We Need The XP!

I will be taking a break from running a completely homebrew game for awhile and switching to a vendor published storyline. This made me choose between companies putting out adventure paths, I looked at two, Wizards of the Coast’s (Wotc) Scales of War, being published currently in Dungeon, and the Paizo Pathfinder Adventure Paths. I will be using D&D 4e to run, but that really didn’t factor into my choice as conversion is pretty easy for me. read more »

There has been some talk around lately on Twitter and blogs about losing one’s 4ginity, playing fourth edition D&D for the first time. These posts are normally followed by a discussion of the author’s discovery that 4th edition is either the most evil thing ever or better than sliced bread. I think both opinions are bunk and I will tell you why, I remember losing my 0ginity and it wasn’t pretty. read more »

Wizards of the Coast's photo of one of the figures. Copyright Wizards of the Coast, Used for review purposes.

One of the guys in my group picked up the entire Player Handbook Heroes Series One Miniatures set this week. The figures look good, I am not a huge fan of the prepainted figures, but I am pleased that with this set you can at least pick the figures you want. Some very odd choices for race/class combinations. I don’t think I have ever seen a Dwarf Rogue in the wild but I am sure they are out there somewhere along with Halfling Clerics. The sculpting and paint jobs are a mix on the figures, some are pretty good, some are pretty meh, and a couple are dogs.

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