tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57310472024-03-15T20:12:48.558-05:00Seamist Inn - Dungeons & DragonsA private blog for our D&D game. This site is only set up for a select few people to use and post, but if you would like to participate, let us know by posting a comment or creating a username on the forums.ArcoJedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02973286642647633765noreply@blogger.comBlogger124125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731047.post-87687366348527428552024-02-10T01:35:00.001-06:002024-02-10T01:35:44.229-06:00Humanoid Swarms for Mass Combat :: 5e D&DI was doing research on mass combat rules for D&D 5e for …reasons… and I know there's nothing completely official. There is a 2017 Unearthed Arcana for Mass Combat [PDF] published by Wizards of the Coast. In fact, there are two PDFs for this, the other likely from 2015.
In previous editions, there were the Battlesystem rules, especially the Battlesystem 2nd Edition that I was ArcoJedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02973286642647633765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731047.post-43744232294427372362023-12-04T01:12:00.001-06:002024-02-10T01:44:49.953-06:00Pathfinder Stripped of Traces of D&D in New RulebooksIt would be ironic that the same year that I was first instroduced to playing Pathfinder in earnest was the same year that Wizards of the Coast, in their ultimate wisdom would decide to stab themselves in confusion and cause a big controversial upheaval in the games industry by pre-releasing an update to their gaming license rules. Which in summary was going to severely hurt independent creators.ArcoJedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02973286642647633765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731047.post-34507758129484338882023-06-12T22:46:00.001-05:002023-06-12T22:46:00.172-05:00[Book Recommendation] Legends & Lattes by Travis BaldreeThis book was recommended to me and I'm going to grab it through the Libby app. It was mentioned like this:
...like Samone and his coffee plants...
Ooh, that's a memory I'd not retrieved in a while. First here's the book.
My stepbrother played in a Dark Sun campaign that I ran back in the day, and he played a Halfling Druid/Thief that had a home base just east of Gulg at a small hidden ArcoJedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02973286642647633765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731047.post-77692495273011665502022-08-30T00:12:00.002-05:002022-08-30T00:12:53.887-05:00Wandering Around DroaamMy characters in Eberron are spending an extended amount of time hanging out in Droaam. Specifically they are in the realm of Kethelrax the Cunning. For various inspiration reasons, I've been gathering notes for Droaam overland travel, the different warlord factions and an extended Kobold fortress.
A Kobold Cave fortress from the video game "Pool of Radiance" that could be a 5e dungeon with ArcoJedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02973286642647633765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731047.post-28502723984267599662022-05-24T01:33:00.006-05:002024-02-10T00:42:11.480-06:00In Praise of the Dungeon Masters GuildI can't say enough good things about the Dungeon Masters Guild and the other sites in the family of OneBookShelf.com. Tons of free and paid resources, books and adventures. In fact, as of today I'm looking to add them as affiliate links to this blog. Here's a quick test:
If that worked, something should appear above this paragraph with an updated feed of reviews from their site. Edit: This does ArcoJedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02973286642647633765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731047.post-16125305195951240312021-12-25T23:31:00.005-06:002021-12-25T23:31:37.143-06:00Merry Christmas - Have Some... Chaos!Here are some Xmas gifts that GMs can gift to their players (in game). These are all from Brian Patterson's webcomic d20monkey.com, which you should check out start to finish at some point. His art style is great and his writing shines. For a couple years around Christmastime, he would do an interlude comic with a random certificate or item list to gift your players. I've saved all of them that IArcoJedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02973286642647633765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731047.post-7288655500687440682021-10-13T23:25:00.006-05:002021-10-13T23:31:31.972-05:00Social Interaction Cheat SheetI've been reading a lot lately about how to quickly run social interaction in a D&D 5e game. Obviously, when it's called for, a DM can simply roleplay a social encounter and deal with the consequences in conversation. But if pressed for time or otherwise preferable, it's possible to quickly determine how an NPC would react to a character's request by consulting the chart and rolling some diceArcoJedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02973286642647633765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731047.post-81257505485507561112021-06-26T18:54:00.001-05:002021-06-26T18:54:21.566-05:00Zee Bashew: Everyone's Lying About Dice (Part 2)I tried to explain in my last post that I both love and loathe the widely held concept of "dice training" and "dice personalities" and other sorts of dice-related myths. After all, I proclaim, these are just lifeless globs of plastic that -- in a perfect world -- would simply have some statistically consistent randomness to them. A twenty-sided die has a equal 5% chance of landing on any ArcoJedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02973286642647633765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731047.post-23230556431697028532021-06-09T20:53:00.002-05:002021-10-06T12:10:40.970-05:00Everyone's Lying About Dice
This video makes me laugh, but also makes me angry at the same time. I've never bought into dice myths, loudly rejecting them when I hear them. ArcoJedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02973286642647633765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731047.post-50760076822460346732021-02-28T01:01:00.001-06:002021-02-28T01:01:45.244-06:00Weighty Chest (2nd Edition Spell) & Thor's Hammer MjolnirI was reminded tonight of an old nostalgic game that I ran many years ago. We were playing AD&D 2nd edition, Dark Sun campaign setting. My stepbrother... what can I say? He often takes a simple character concept and makes it awesome. AND by "awesome" I mean he makes it game-breaking.
In this instance, he had made a halfling druid/thief named Samone. Halflings in Dark Sun are typically ArcoJedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02973286642647633765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731047.post-90000051086101974672021-02-04T00:23:00.000-06:002021-02-04T00:23:01.803-06:00BRING ON THE MUPPETS IN D&D!Are we ready to have some fun and get silly? Boing Boing has an article about an unofficial race made for D&D that allows you to play as a muppet monster.
