The first step to solving a problem is admitting you have one ( Read more... )

In less than a month World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King is released, and I have to say, I am excited. That said, I haven't played Warcraft in two months. Dragomir, my orc warrior, languishes at the cusp of 40, and yet I haven't even logged on to farm iron so I can afford a mount. Why have I so neglected a hobby for which I pay a monthly fee ( Read more... )

Saturday we finally got together again for some D&D. The group seems to sink their teeth into a new aspect of 4e every time, and this session it was action points, as best demonstrated by Krayden, below. This time they made their first foray into the dungeons of Stormwing Keep in order to find (among other things) the wedding ring of Larissa ( Read more... )

I recently began converting some of the 3e Spawn of Tiamat to 4e, starting with my favorite, the Blackspawn Raider, and of course its advanced cousin, the Blackspawn Exterminator. Take a look:

Blackspawn Raider
Level 8 Skirmisher
Medium natural humanoid (reptile); 350 xp
Initiative +8
Senses Perception +10, Darkvision
HP 88; Bloodied 44
AC 22, ( Read more... )

Ah, back from a long weekend. I went out to Holden Beach, NC over Labor Day weekend to have some fun in the sun, surf, and sand. Good times. Mary and I drove down on Saturday and got there around 3 in the afternoon, so we checked into the house my folks had rented and chilled out while waiting for the rest of my family to arrive. Once everyone got ( Read more... )

As you probably already know (and as I posted about recently), John McCain staffer Michael Goldfarb recently made several insensitive and ignorant remarks about D&D and the players thereof. The very vocal gaming community has universally denounced Goldfarb for his insult, and Wizards of the Coast is letting their opinions be heard as well. You can ( Read more... )

One of the players in my 4e game decided during character creation that his PC is a drug user with a Timothy Leary-esque, "expand your consciousness, dude" view on the subject. So far this has been given little attention in-game, mostly because I want to get the story rolling before I delve into character-specific subplots, but also because I ( Read more... )

Arg. I want to play D&D very badly, and yet, I cannot. It seems that everyone's busy schedules continue to devour them whole, and thus I am consigned to playing merely once a month. My goal is to get everyone together at least twice a month, but so far scheduling has been difficult. At least the party is finally at the mouth of the dungeon, so when ( Read more... )

Apparently an article on the McCain campaign website had some less than kind things to say about people who play D&D. Not the kind of faux pas that nets a lot of attention, but still a dick thing to do. This, of course, was followed up by a half-assed apology. Hm, whoever thought that we'd see candidates pandering to the "tabletop roleplaying gamer ( Read more... )