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Hi all, Working with the Going Last podcast we have made available Table Tents for use in D&D. Table Tents are folded in half and placed on the table during play in front of each player, displaying the character name, class, and other information. An image helps bring the concept to life...

There are a couple of different rewards I like. First and foremost, I want to see DMs encouraged to DM. One part of that is for DMs to feel like DMing is cool. They are recognized, cared for, valued, and seen as special. A second part is to remove perceived detriments to DMing. Along those...

That's fantastic! I am running another kid through the beginning of the adventure this week and very much looking forward to it.

That is an excellent page! Really helpful, thanks!

An admin would need to say for sure, but I think with a large student body (and parents) this would qualify.

All good questions! The reporting mechanism for stores is the normal WPN method (the store will know tall about the Event Reporter tool, which will be streamlined for D&D in the future). As noted in the article on the web site, you report it as a "D&D Casual Event". If running it at a different...

I wrote a deliberately campy Flumph-based adventure of sci-fi and horror for the Going Last site, called The Last Stand at Camp Starfall.

Because someone asked, yes, D&D is rated for ages 12+. I have run for kids younger than that several times over the past few years and have approval from the neighborhood parents. I would advise anyone wanting to run for kids to also get approval. I think it is important when running for kids to...

I purchased the Starter Set and unexpectedly the neighborhood kids wanted to try it. We had kids of ages 7, 8, 10, 11, and 12. We played in two sessions. Session 1 handled the ambush and ended with starting to track the last goblin. Session 2 explored about half of the Cragmaw Hideout. The...

Amazing work! I appreciate the mention of the Ashes of Athas adventure. We had a lot of fun writing it, especially seeing the different ways tables interacted with the aarakocra. We heard a few stories (and personally ran some tables) where PCs had died in that adventure and were now...

New article up on the Expeditions part of Adventurers League. It does a nice job of explaining the history behind living campaigns and the thought process that took part in creating Expeditions. There are some interesting bits in the article. For example, you use character creation rules for a...

I think the nature of the campaign dictates how retrain rules work. In LG, your primary character was a big deal because it was you face in the community over 5-8 years (people knew each other's characters and the PCs' deeds, mannerisms, etc.). Retrains of something like class and race would...

They did say you can go back-and-forth between them. So, you could play some of HotDQ and then play Expeditions and then play the rest of HotDQ. Or, you could just play the published adventures and you would level out of the other types of play. Think of it as having many more options than...

I like the talking hawk idea. You might have it be the familiar of a wizard, who like "Dungeon Master" in the cartoon can provide hints and summarize goals and past events. I've run some tables for kids in that age group, and especially when they are new to the game I would aim for short...

That sounds really cool. I want to play in that campaign, and for you to run it for me! ;-) In all seriousness, I think gamers are better off with Wizards running one primary campaign and from time to time sprinkling in a smaller and shorter-running side campaign that is fairly different. Other...

I'm a big fan of playing multiple organized play programs! Each program scratches a slightly different itch. In the end, it is all gamings and RPGs and a fun time.

Many good points. On number of adventures, keep in mind that for most of the regions you had 8 in-region adventures per calendar year. That's what most players were playing each year, plus a few cores. The truly vested were usually playing all the cores and then traveling. You could average an...

I think that community is a big part of AL's value. Even with Encounters it can be fun to see how different groups tackle the same adventure. With Expeditions you add greater persistence, because you are in the same region and things will likely change. Maybe the church in town is demolished...

That's because LFR was much more than the convention scene. Interestingly, at the start of LFR WotC was on a strange anti-convention kick - a time when the policies they changed really eroded support for convention play. There were very few reasons to attend conventions at that time. BUT, there...

The numbers LG pulled at its best were lower than the numbers of players LFR had as its best. As with all organized campaigns, changes were made to improve what is offered. While any individual has things they like more or less about a particular program (or time in a program), overall there...