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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘roles’
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 »
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 [...]
Remembering Stuff
Posted in Personalities, tagged at the table, npcs, philosophy, roles, rp, tools on May 28, 2010 | 8 Comments »
My current campaign has a lot going on. A couple of characters have backstories tied into the campaign. In addition we have some traveling companions that are loose threads that need tying. There’s an an ever-evolving mythology and history of the realm with a new ancient character that needs to be kept track of each [...]
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: [...]
You’re Playing Your Character Wrong
Posted in Combat, Personalities, tagged 4e, characters, Combat, d&d, other characters, player v player, roles, rp, sharing, the party, tropes on April 19, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Today’s Dork Tower illustrates a session recap where one of the heroes wound up doing tons of cool things the previous week , when the character was played by different player. I found great humor in this, as I have experienced this situation myself. It happens to all gaming groups: one guy can’t make it [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
High performance teams
Posted in Personalities, tagged 4e, attention, character sheet, characters, communication, d&d, philosophy, player v player, roles, sharing the spotlight, skills, the party on December 28, 2009 | 6 Comments »
If you’ve haven’t seen the show Leverage, it’s basically a weekly 1-hour heist movie. Someone described this show to me as “competency porn,” since all the team members are the best at what they do and they show it off for the audience each week. The Star Trek Next Generation team was also the same [...]
Playing the part: working with your enemies to recover an artifact
Posted in Table Tips, tagged 4e, characters, indiana jones, metgaming, philosophy, player v dm, players, roles, rp, tropes on December 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One of my favorite parts in any adventure movie is the part where the hero has to team up with his or her enemies to recover an artifact or save an ally. For example, in Indiana Jones and the Quest for the Holy Grail Indy helps the Nazis go through the trap filled mountain to [...]
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