http://chornjr.myscoutserver.com Musings and thoughts from a geek Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:11:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Two days ago I made a post called "Opinion on Character Creation in 4th Edition" It got a very active response from some of the community. I did post my response but since I do not have a way for people to subscribe to comments to a particular post (yet) ... http://chornjr.myscoutserver.com/rpg/response-to-responses-on-4e-characters I was supposed to post this article like two weeks ago and didn’t. So here it is now. A few days ago I made the first of my Character Counts posts. I made a 3.5 and a 4th edition version of the character. It was my first time making a 4th ... http://chornjr.myscoutserver.com/rpg/opinion-on-character-creation-in-4th-edition-2 Sometimes even the most experienced players and DMs experience a block when coming up with ideas for characters and NPCs. So here I hope to give you every week a new character pretty much completely fleshed out for you to use. For the 3.5 version of the character I am ... http://chornjr.myscoutserver.com/rpg/character-counts-1-%e2%80%93-arthur-dannenberg Last Friday was the ENnie Awards. You can get a complete list of the winners from the front page of EN World. But I just wanted to congratulate Yax and Expy of DungeonMastering for there Gold Medal in the category of Best Fan Product. If you are one of those few ... http://chornjr.myscoutserver.com/uncategorized/congrats-to-teh-2008-ennie-recipients Here are some great articles that I have over the past few months. I hope you find them as enjoyable and interesting as I have. Greywulf’s Lair – If I was the King of Wizards Greywolf list many of the problems he sees with D&D 4 Edition, the minis and Wizards of ... http://chornjr.myscoutserver.com/rpg/from-those-other-guys-08152008 Gwen was sitting on a table as she was convincing all the Gnomes and Halflings to keep buying drinks for her. In one corner of the room was the smelliest thing in the world, Stenchfeng who as usual was drinking, eating and making a mess as loudly as possible all ... http://chornjr.myscoutserver.com/rpg/story-hour-101-mysterious-client After DMing for just about 3 years (with a 1 adventure reprieve) I now get to be just a player. It is a nice and needed break. So now Mike is now the DM and running the first adventure in our new homebrew campaign world called Krydel. So I thought it ... http://chornjr.myscoutserver.com/rpg/story-hour-100-introduction Most adventurers lead towards being good. So putting them up against evil dragons in an encounter makes sense. Go in kill the dragon, take its hoard and save the damsel. But, what about an encounter with a good dragon? No good character would go and willingly fight a good dragon ... http://chornjr.myscoutserver.com/rpg/dragons-%e2%80%93-part-3-%e2%80%93-encounter-of-the-good-kind I decided it was a good idea to post some links to some things I have seen and found interesting on the past few days. I don't think I am going to make this a weekly thing like many other sites do, but who knows. Anyways, here are some cool ... http://chornjr.myscoutserver.com/links/have-a-link So the last time I stated that Dragons should be used in campaigns and that even a 1st level party can get into combat with dragons and win. So here is a possible encounter a 1st level party can have with a Dragon. Now I can’t take credit for this ... http://chornjr.myscoutserver.com/rpg/dragons-%e2%80%93-part-2-%e2%80%93-who%e2%80%99s-afraid-of-the-big-bad%e2%80%a6dragon Well my blog was down, but is now up again. The day after I had jury duty (June 13th) the server was hit with a DOS (Denial of Service) Attack. That lasted until last Friday (June 20th). So about a week and a half the server was down. I made ... http://chornjr.myscoutserver.com/musing_updates/musings-downtime I'll take a Dragon over Jury duty any day of teh week. Why? Because Jury duty is boring, only pays $40 a day, I can't wear shorts in this blistering hot weather. Anyways. I might not post for teh next day or two because of it (Or I may have lots of posts). I hope ... http://chornjr.myscoutserver.com/uncategorized/ahhh-jury-duty When you hear Dungeons & Dragons what do you think about? If you are anything like me you probably think about Dragons. And why not? They are not only in the title of the game but they are universal to just about every culture on Earth. Heck there are even ... http://chornjr.myscoutserver.com/rpg/dragons-%e2%80%93-part-1-%e2%80%93-the-introduction Yes. You read the title correctly. There is a blog run by a Red Dragon and his name is Expy. However we’re not supposed to know that. The blog is called Dungeon Mastering and can be found at www.dungeonmastering.com. Now he tries to pass it off that a mere mortal ... http://chornjr.myscoutserver.com/rpg/dungeon-mastering-a-blog-run-by-a-red-dragon So the latest issue of the Naruto manga come out last Friday and is available at www.narutofan.com. Now it was announced that this would be the “Year of Sasuke.” And it has been. He finally had the showdown with his brother Itachi, and won. Unfortunately they now introduced Madara Uchiha ... http://chornjr.myscoutserver.com/manga/naruto/power-up-abuse-in-mangas Since I basically had to start Joey’s Musings again from scratch I have decided to do things a little different. First I want to ensure I post more often because without me posting, well Joey’s Musings is a waste of space and time. I decided I was bored with the “Misty ... http://chornjr.myscoutserver.com/musing_updates/some-changes-to-joeys-musings As you have noticed, and shame one you if you didn’t, my blog has been down for a little over a week now. My server got upgraded (WAHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) but unfortunately my database was lost in the upgrade process and stupid me never made a backup of it. So I had ... http://chornjr.myscoutserver.com/musing_updates/downtime