Recent content by Weird Dave

For a more general "planar" guide, I'd like to toss out Codex of the Infinite Planes (which I'm biased since I wrote it!). I went through the Inner Planes, Transitive Planes, Mirror Planes, and Outer Planes with an eye towards developing each as a vibrant setting with features, sites of...

As a DMsGuild creator, I'm OK with this release schedule! I'm currently working on developing three separate Tier 1 Campaign Arcs (adventures designed to take characters from 1st to 5th level) which look like they're going to fit pretty well with the content getting released this year. First...

I keep hoping they'll find a way to bring Dungeons & Dragons Heroes back for modern consoles. Now that was a Gauntlet-type game! Pretty fun couch co-op on the OG Xbox, and one of the few reasons I still have the OG Xbox floating around here (well, that and Steel Battalion!).

I love reading about people's treasures! While I've only been playing for 30 years now, probably my favorite treasured item is a super worn copy of B1 In Search of the Unknown. When I started playing with my friends in the mid-90s as youngsters with no jobs, we had a few copies of the 2nd...

To get it to work in a con setting, you need a hook. The adventure itself is pretty light on these, presenting it more as a dangerous setting. When I ran it a GaryCon, I did it in a 4 hour session, with a specific goal - the daughter of the local baron was taken by Baba Yaga and the characters...

This version of Baba Yaga's Dancing Hut remains the gold standard for me. Back in the late 90s I picked up the Dragon Magazine Archive CD-ROM set, and hunted down this issue specifically for the Dancing Hut adventure. I ran it for my group on New Year's Eve 1999 in a game which took us into the...

Fishers Event Center is 35ish miles from the Indiana Convention Center, so a bit further from GenCon proper than ... anything else normally associated with GenCon. I wonder if they'll have transportation options to get people out there and back? Worth noting I am not a native of Indianapolis...

Oooh I'll be there! This is also my 10th year after missing the first one. I have historically run games all convention long for either AL or my own games, but I managed to wrangle a VIG badge a few years ago so I've been slowly moving into playing more games. I am running 10 hours of the D&D...

I'm excited to play around with a few product ideas I've had set in Greyhawk, but the challenge is going to be coming up with something NEW. I'll probably wait to see what the DMG fleshes out in terms of the setting to make sure anything jives with what they've got, but I've got a few Tier 1...

I'm absolutely here for the kind of retrospective/historic collections of D&D and RPGs in general. This book is def a must buy for me. But more than that, boy watching that video with Jason's clear enthusiasm - it's really infectious. As a Twin Cities gamer, this feels like a perfect time to dig...

Apologies for the long post - I wanted to share my own journey of painting! My own fight against the Great Gray Tide really started when I purchased a resin printer back in 2021. I've spent ... uuhhh ... too much money on WizKids prepainted miniatures over the past 20+ years mainly because I...

More than a decade ago now (gulp!) I ran a Shadowrun campaign using Metallica song titles for the runs, all homebrewed. In general for any game, the title is one of the first things I come up when planning a session or designing a scenario, either professionally or personally - whether the...

I love adventure titles! The best ones are evocative and engaging right from the start. I also agree that the 5E adventure titles have been ... somewhat lackluster. They have a feel of "design by committee" which makes them safe and rather boring. But not all of them! Here's some of my off the...

Dang. The downside of playing and running games at a cool con like Gamehole Con - you miss out on the cool panels!

I picked up this Manual of the Planes this morning from the DMsGuild, and my first impression - incredible work! As someone with their own treatise on the planes up for sale (cough cough Codex of the Infinite Planes) I'm always keen on expanding my knowledge of the planes and diving into other...