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I am guilty as anyone here but let's take any further auto-fail discussion into its own thread and leave this one to its dying points of light and gonzo D&D.

Thanks for reading. Melech's voice comes very naturally, which is nice and writing him with Order of the Stick-style self-awareness is a hoot. Glad you enjoyed it.

I am all for the DM saying, "C'mon, Judd, you are trying to earn the duke's trust; try another skill. This one won't work for this skill challenge." I just don't dig, "You want to try to intimidate him? Okay. roll...FAIL! You can't intimidate the duke!" If you want to find a reason in the...

All art is by Storn A. Cook, who plays Kendrick and is talented enough to have done 3/4's of these sketches at the table. First thing's first, I'm a player character. I'm not a character in a fantasy book and though me and those other fictions have some in common, there's tons that is just...

The Raven Queen The way the gods and goddesses in the pantheon is set up to be in really interesting conflicts with one another. Unaligned A Rogue with a dagger Warlock's Pacts Tieflings Asmodeus, God-Tyrant of Hell (was that always his title?) The way the combats really demand...

Is there a place where we could find this as one easy-to-read word document somewhere all in order?

My roommate Bret e-mailed us this all of the geeks in the house got excited about 4e. Its pretty keen. I like making settings like that, jumping off a friend's neat idea and finding our own little niches in the world. Fun.

Saying to the DM, "I'd like to try to use Religion to appeal to the Duke's gods." And having the DM say, "No, that doesn't make a whole lotta sense to me; we've established that the Duke doesn't pay much heed to the gods. There's no reason for him to listen to you talk about that. Choose...

No, I think Andy's character, who broke tradition with his tribe by speaking, is the only one but I could be wrong about that. Scarred Lands, with its bleeding oceans and godswars seems a much more apt comparison to this setting than Midnight. I can see Scarred Lands and this world having...

From my lj post about last night's game We played 4e last night and it was fun. I didn't have a full grip on my kewl powerz just yet but I think I've got it now. We fought our own shadows that gained evil intent from a mostly buried Statue of Liberty size lich idol with glowing blue eyes...

Was Graz'z't in a Dragon article? Could someone hit me with an issue #?

Inspiring.

"His "holy" sites are bloodstained rocks in dark corners of the wilderness. Some include a single, jagged chunk of rock thrusting from the ground and scrawled with crude paintings and blistering curses smeared in blood and feces." - Demonomicon of Iggwilv: Yeenoghu, Demon Prince of the...

Tell 'em the campaign concept: "How about a game where the first level characters rise up and eventually destroy Orcus?" Add some color: "He's gained a foothold on this prime material world due to a vicious plague that gained a foothold and brought many a great empire low in the past...

One thing you might want to consider is how you set up your campaign. Rather than set up a plot with a beginning, middle and an end, I like to set up situations, as in something is going on and the players have to deal with it. It can be beneficial to have them make up their characters...

Hell yeah, this is what heroic stories are made of. All of that bad stuff in the intro one-sheet? My paladin is going to kick it in the face. Yeah, the threats are both vague and varied, leaving lots of space for Bret to tailor this to push our buttons. Greg, over at...

Bret and I were talking about this earlier tonight a bit. We discussed how you can kind of dial up the dark of the 4e D&D settings kind of using the Points of Light as the barometer. How bright are your Points of Light? Are there outside forces threatening them or are they stable? Bret added...

I think the way we'll flesh it out is through playing it. That is how we roll. Why the hard to read font color?

People keep commenting on the darkness of it around the intarwubs and I think it is a pretty level take on the Points of Light framework but Bret added just a nudge, and a nudge I dig, that the Points of Light are going out one by one. I like the way the setting lit a fire under our adventuring...

Then it is a good thing you aren't playing in the game, otherwise we might get our teenage darkspooge all over you.