I had to stop myself to think about why I had difficulty designing the Hypnotist class. Generally, I expect things I’m confident about doing to be fairly straightforward, but I found difficulty putting one foot in front of the other[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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So, I’ve borrowed H1: Keep on the Shadowfell for help to designing the adventure for our Saturday gaming group to follow H3: Pyramid of Shadows, (hint: search “White Cliff” on this blog) and it occurred to me that since I’ve[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, my friend Don and I were talking about what sort of game we’d like to play, if and when we start a new campaign via Skype. I have some obvious reservations, ’cause running a game online is difficult and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In an effort to distance myself from the Dungeons & Dragons way of doing things, I took some steps to change things in subtle ways so that I could open my mind to new possibilities. Lots of ideas came from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I made a list of conditions that either make sense for the Hypnotist, or they make sense due to the Hypnotist’s flavor, and they are as follows: Blinded, Dazed, Dominated, Immobilized, Restrained, Slowed, Stunned, Unconscious, and Weakened (not all at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Following my first thoughts, I did a quick search of the D&D Compendium and found to my delight that there are precisely four powers in all of Fourth Edition (for player characters) that make use of the [Sleep] tag. One[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I mulled over some of the ideas I came up with for the Hypnotist this morning, and I came up with a couple basic powers and conditions that I want to associate with the class, and a couple key[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I want to create a class for Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition — specifically, a death mage. Actually, I really want to make a whole bunch of them, but I’m thinking that I should restrain myself. It isn’t like I’m[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I got off to a bad start with Dave, the half-elf ranger in our party. It probably had something to do with how I was assaulted before I ever joined the party, which had put me in a right sour[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s a cool little standalone campaign setting that came out right on the Dungeons & Dragons 3.0/3.5 cusp, called Ghostwalk, which has always intrigued me. The book goes to certain lengths to tear down the concept of death and the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…