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Quest For The Hanging Glacier – Character Sketch: Mia
Miahuaxiuitl – She knows what you’re thinking Miahuaxiuitl, or Mia to her friends, hails from the Amedio Jungle. Her Necklace of Warmth means that she is unfazed by the biting cold in these mountains....
View ArticleI guess they don’t call it ‘Twit’-ter for nothing…
“Wondering why some game reviewers are idiots. Newspapers don’t review movies based on a script. Why review a module without playing it?” – Goodman Games. Well, lawks-a-lordy. A employee of Goodman...
View ArticleQuest For The Hanging Glacier – Part 10
Two Weeks Later The ritual to open the way to the Hanging Glacier may only be performed on a night of the new moon. Thus a fortnight’s wait is incurred. Lendela and her people have now arrived,...
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My experience of the Edition Wars – through the eyes of Scott Adams
OK, the context is a bit removed from the gaming world and the D&D edition wars, but I have been on the ‘Dilbert’ side of exchanges like this all too often. Two recent dialogues I’ve been involved...
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House Rules – Multiple Attacks in 3.5e
For some time now I’ve been bothered by an annoying rules inconsistency in the way ‘natural’ attacks in 3.5e are handled differently from ‘non-natural’ attacks. Specifically, I don’t like the way that...
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Forgetting the golden rules of dungeon exploration can be a liberating...
Our party is too big, asymmetrically levelled, and has an unbalanced mix of skills. OK, so what else can we do that everyone says is crazy? I know – let’s all split up and go in different directions!...
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So, let’s talk about your fear of multiclassing
I occasionally hear or read comments in which unrestricted multiclassing in 3.X D&D is held to be a bad thing. People will confidently assert the ridiculousness of having, say, more than 3 classes...
View ArticleAll Quiet On The Blogging Front
Battling with my MSc dissertation leaves me little time for blogging right now. Probably going to stay that way for the next couple of months, too. But gaming still happens, for the moment....
View ArticleReturn of the Lurking Gherkin
Well, it’s been a longer sabbatical from blogging here than I expected. Goodness, what a lot of spam I had to deal with on my return….amazing the stuff people try and sell you, and the pretexts they...
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WAR! What is it good for? Well, it can make for a damn fine adventure…
Time for an update on the latest happenings in Gherkin’s Greyhawk. I am presently running a large-scale battle – involving thousands of troops – as an adventure. The challenge with this is to keep the...
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