Hi all! I don’t know how many people are still following me, but if you are, you’re awesome! I’ve been on a gaming hiatus, which turns out it meant that I was on a blogging hiatus as well. Fortunately I finally got some D&D on after a four month break. This past weekend I got [...]
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Gamma World
Posted in Review, Wizards of the Coast, tagged 4e, at-will, d&d, gaming, gamma world, wotc on December 20, 2010 | 3 Comments »
It’s ENnie time again
Posted in Uncategorized, Wizards of the Coast, tagged blogs, ennies, podcasts, rpgs, wotc on July 20, 2010 | Comments Off
The ENnies are the annual fan awards for tabletop role-playing game, awarded each year at Gen Con. There are categories for art, writing, products, podcasts, blogs, minis, etc. The awards were originally given out by the EN World site in 2001, and they have been expanding and gaining presitge each year since then. If you’re [...]
DM’ing in Athas
Posted in Review, Wizards of the Coast, tagged 4e, adventures, Combat, d&d, dark sun, dming, player v dm, pre-gens, skill challenges on May 14, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Today’s Penny Arcade reminded me that I wanted to write about my experience DMing the Dark Sun preview at PAX East. This has also been on my mind lately because I’m gearing up to run a homebrew one-shot tomorrow. I don’t remember the exact sequence of events that got me in to the DM’s chair, [...]
Dark Sun Preview Review
Posted in Review, Wizards of the Coast, tagged 4e, d&d, dark sun, paxeast on April 2, 2010 | 5 Comments »
At the request of commenter “The Hockey Czar”, I’m going to review the Dark Sun adventure I played in last weekend. I also had the chance to DM this adventure as well, and I’m going to have a separate post on that experience as it was my first 4e game on the other side of [...]
PAX East 2010 Report
Posted in Review, Wizards of the Coast, tagged 4e, burning wheel, card games, d&d, dm, dming, gaming, metgaming, pax, paxeast, philosophy, player v dm, video games, wotc on March 31, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Wow… I’m starting to finally recover from nearly 4 straight days of gaming. I have to say that PAX East was awesome. I got to play a ton of board games, video games and of course Dungeons and Dragons. I also had a lot of access to Wizards of the Coast folk to ask questions [...]
I’m at PAX East
Posted in This Blog, Wizards of the Coast, tagged board games, conventions, d&d on March 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
If I’ve set things up correctly this post will drop while I am hanging at PAX East! It’s been months of looking forward to get my geek on, and I’m sure it won’t disappoint. Assuming my internet connection is good, and you want to meet up, tweet me @TheMikeKatz. The next few days are going [...]
PHB 3 Review
Posted in Review, Wizards of the Coast, tagged 4e, characters, classes, d&d, feats, items, magic items, phb, powers, psion, races, reviews on March 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I picked up the Player’s Handbook 3 at the game store when I was there for World Wide Game Day this past weekend. Normally I’d be on the fence about such a purchase (c’mon PHB….3, srlsy guys). But, since I have been playing a Psion since they released it in Dragon magazine, I know I’ll [...]
Worldwide D&D game day
Posted in Review, Wizards of the Coast, tagged 4e, challenges, characters, d&d, dm, game day, phb, the party on March 22, 2010 | 5 Comments »
This past weekend I participated in my first official, organized D&D event: Player’s Handbook 3 Worldwide D&D Game Day. The adventure started with our choice of 5 out of 6 pregenerated characters based on PHB 3 races and classes. The dungeon contained two levels with 5 combat and one 1 skill challenge encounters, based on [...]
How to not split the party
Posted in Personalities, Wizards of the Coast, tagged 4e, blogs, characters, charisma, d&d, dm, gathering information, group dynamics, kidnapping, player v dm, player v player, skills, the party, tropes on January 29, 2010 | 8 Comments »
I have to admit a little mea culpa. On this blog I try to press the point that players have a duty to work together as a team in order to ensure a smooth and enjoyable session for everyone. What I struggle with is how to do that without diluting one’s own sense of fun [...]
What does the Apple Tablet mean for d&d?
Posted in Review, Table Tips, Wizards of the Coast, tagged 3.5, 4e, apple, bloggers, character sheet, d&d, d20, i4e, ipad, iphone, table, tools on January 27, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Today’s mass excitement gave us the iPad… Apple’s bigger than a iPod, smaller than a MacBook multi-touch internet device. I’m sure millions of nerds worldwide spun their brains about how this device will work for their game books. I don’t like carrying around a ton of books, and I would be quite happy with an [...]
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