Pandemic the board game has become quite the go-to for my group when we just don’t feel like doing D&D. It’s an awesome game, and one of the few games where it’s fun when you loose as well as when you win. It’s especially fun when you’ve almost won but then suddenly loose… it makes [...]
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5 Things I Learned From Pandemic
Posted in Gathering Inspiration, philosophy, tagged board games, d&d, in-between, metgaming, pandemic, philosophy, roles on October 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Deepest, Darkest Fears
Posted in Gathering Inspiration, Managing Up, tagged 4e, characters, d&d, player v dm, rp on August 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Sarah Darkmagic just got back from Gen Con with a crate of swag. When your DM gets new material, it is an occasion of concern for any player. This event combined dangerously with a simple innocuous email she sent out my fellow players: “Can you please send me your characters worst nightmares?” Now I’m suspicious [...]
5 Cards to a Deeper Character
Posted in Character Generation, Gathering Inspiration, tagged character backgrounds, characters, d&d, magic cards, rp on August 6, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I heard an idea a long time ago and I’m wondering if anyone has every tried something similar. Take 5 random images, magic cards, quotes, book titles, etc and use those as inspiration for a character’s back story. For the next campaign I want to run, I was thinking of providing 5 random magic cards [...]
The 3rd Amendment and Your Character
Posted in Gathering Inspiration, tagged 4e, Bill of Rights, characters, d&d, metgaming, organizations, rp, U.S. Constitution on July 7, 2010 | 7 Comments »
The 3rd Amendment to the US Constitution states: No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law. It makes me wonder what the conditions must have been like in colonial America that [...]
Bard, Cleric, Fighter, Battlemind
Posted in Gathering Inspiration, tagged 4e, characters, d&d, flavor, leverage, metgaming, roles, the party on June 30, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I love the show Leverage; I love it almost as much as I love talking about it on my D&D blog. The show’s writers (or maybe marketers) are really into the character’s clearly defined roles. In the first season, they made the characters play to their roles (Hacker, Hitter, Grifter, Thief, Mastermind/Brain) and then sometimes [...]
Restaurant Recommendations [Twenty Questions]
Posted in Gathering Inspiration, tagged 4e, characters, d&d, food, rp, twenty questions on June 4, 2010 | 6 Comments »
What is your character’s favorite place to eat? What about when she’s in Sharn? Waterdeep? Sigil? What kind of food does he or she like? Elven? Dwarven? Northern Halfling? Seafood? Underdark mushroom risotto with Ithilid meat? I’m trying out a new format today: 20 questions about an aspect of a character. This week it’s food. [...]
Ferris Dragonborn’s Day Off
Posted in Character Generation, Gathering Inspiration, tagged 4e, blogs, breakfast club, characters, d&d, movies, roles, rp, tropes on May 26, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I thought that I had heard just about every kind of source for a D&D Adventure, but then I read Ameron’s (of Dungeon Mastering) post about doing an adventure in the style of an 80′s Teen Comedy. There’s a lot of great iconic moments from the various nerd, teen, and screwball comedies of that era: [...]
Illuminated Ruminations
Posted in Gathering Inspiration, tagged 4e, books, craft, d&d, illuminated manuscripts, items, skills, treasure on February 24, 2010 | Comments Off
I was recently watching a show that mentioned the Treasures of the British Library. Some of my favorite works in their collection are the illuminated texts. Books come up pretty frequently in my games in the form of magic tomes, black market ledgers, and royal genealogical records. As important as the contents are, rarely does [...]
How to gracefully fail a search check
Posted in Gathering Inspiration, House Rules, Rules, Skill Challenge, tagged 4e, challenges, characters, d&d, dm, heist, leverage, philosophy, rp, Skill Challenge, skills on January 13, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I don’t know about you, but sometimes the most mundane events in my life lead me to odd roleplaying ideas. For example, when I saw the office manager emptying out the shredder this week, I thought that a high level modern rogue could sneak in and steal those shredded documents and reassemble them for some [...]
The Waterdeep Job
Posted in Gathering Inspiration, skills, tagged 4e, challenges, characters, Combat, d&d, heist, indiana jones, magic items, metgaming, philosophy, player v dm, powers, roles, skills, the party, treasure, tropes on December 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Looks like it’s heist heist week here at Mike’s D&D blog. On Monday I posted about how in heist movies, there is usually an expert team assembled each with his or her own unique characteristics that contribute to the success of the heist. Now that you’ve got your team assembled, let’s look at how to [...]
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