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So I was perusing through my feeds this morning when I saw this article on Boing Boing: D&D camp, circa 1982 Wow, I had no idea that there was even such a thing as a roleplaying summer camp.

Tonight, my players realized that several NPCs who had been obstructing them over the course of five real-time years were actually just one changeling in several guises. Several years ago, my party and I realized at the very last minute that the nice rogue named Vance Gatzert who was traveling...

So I was delighted to discover that I have a local gaming store near me -- it primarily stocks board games, but it does have a small D&D section and a large back area for people to play games. In fact, they have a library area where, whenever you feel like it, you can walk in, check out a game...

I was waiting in line for the Art of the Dungeon Master panel at Penny Arcade Expo, but I got turned away, which was disappointing. The line wrapped around the entire floor, so it was a very popular panel. If you saw it, do you know what the content was? Anything new or interesting?

So on Sunday, I was in a game in which my wizard, Lei-Fang, was battling with a hobgoblin mage on top of a ledge, while melee combat happened below her. The warlock had set up a zone of Hunger of Hadar below and around one of the entrances, which was terribly useful for deterring people from...

I ran a trap-filled dungeon as part of an unexpected incident in KotS, and for some reason I suspect I'm getting it wrong somehow. Here's how I ran it: An area with a trap or hazard enters visibility range. Compare the Perception DC to detect the trap with the character's Passive Perception...

So I've been on a weird cooking frenzy lately, possibly because I'm a little excited about moving to a new apartment. Here's what I've made recently: steak au poivre philly cheesesteaks filet mignon with blue cheese sauce peanut butter fudge homemade brownies How about you? Any interesting...

So if you are one of my players: Out. Anyway, here's the scenario. So I'm running Keep on the Shadowfell, and my players managed to clean out most of the kobolds at the kobold lair, but stopped short of being able to kill Irontooth and a few of his kobold henchmen since three-fourths of the...

Article's up: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drcamp/20080630

Not that I'm a lawyer or anything, but the following is how I interpret the GSL, as I read it, in straightforward language: Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Game System License This is the GSL. 1. You have to send us a letter saying you accepted this license. After you send us your acceptance...

Do you use the Great Wheel, or the new 4E cosmology, or something homebrewed? Have your players/characters had any adventures of note there? Are there people living out there, or do only the greatest heroes have a chance of surviving? Just curious.

Just something interesting I noticed. 3.5E Dominate Person: Once you have given a dominated creature a command, it continues to attempt to carry out that command to the exclusion of all other activities 4E Dominated Condition (from KotS): You are dazed: You provide combat advantage, you can...

Wired.com got a copy of the 4E character sheet, featuring a Level 15 Dragonborn Paladin with the Astral Weapon paragon path. http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/05/exclusive-dd--1.html

Forgive me if the book actually covers this somewhere and I've missed it, but. Basically, I have been trying to understand the Tome of Battle: Book of Nine Swords, and I figured the best way to do this was to make a character from Levels 1 through 20. So apparently some maneuvers have a...

This one is a player behavior question from perhaps a unique perspective -- one of the other players. So last session of my D20 Modern game we'd just come out of negotiating a settlement with a pimply necromancer and his undead mother to write a tell-all book about how Disney ripped off the...

Just a random idea that occurred to me: There is an interesting roleplaying game that I've known of for awhile called Lexicon: An RPG -- see link for more information. It's occurred to me that this might actually be a very interesting little experiment for shared homebrew worldbuilding, or to...

Sister poll of the Eberron thread, because it occurred to me that comparison could be good. Similar questions: · How do you feel about the setting now, and why do you feel that way? · Are you as happy with it as you are Greyhawk and Eberron, the other two supported settings? · Are you as...

See the title. One of my friends mentioned to me that a lot of the people she knows have been disillusioned by Eberron when they used to like it, so I thought I'd take a straw poll of those of you who've actually messed around with it. Some guiding questions: · How do you feel about the...

So during the school year, I usually run an Eberron game, and most of my players have done pretty well getting into it, and so on. We started with a few newbie players, and I figured that they'd sort of come out of their shell and get pretty engaged after a few sessions, and so they did --...

So last night I met my players fully expecting to run my usual Eberron game, which has been going surprisingly smoothly, before I unexpectedly was told that one of my players was missing the session because she was at work, and the other said she needed to do homework. Which left me with four...