This delightful monster sheet was designed by BJ Hypes, and covers pretty much everything you'd need to make your Muppets canon:
Muppetborn
Fabric? Is that all I am to you? My blood may be colorful and glittery, but I ArcoJedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02973286642647633765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731047.post-10281355222235208872019-02-20T00:14:00.000-06:002019-02-20T00:14:03.469-06:00Eberron CampaignsA year ago, I posted about two D&D campaigns I was running, with a third one possibly starting at some point. Here's an update.
First off, as a player in other campaigns I've gotten a lot of experience with 5th edition. And so have many of my players. In fact, with the help of their friends, middle child pretty much launched a small mutiny and insisted that we transition to 5e. So the ArcoJedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02973286642647633765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731047.post-68182946782591420252018-08-09T00:03:00.000-05:002018-08-09T00:03:05.582-05:00The Free City of TyrI'm currently running a Dark Sun game and want to catch my players up-to-date with where they are in Tyr and what is currently happening. I can think of no better way to do that than to use an official source description written back in 1992. The following text was lifted from DSQ1 - Road to Urik and edited a bit to match what I need. I'll outline my changes below.
For unnumbered ArcoJedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02973286642647633765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731047.post-78955021529578591612018-02-09T00:55:00.000-06:002018-02-09T00:55:45.496-06:00Campaigns AnewQuite by happy accident, over the last year I've suddenly found myself running two separate Dungeons & Dragons games with a third one potentially starting soon. I'm also playing in a Star Wars: Edge of the Empire campaign, which is a first for me. Even young Samwise is getting into the game a bit. I run a game for him by himself, and keep things super loose with the rules since he's only 8. ArcoJedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02973286642647633765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731047.post-34033026385847355522017-07-23T16:03:00.000-05:002017-07-23T16:03:28.805-05:00Reddit: Want to learn to play D&D? You can start right now!New post today caught my eye. Want to learn to play D&D? You can start right now...It is an interesting post inviting new players to learn about D&D, but what I love most about the comment threads are the gold nuggets of wisdom and links to online tools that can be used in gaming. Here's a few I dug out, but as the post ages it might gain more. Monster Advancer Classic
The Digital DungeonArcoJedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02973286642647633765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731047.post-8113424332204003012016-03-17T22:58:00.001-05:002016-03-18T17:53:02.402-05:00We Delve
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Source: d20monkey - We DelveArcoJedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02973286642647633765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731047.post-75205910004711496272016-03-12T23:22:00.000-06:002016-03-30T12:01:00.256-05:00Penny Arcade - D&D Podcast - Dark Sun
A few years ago, I'd found a series of audio podcasts of the guys from Penny Arcade and PvP getting together to feature and play test the latest version of Dark Sun for 4th edition.
I've been a fan of Penny Arcade for a while, and I also read PvP on occasion. I downloaded the podcasts and burned them to disc and listened to them through several times on long drives. They were exciting and funny ArcoJedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02973286642647633765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731047.post-42957462535389428432016-03-04T21:30:00.000-06:002016-03-04T21:30:18.641-06:00RPG Character Portraits (Female) 1,408 through 2,015Here is a fifth and final batch. See part 4 here.
ArcoJedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02973286642647633765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731047.post-82400982039640766002016-03-03T20:57:00.000-06:002016-03-03T20:57:08.463-06:00The Rules of PlanescapeBack in the day, I had a fun time playing with friends in the Planescape campaign. It was literally an infinite tablet of interesting places to visit, with as much expanse and complexity as the DM wanted to put into it. For the uninitiated, Planescape as a campaign setting re-introduced the idea of an entire cosmology to Dungeons & Dragons. The game's setting could now traverse multiple ArcoJedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02973286642647633765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731047.post-40094335257333876932016-03-02T22:13:00.000-06:002016-03-02T22:13:08.761-06:00Dice ShamingSometimes, the dice fail you. Call it Murphy's Law if you'd like. You need an easy roll, as easy success and the moment comes and the dice lands on an unlikely low number. And your hero fails miserably in a way that strains credibility.
Shame on you dice, shame on you.
ArcoJedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02973286642647633765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731047.post-36137757425195533482015-11-13T18:17:00.001-06:002015-11-13T18:17:03.067-06:00Win a Legendary Copper Dice SetCheck out these dice! They are Legen......Wait for it... Yes, I went there......DARY!Win Our Legendary Copper Dice Set With Box!ArcoJedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02973286642647633765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731047.post-40167720128518655202014-05-27T20:52:00.000-05:002016-03-04T15:46:11.872-06:00RPG Character Portraits (Female) 933 through 1,407 of 2,015Here is a fourth batch. See part 3 here.
ArcoJedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02973286642647633765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731047.post-91853014023527822812014-05-26T12:32:00.000-05:002014-05-26T14:19:19.392-05:00RPG Character Portraits (Female) 403 through 932 of 2,015Here is a third batch. See part 2 here.
ArcoJedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02973286642647633765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731047.post-41555602321468691882014-05-15T23:17:00.000-05:002014-05-26T14:19:19.380-05:00RPG Character Portraits (Female) 312 through 402 of 2,015 Here is a second batch. See part 1 here.
ArcoJedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02973286642647633765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731047.post-58730126732282021552014-05-13T21:26:00.000-05:002014-05-26T14:19:19.387-05:00RPG Character Portraits (Female) 311 of 2,015Fantasy role-playing games owe a debt to fantasy art. In order to visualize your character, it helps to have portrait examples as inspiration. I'm loading up a few posts with a collection of RPG characters portraits that I've collected from ...somewhere. If someone comments with a link to the original source of this entire set, I'd appreciate it.
First up, we have a collection of female portraitsArcoJedihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02973286642647633765noreply@blogger.com0