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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

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 links for you.

DDI
Throughout the marketing campaign used by Wizards of the Coast they have been pushing DDI (Dungeon and Dragons Insider) and said it would be out and available to use when 4th Edition came out. Well, let’s face it. That didn’t happen. However today (well yesterday technically I guess) part of DDI has become available, in a limited fashion at least. The Online Rules Compendium is up. I gave it a quick test drive, but wasn’t impressed, however when more supplements come out and are added I think it will be more useful. Go give it a try by clicking here and then let us all know how it went by leaving a comment about it here

HOT GIRL – Grace Park!
If you are anything like me you are a fan of Battlestar Galactica. Continuing along that path if you are like me you think the actress who plays Boomer/Athena/Skinjob Cylon #8 is really hot. Well we aren’t the only ones. Complex Magazine made her the cover girl and has an interview with her and several of the pictures taken of her on their website, as well as a video. Damn she hot. It brings a whole new use to the term “Frack Me”

What are you cooking for dinner? Why Gnome Stew of course
Gnome Stew is a great RPG blog from the creators of the now defunct Treasure Tables. It has multiple posters which means there are always plenty of articles. Just today they posted an article about using Defensive Rolls for a 3.5 D&D game as well as announced their new forums for GMs called You Meet in a Tavern.

One Line NPC for prizes
Chatty at Musings of a Chatty DM has a contest going on where you come up with an NPC in only one line. There are multiple prizes. SO give it a whirl and win some prizes

It’s Villainous
Yax over at dungeonmastering.com (yes the site run by a Red Dragon) had a great article on Uber-Villans for your D&D campaign. And yesterday’s Sunday quiz is testing your knowledge of the many different versions of D&D from the 1973 Basic D&D all the way through this month release of 4th Edition. So go and see how knowledgeable you are.

Earth, Wind, Fire and Water
An old series of articles from RPG Thoughts, but these articles on using Elementals in your RPG are really good and worth reading. They are called Elemental elementals and Elemental Elementals part 2 – “Burned to the ground”. Good job Maikl

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Dragons! – Part 2 – Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad…Dragon?

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

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 encounter. Inspiration came from an adventure made by the good people at Wizards of the Coast.

The Encounter

Your PCs have entered some buried ruins. They are controlled by two factions. One is a faction of Kobolds and the other a faction of Goblins. The Kobolds have somehow gotten their hands on a wyrmling White Dragon which they planned to use against the Goblins to gain control of the ruins. Unfortunately for the Kobolds is that they can’t actually control the Dragon and it killed one of its handlers and walked off. At the same time a Goblin war party was heading to attack the kobolds and saw the raging dragon and tried to run away. Somehow they managed to lock the Dragon in a room.

There are several possible ways to have your players come across this Dragon.

  • The first is they randomly come across this room.
  • They meet the Kobolds and they offer the PCs an assortment of treasures (at least one of which should be a minor magic item of some sort) to get their pet back for them
  • They meet the Goblins who offer the PCs an assortment of treasures to kill the Kobolds horrible monster

Maybe you don’t want them to fight a Dragon. Maybe you want to make it more enticing to help the Dragon. Hey, a Dragon getting out of being imprisoned can have a long term affect on your campaign world. It could also be a helpful friend (though more likely for long lived races like Elves and Dwarfs, not short life spanned races like Humans or Half-Orcs). So instead of a White Dragon make it a good Dragon (I suggest not a Gold Dragon) and the PCs have to assist it in escaping.

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