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I've had a mixed experience with 4th Edition as compared to 3.x Edition Dungeons and Dragons. As a player I enjoyed 3.x far more than 4th but in preparing my new campaign The Girl in Glass | Obsidian Portal and watching the GM in my current campaign I've found the experience as GM to be...

Last night while playing in a game of Hero Quest our GM was forced to come up with a moniker for a group of villains he threw against us. Up against time pressure and struggling desparately he finally spat out ... Loose Association of Mutant Evil Outcasts. Needless to say, all were amused...

July 21st Session I know a few people are still following the adventures of LaShanna, Goku, Gravel, Taysa and your faithful narrator Stultafor "Stully" Milbegrew but I thought I'd post again in case people were following sporadically or had forgotten. We continue to soldier on and are now at...

Only half the slowness problem I think the points you make are excellent but not every player is going to be that happy with such a military sequence. My players are busy reading books, checking games on their phones, and playing with miniatures on the side. That being said there is one...

Simplistic ... yes Hey Mercurious, I didn't want to make my post overly long so it ended up relatively simplistic. Yes, of course they were talking about WoW. The idea here is that the market strategy has changed and a lot of companies took advantage of it and thrived while others did not...

Good Product = Good Sales Count me among those who think "Generational Peak" is corporate speak for we need an excuse to explain why the current system isn't selling. The key to any product selling is that people must want to buy it. It's as simple and as complex as that. It's easy to say...

Revenue I think this is an interesting topic beyond the ramifications of Wizards of the Coast (WotC) and Third Party Publishers (3PP). The question here, at least as I see it, relates to an open license versus a closed one. In this case WotC has a product, 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons...

Another View This is an interesting topic but I'm going to risk taking it out of bounds here. The real question seems, to me at least, to be: As a GM should you use your knowledge, unknown to the NPC, to make decisions? The obvious answer for everyone, I'm guessing, is no. The trick comes in...

May 29 - Session I thought I'd update on our progress. We took some time off and we are slowing down a bit but the game soldiers on. I posted the latest update just now. We are nearing the end of the Lost Mines of Karak and I'm utterly confused as to the plot of the Adventure Path! But, the...

Item Sets I'm pretty sure someone else mentioned this idea in the thread but in my last campaign I went with Item Sets. For example: Sword of the Red Mercenary +1 when it is the first item in the set. When the second item in the set is found: Shield of Flames +2 and the Sword of the Red...

Probably the worst thing I ever did to a party was have them run across an exposed baby while hiking past a small hamlet. It had been born with no arms and legs and left out to die. It was a fairly traumatic experience. Happy Gaming, Tom

Dungeon Design There are a lot of good thoughts in this thread but one I've had to deal with that I don't think has been mentioned is Dungeon Design. Healing Surges dramtically change the character of a dungeon in my opinion. Basically, in the old system the group could continue without...

Another sad day. So many of my fondest memories stem from role playing sessions. We will certainly have a moment of silence at our game this Saturday. Thank you Dave, Tom

March 31, Session I've posted the latest session of Scales of War. scalesofwar » home Gravel becomes Sir Gravel, Taysa intervenes in Stully's romantic endeavors, a lying dwarf hires us, and the desert awaits! Tom

March 24, 2009 Session We have been playing pretty regularly on Tuesday nights and mostly finished up Chapter III last night. I posted the synopsis just now in case anyone is still interested. scalesofwar » home Gravel runs away, an escape too easy to be true, spectral panthers, and more! Tom

March 03, 2009 Episode To anyone still interested, We completed another session last night as we battled Modra in the dark foundry. Highlights include a narrow passage forcing the busty LaShanna and Taysa to do a bit of squeezing, Stully attemping a complex negotiation with Modra, and...

New Session: Feb 18, 2009 Hello all. We played last night and thanks to a light work schedule I was able to post an update to the site this morning. scalesofwar » Session 20 We travel to the dread Shadowfell and meet up with an army. Taysa, of all people, immediately gets in a fight while...

New Session: Feb 4, 2009 After our hiatus we managed to sneak in a game this week. Our GM had surgery yesterday and is recovering nicely. We may actually be able to play more often if he is up to it because he is off work for a while. Session 19 - Portals - Portals - Portals is found here...

Jan 9 2009 Episode New Episode Available: Jan 9, 2009: This was more of a role-playing investigation as the group attempted to gain entrance to the Happy Beggar and learn more about Modra. Highlights include Stully serving dinner to the homeless, the power of Guku's hair, roaches on the...

Jan 2, 2009 Entry Posted Jan 2, 2009 Entry posted at scalesofwar » home Not much battling in this session as we settled back into Overlook and suddenly realized that our troubles were not over with the destruction of the Orc horde. Highlights include Stully getting lucky, LaShanna in a...