I got this ball rolling by talking about roles available to characters in 4th Edition. I think a case could be made for reading this post first, if you’re inclined to perversity in following lists. While the previous post discussed the various broad services that a particular character might provide the party—healing, damage absorption, extreme […]
I love 4e. This is known. This has been demonstrated. Recent house…I don’t call it cleaning, so perhaps “Item Shuffling” is more accurate…has added beloved books to the pile I’ve been picking up when I find them on sale. This stokes the central engine, cast in iron and chased with bronze, that powers my whole deal. I’ve […]
Just now, in the shower, I was thinking about Magic Missiles. Specifically, I was thinking about how the party for my weekly Encounters game has apparently “lost” their wand of Magic Missiles. They received one for defeating an earlier foe, a necromancer whose downfall sort of took three sessions. By this I mean it took […]
>I play a lot of Dungeons and Dragons. It’s all online via message board these days, though, and that’s a medium with a tremendous turnover and failure rate. Awesome game ideas crop up, recruit players, and then…well, not every game comes back after a three month hiatus. This means that I roll lots of characters, […]
Next on my laundry list of series I started in 2010 and need to complete, I’m going to wrap up talking about the non-Essentials DnD defenders and their marks. I may come back and hit up Essentials defenders at a later date, though that’s probably worth no more than a supplemental mini-post.* I already covered […]
Eventually I’ll have flavor text for all of this, but I started writing individual, kingdom-specific flavor for each class and nearly blacked out. Most of the racial abilities were wholly off the cuff (feats too) so I don’t know exactly where they fit in terms of balance. Goblins and bugbears stand to receive some special […]
Ego Poisoning 