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I want it to be less mechanical. It's a game played in a collective imagination, I don't need that many mechanics to make it work. I want magic items to be fantastic again. Not just mechanical modifiers. I want to be able to to easily create characters without using a computer. I want a...

Tonight we're celebrating 4 years of adventuring, so I took the plunge. Shish-kabob. Beef, chicken, peppers, mushrooms, and potatoes on the grill. I don't expect any leftovers.

In defense of my patio furniture in the house, I have 2 little girls and live in a ranch style house. Playing in the kitchen or dining room would have been too loud for them, so we ended up in the family room. At the time, the patio furniture was the easiest things to move. Everyone liked the...

After this week's gaming session, as I was cleaning up, I thought about the evolution of our gaming space. We've always played at my house, but have moved and changed quite a bit. We started on my back porch, when 4E was released. That worked well for a little while, but we played too late...

We have a guy who travels frequently, so we ran through a bunch of these options. Tried Skype and google with the webcams. It was fairly unreliable because his bandwidth in hotels is poor. After much experimenting, we settled on maptools and a conference number, with a star phone. Maptools...

Wow, I followed Gary's advice without even hearing it. For the record, I tried legos when 4e first came out. The measurements didn't work with the 4e grid, but with kids....that shouldn't matter as much. One is away for a couple weeks, but I think once she's back, I will definitely have to...

When I first introduced my kids to the game, I did use minis, which is what drew them to it in the first place. I was looking for more of an AD&D experience, theatre of the mind, than 4e. But I think the map, for a dungeon crawl will be a better match next time. Thanks for several people...

I think we all have those days. Sometimes you just want them to stay NEAR the train. They don't have to stay on the tracks, or even ride the train, just stay remotely near it.

While I will probably add a map, I'm not sold on minis and definitely wouldn't take on the complexity of grid based combat....yet.

Thanks, at points it felt like herding cats. I can see the appeal of a pet or familiar for them to get attached to. I can guarantee it won't be a baby unicorn named "Uni"

I should add, I think they all had a good time and both of mine can't wait to have the kids back over and play some more.

Tuesday night my regular group was missing enough guys that we postponed the game. In a fit of insanity, I invited my brother and his 2 step daughters(ages 11 and 12) and my cousin and his son(age 8), to join my 2 daughters(ages 8 and 5), in a short D&D adventure. My two have sat at our game...

I downloaded them from WoTC on the second day, but will confess to sharing them with my players. We're trying it tonight! Can't wait.

I'm another maptools/projector guy. We started with a gridded whiteboard. Moved onto Dunjinni, where I printed and taped the maps together. Got the projector and shot it down at the table, but it was a real pain to setup/take down every week, so we started projecting at the wall. Add a...

Followers of Zargon pursue the party looking to retrieve the horn.

3 words, Breakfast for Dinner A few months ago I did Breakfast for Dinner. 10 lbs of homefries, a bacon/egg/cheese casserole, and a broccoli/egg/cheese casserole. There was nothing left.

My 4e group has expressed interest in running through Tomb Of Horrors. As a prep for that, we're running through C1. As always, the topic of how to handle mapping came up when we started talking about AD&D. After a bit of thinking, I offered to take on the role. I'm the usual 4e DM, and we...

I was in a similar situation, trying to decide what to buy. I already had a kindle and very much enjoy reading on it. My concern with forking over $500+ on an ipad was, how much will I really use it? In the end, I opted to go with a Kindle Fire. For my family, it was the right choice. With...

Looks good. I wish I had to space to build a large table. So it goes.

Agreed, much, much better.