‘D&D — Curse of Strahd’ Players Report: Session 1
Last night we began a new ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ campaign over Skype.
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Tag: 5E
With the ‘D&D Monster Manual,’ ‘Roll20’ Is Now a Menagerie of Horrific Beasts
‘Roll20’ has just become more awesome by including the ‘D&D 5e Monster Manual,’ including beautiful artwork, the monster lore, as well as their stats.
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‘Acquisitions Incorporated the Series’ Begins
‘Acquisitions Incorporated the Series’ debuted this past Wednesday. Expect exciting new episodes every Wednesday!
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Attention DMs! — Condition Cards for D&D 5E Kickstarter
Being a Dungeon Master can be tough–between telling a story, roleplaying NPCs, tracking combat, and (quickly) improvising all three when your players throw you curve balls that almost cross the line called Alignment Violation, DMs have a lot going on at the table.
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Ready-Made 'D&D' 5e Adventures for DMs Do Exist!
I was recently chatting with a fellow ‘D&D’ 5e player (Hey, Tyler!), and he was asking me all sorts of questions about DMing–time demands (in terms of preparation), the need to improvise, coming up with new material, etc. He wants to be a DM, but he was understandably hesitant to jump in. I told him that he could always go with the pre-generated content books that have been released for 5e–‘Hoard of the Dragon Queen,’ ‘Elemental Evil,’ and the most recent book, ‘Out of the Abyss.’ He told me he was looking for shorter adventures similar to the old ‘D&D’/’AD&D’ modules that were so popular in the ’80s and ’90s but they seemed to be in short supply. WHAT?! Short supply? Not true!
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5e D+D Adventure The Folio #3 Arrives, #4 Hits Kickstarter
Authors Scott Taylor and Mark Timm have done it again. Folio #3 (of 6) continues the story that began at Roslof Keep in Folio #1 and deepened with Folio #2… and the quality of the product hasn’t dipped, nor has the writing.
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Kickstarter Tabletop Alert: Darkplane 5e Campaign Setting
A review of the Kickstarter “Darkplane,” a campaign setting for the fifth edition of ‘Dungeons & Dragons.’ This setting combines Gothic Horror, weird almost Lovecraftian touches, and a gritty world to create a setting that just begs to be played in.
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‘The Folio’ Fantasy RPG Campaign & Module: ROS1 Beneath Roslof Keep
I know how time consuming it can be for DMs to create custom adventures for their players. If you’re a DM looking for that help or a player with a new AND nervous DM, you might just want to check out a new resource from Art of the Genre that has me grinning ear to ear.
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Original ‘D&D’ and 5th Edition, Some Side-by-Side Comparisons Part I
For the past few weeks, I’ve been doing some investigations into “classic” Dungeons & Dragons for an upcoming Adventurers League three-week (six hours) session. Way before Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, and even before the Basic Set (1977) that was my starting point with the game. I’m talking about what many folks refers to as Original D&D or OD&D.
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D&D Adventurers League: Session 11-15 Report Summary
My original plan had been to summarize my first 10 sessions of the Adventurers League Encounters event for GeekDad.com and share with readers my thoughts and experiences as I returned to the most important game of my youth. I planned on continuing to play each Wednesday night at Titan Games & Comics in Atlanta, GA but would discontinue my session reports. Apparently that was a mistake. For the past few weeks, I’ve continued to receive email requests to “keep going.”
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