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The other two on that list were written by two great Oregon AL DMs, Bill Beers and Ma'at Crook. I believe both of them are first-time authors, so extra congrats to both of them for being nominated! (FULL DISCLOSURE: I provided playtesting feedback for Bill Beers' adventure.)

I think having Admins be able to write and run their own adventures is a fantastic perk! I would be a bit leery of having LCs write and run their own adventures and have them be AL-legal because there's some potential for abuse there. As a Local Coordinator, what I'd love to see would be a...

The Boots of Striding and Springing have been reworded; they explicitly set your minimum walking speed to 30 feet, and you can't jump farther than your remaining movement for a turn will allow. The Potion of Flying will now drop you like a hot potato when it expires, instead of letting you...

I see that the Ring of Evasion has changed from the v1 version. Instead of granting advantage on all Dex saving throws and doing the old school evasion thing (if you make a Dex save for half damage, you take no damage if you succeed and half damage if you fail), it now has 3 charges and you can...

BTW, Matt, thanks for writing this adventure in the first place. :) I love the theme and could easily use a tweaked version in a home game. Finally, a reason to buy and use dinosaur minis! You've made my Fiendish Tyrannosaur happy.

The real problem is that the Pixie Music Box is clearly not intended for use in combat; I think it's supposed to be a magical version of those ultrasonic devices that keep insects away from your picnic table. It's a poorly-worded item that happens to break this particular encounter pretty...

You do have the miniature erasable map, right?; I jotted down on mine where Hyacinth, the crates, and the turrets were at the start; at the end of round 4, I added the PCs and NPCs.

I got to DM it for the first time today, and everything was fine... ...until a PC pulled out a Pixie Music Box on round 2. I was completely caught off-balance by it. It's not technically a magic item, so it doesn't fall under the limitations on consumable items. I did look at the character...

I remember in the days of 1st edition D&D reading Ed Greenwood's articles in Dragon Magazine that described interesting bits of lore, unique or mysterious artifacts, and creative new spells. Every time a new issue came out, I looked for his name. Part of the mystique was that they came from a...

MIke Shea over at Sly Flourish has written an eBook about running Epic tier D&D games called, oddly enough, Sly Flourish's Running Epic Tier D&D Games: Sly Flourish's Running Epic Tier D&D Games

I'm getting ready to run Forge of the Dawn Titan for my FLGS in the next two weeks; I was supposed to run it last night but Labor Day Weekend killed any interest. Anyway, I'm rolling up some different groups of beasties, in case we want to try it more than once in a given session. I was looking...

"Beholder Art Segmentation" sounds like a placeholder title. I'm curious to see if the final content will go live in, oh, about half an hour...? EDIT: It's live! http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4dnd/behold

I agree; if they had given the puzzle more prominence, then I would expect bigger things. "Collect all of the pieces to find the URL for our big announcement!" It's probably not Insider content, and given that the URL will be broadcast far and wide once it's live, it's probably not something...

I'd love to get a good-sized version of that artwork; I am an unapologetic Wayne Reynolds fanboy. The name used in the URL is interesting -- if it was just a link to the Themes article, why use "behold" as the reference? I'm hoping for a Class Compendium art gallery to come out of this.

For people who were trying to play along: 1. Bottom right of the Rule-of-Three: 04/25/2011 article. 2. Bottom right of the Who Wants to Play the Cleric? article. 3. To the right of the Phantom Ally card art in the Choose Your Fortunes Wisely article. 4. Click on Chris Perkins' name at the...