Hey all. I’m back. Hopefully it will stick this time. There’s still a lot going on in my world outside of gaming, and I haven’t played D&D since September, but there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. I just hope it’s not coming from a Will O’ The Wisp. To get my gaming [...]
Posts Tagged ‘leverage’
What Did I Just Get Myself Into?
Posted in Managing Up, Strategy, tagged conventions, gming, leverage on November 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
More on splitting the party: The Expert
Posted in Character Generation, Rules, tagged 4e, balance, characters, dm, leverage, magic, magic-users, numb3rs, philosophy, powers, roles, sage, the party, tropes, tv shows, wizards on February 5, 2010 | 5 Comments »
The TV show Numb3rs is about a FBI team that occasionally gets helped out by a math professor. The five FBI agents form the group that goes on missions, hunts down bad guys, and gets into gun fights. Each member of the team fills a different specialty, and yet at the same time are pretty [...]
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 [...]
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