Memories of Virginia: Wink and Ren Faires

21 May 2010

Today marks the tenth day since my wife passed.  Tomorrow will be the first game day we'll have attended since she took her sudden turn for the worse. It will…

Tweet Libs: How to Play Dungeons & Dragons

23 Sep 2009

How to Play Dungeons & Dragons from the Wikipedia page Before the game begins, each player creates his or her character and apologizes for the details (described below) on a character draft.…

Dungeons & Dragons Edition Wars: Wrap Up

23 Jun 200921 Jun 2009

Last week I was trying to figure out why Edition Wars are cropping on the Blogshpere.  I am not emotionally tied to any one edition of D&D and wanted your…

Foxbat for President: What if that annoying geek from high school took over?

19 Jun 200919 Jun 2009

Foxbat a Supervillian from the Hero Universe is running for president.  You'll need the fifth edition Hero Rules to play it straight out.  Though the set-up will work well for any…

Dungeons & Dragons Edition Wars: 4e

16 Jun 200911 Jun 2009

The current edition of Dungeons & Dragons is now a year old.  The debate on this new edition of the grandaddy of all RPGs is older than that.  Not a…

Dungeons & Dragons Edition Wars: D&D 3.5

15 Jun 200911 Jun 2009

The third edition of D&D is one that I missed completely.  D&D 3.5, however, is responsible for the renaissance of the RPG industry.  Granted that is my opinion, but WotC…

Dungeons & Dragons Edition Wars: Advanced D&D

13 Jun 20099 Jun 2009

Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, heralded by many for the diverse settings and options for play.  Reviled by just as many for adding a complexity that redefined the word "crunch".  THAC0…

Dungeons & Dragons Edition Wars: Original D&D

12 Jun 200914 Jun 2009

My recent post asking the question of why do we have D&D edition wars erupting across the blogsphere garnered quite a few responses.  The responses were passionate and everyone has their…

Dungeons & Dragons Edition Wars: Why?

6 Jun 2009

I've been sitting here reading through various blogs, forums, tweets about why people hate D&D version (X).  Twitter yesterday even had folks espousing their hatred of 5th edition and it hasn't…

I got the Monster Manual 2 and I’m not going away…..

20 May 200920 May 2009

Due to lots of graduation stuff going on with PIT#1, I've been a little lax with my updates.  Today I picked up my copy of Monster Manual 2.  As I'll…