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Hey, so, this is Timm Woods, the subject of the article-- first of all, it's been a busy few months finishing my dissertation but I'm happy to say that the PhD is now complete :) Second, I love all of the comments that have followed from this article-- I had to step away and focus on writing...

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https://www.enworld.org/data/thumbs/324-image.jpg A hacked D&D 3.5/4e, stripped down to the bones and rebuilt as a tongue-in-cheek fantasy game in a world where magic is music and adventuring parties are 4-man bands. Sort of a cross between the new Gamma World and the video game Rock Band.

https://www.enworld.org/data/thumbs/324-image.jpg A hacked D&D 3.5/4e, stripped down to the bones and rebuilt as a tongue-in-cheek fantasy game in a world where magic is music and adventuring parties are 4-man bands. Sort of a cross between the new Gamma World and the video game Rock Band.

https://www.enworld.org/data/thumbs/324-image.jpg A hacked D&D 3.5/4e, stripped down to the bones and rebuilt as a tongue-in-cheek fantasy game in a world where magic is music and adventuring parties are 4-man bands. Sort of a cross between the new Gamma World and the video game Rock Band.

https://www.enworld.org/data/thumbs/324-image.jpg A hacked D&D 3.5/4e, stripped down to the bones and rebuilt as a tongue-in-cheek fantasy game in a world where magic is music and adventuring parties are 4-man bands. Sort of a cross between the new Gamma World and the video game Rock Band.

https://www.enworld.org/data/thumbs/324-image.jpg A hacked D&D 3.5/4e, stripped down to the bones and rebuilt as a tongue-in-cheek fantasy game in a world where magic is music and adventuring parties are 4-man bands. Sort of a cross between the new Gamma World and the video game Rock Band.

https://www.enworld.org/data/thumbs/324-image.jpg A hacked D&D 3.5/4e, stripped down to the bones and rebuilt as a tongue-in-cheek fantasy game in a world where magic is music and adventuring parties are 4-man bands. Sort of a cross between the new Gamma World and the video game Rock Band.

https://www.enworld.org/data/thumbs/324-image.jpg A hacked D&D 3.5/4e, stripped down to the bones and rebuilt as a tongue-in-cheek fantasy game in a world where magic is music and adventuring parties are 4-man bands. Sort of a cross between the new Gamma World and the video game Rock Band.

https://www.enworld.org/data/thumbs/324-image.jpg A hacked D&D 3.5/4e, stripped down to the bones and rebuilt as a tongue-in-cheek fantasy game in a world where magic is music and adventuring parties are 4-man bands. Sort of a cross between the new Gamma World and the video game Rock Band.

https://www.enworld.org/data/thumbs/324-image.jpg A hacked D&D 3.5/4e, stripped down to the bones and rebuilt as a tongue-in-cheek fantasy game in a world where magic is music and adventuring parties are 4-man bands. Sort of a cross between the new Gamma World and the video game Rock Band.

Congrats, darkcyril and everyone else. Thanks for hosting this, Morrus. I have to say I had a lot of fun with this. Hope this isn't a 1-time thing!!!

I'd agree with SirAntoine; that's a lot to pack into 3-4 hours. Particularly if steps 3 and 5 are larger battles. It might work if you make the battle in step 1 a particularly quick one; you could have the assassins/thieves going up against the local forces (off-camera) with only 1 or 2 making...

I love the location, I would also throw in some specifics about what powers the mythal grants when you're describing it. That's the type of stuff I love to use to get a variety of characters invested-- tell them the island cures diseases or grants a specific supernatural power and suddenly...

I playtest 5e quite a few months ago, so they might have worked out a lot of the kinks with monster-strength, but I had some surprisingly tough combats relative to the levels/XP value of the monsters. Granted, my players were at tender 1st level, where a single dice roll can mean disaster. I...