, first in disbelieve and then in realisation of what it means. The moment your
Last Flight of Leviathan IV
Remember how last week I asked for suggestion of free games to fill a two week gap in our gaming schedule? We had some good ideas but nothing was quite what we were looking for so I had a good
Fantasy Art
Two different sets of glorious fantasy art popped up on my RSS reader this morning that simply must be seen. Dave McKean’s Fantasy Art Stamps Dave McKean is a fantastic artists, often working in mixed media where photographs, sculptures and
5 Adventure Hooks for Times of War
Wars are great fun, at least when playing, but large scale wars can be hard on the GM. So here are five wartime plot hooks that need little preparation other than the use of a random encounter table and a
Twitter Games
What games can you play on Twitter? With Twitter exploding into the mainstream, the opportunities for Twitter games should also expand yet there seems to be very little out there at the moment. There are several dull games for Twitter
Vampires! Archaeologist Find Proof!
Ok, not really but they found something that is even more interesting and inspirational for GMs. Venetian Vampire The Universita di Firenze announced that he and his archaeoloical team had excavated the skeleton of a Renaissance woman whose skull