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Ignoring game stats, what makes for the best NPC description in a module? I'm interested in how we can most effectively describe NPCs in as few words as possible. When you design your adventures, is there a "magic formula" that you turn to for listing NPC traits? What's most important to you -...

My latest Dungeon adventure, "King of the Wolves", has a simple skill challenge where the PCs are challenged to rescue a villager from a fire: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/dungeon/2013November

Thanks! I can confirm that they're very tasty too!

Disintegrate your dinner guests this Christmas with my Scotch Egg Beholders! Here's how you make them: http://beholderpie.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/scotch-egg-beholders.html Merry Christmas! ;)

Hey all! In a couple of weekends' time I'm wrapping up a very long-running 3.5 campaign after a hiatus of about 4 years (!). I want it to go out on a bang, but I don't really have time to work up some of the key NPCs :( Does anyone know where decent BBEG statblocks can be found on the internet...

The original Ravenloft. That castle is riddled with secret doors and hidden passages.

Yes! Parlainth was excellent, and I still find myself drawn back to it at times. Stormbringer's Rogue Mistress could be my favourite non-D&D fantasy adventure. Over the years, I've brought quite a few gamers into the hobby using that one. It's just great.

White Plume Mountain definitely ranks near the top of my list. It's pure gonzo D&D: swinging across boiling mud pools on chain-linked platforms, fighting through giant inverted ziggurats with crazed monsters on every level, kayaking down floating underground rivers, and so on. It's not got much...

I love moments like that! My friend recently used a sea dragon to ambush his PCs. As he described it roaring up from the depths, jaws wide open, one of the PCs hurled a portable boat into its maw and spoke the command word to turn it into a ship. Splat!

Brilliant work. I'm particularly pleased you included build notes for your Winterhaven setup. I'll definitely be picking some of those buildings up. The wizard's tower you used for your interlude adventure is pretty sweet too.

An average difficulty encounter broken down into waves is going to be a cakewalk for most groups. Characters can most likely gang up on enemies, so the opposition is going to drop fast. I'd do as Merric suggests and wing it, just bringing more mooks into play as needed. Don't bother tracking...

I'm guessing he means a mix of monster roles (skirmishers, brutes, etc) with a variety of terrain that makes for interesting tactical choices on the battlemap. How the encounter is formatted in the adventure booklet isn't so important as how its components interact on the table (also, the delve...

One of my worst ever 4E battles had two groups of minions fighting, with the PCs caught in the middle. Rolling multiple attacks versus myself (no matter how simple the system) quickly got boring for my players. This said, some of my best battles have featured the same setup, but with the PCs...

I've got the book here. There are different terrain features depending on whether you're in the Shallows, the Deeps, or the Feydark/Shadowdark. All are patches of weirdness 5-10 squares contiguous that can be identified with Dungeoneering/Religion checks. All but Godsrock trigger effects when...

The Arboretum - Command the Green. Harness it like steel. Weapon Mongers - Unleash the fungal spores! Nationalists - Purge our enemies like weeds, and seed our empire from the ruins.

I think this same topic of dinosaurs came up this board a little while back... I like dinosaurs, and I'd like to see them in the MM. However, I prefer the made-up names (well, some of them). Certain real-world dinosaur names sound terrible in a fantasy setting. For example, I'd like to use an...

I prefer this!

Great work! These look amazing.

I'm guessing you can't get a proper rest because you're camping in a hostile environment, rather than sleeping on bumpy ground. You're having to mount watches, and you can't sleep so well because you know you could get ambushed any second. The design intent feels a little cludgy though. I'm...