Search results

PAX East is taking place this weekend. The big focus is an Aquisitions Inc. live game and seminars, but they are also running Candlekeep. The big news was word that the upcoming organized play campaign will feature factions (a concept first started back with earlier organized play campaigns...

It can be really cool. There are parts I like and don't like about the Neverwinter MMO, but they way they and Wizards have worked together on the visuals and story is really impressive. Any of the story/playlines in the MMO comes right out of the Neverwinter sourcebook and is steeped in FR Lore...

Some of that's valid, but let's be honest - that's what everyone's home campaign is like too! Die Hard movie series, anyone? It's a fantasy world, with every epic threat seeming like the most incredible nail-biter, until the next one. But, for all of that, the Sundering adventures are really...

There has been a mind-numbing number of introductory boxed sets for D&D, covering every edition several times over. Each of them has some positives (I have enjoyed looking over them) and some negatives, because it is very hard to provide the right balance. On one hand, you want to provide a...

If you are interested in D&D organized play and can do it, consider coming to Gen Con. It is a good bet that there will be a lot of great stuff going down for 5E. And, it is also very possible that DMs for Baldman Games would wind up with a PHB as a reward in addition to the other judge rewards...

Each 3-core set of books has outsold the previous one. The AD&D Monster Manual released at the end of 1977, had an initial print run of 50,000 copies. Over the next 12 years it was reprinted 15 times. The PHB was released in August of '78 and sold 10,000 copies in 3 months. The 2E PHB sold...

Yeah, that makes sense! It's interesting to ponder whether an edition should aim for the 2-book model or not. I tend to think that for the second tier of RPGs (13th Age, Eclipse Phase, FATE, Numenera) a single book with rules for both DMs and players is a more compelling purchase - and that the...

I updated the first post for the latest Dead in Thay article. This announces the upcoming season, launch event, and provides links to the summary Sundering videos. The solicitation can also be found here, providing the contents of the kit. The big changes this and the current season are sole...

Very cool. Could you add in a DMG type book for Pathfinder, for comparison of "three books"? I would argue that the 3E DMG wasn't really needed either, but a 3-core set seems like the right method of comparison across editions.

There were no public announcements at Winter Fantasy, though it was pretty clear that something is in the works. I am hoping for an announcement very soon!

Also worth mentioning that the Winter Fantasy convention concluded this past weekend, bringing to a close the Living Forgotten Realms campaign. While a couple of new adventures will be released and play can continue, this was the conclusion for all practical purposes. It was a fantastic finish...

Some very good news for Organized Play, as the ENnies awards will now recognize it with two new categories! (This information was on the ENnies site, but it is momentarily down). As you may have heard, the ENnie Awards, in an effort to continue to ensure that every segment of our hobby is...

The upcoming D&D Encounters season, Scourge of the Sword Coast is now on DnDClassics as a digital download. The adventure includes the last public set of playtest rules (but does not provide any updates Wizards has made internally since that time). The adventure also includes statistics for D&D...

I've updated the first thread with additional information for Scourge of the Sword Coast, the next season of Encounters (starting in February). The adventure will be digital only, and stores signing up to run for the adventure get a credit on DnDClassics. As noted before, the previous seasons of...

While other organized play programs (most of them, really) offer adventures only digitally, this is a bit different. The Encounters adventures are also the Sundering adventures, serving as a transition from the current 4E Realms to the D&D Next Realms. They act as a transition for gamers, but...

Some very interesting information on changes to Encounters. It looks as if the adventures will now be digital only, but still require purchase. That's a really interesting change and I'm very curious as to the reasons behind it!

I agree with the points you make. A number of people have felt the paper is too thin, but I'm okay with it and I see the overall value as high. Arguably, these adventures are a far higher value for a DM than the old TSR/WotC approach of publishing a big hardback book or boxed set and a separate...

Some of the Lair Assaults have some pieces that may make a digital version less attractive, or at least require printing out in color and cutting stuff out (mount cards, DM map, certainly poster maps). It will be interesting to see if they end up releasing them on DnD Classics. I've updated the...

I updated the first post for the latest season, Legacy of the Crystal Shard. As with Murder in Baldur's Gate, it began with a launch weekend event (we had a great time with it). The season is again a for-purchase product containing a DM's screen with information useful to running the...

Duplicate post, sorry.