GAME REVIEW Today I want to talk about a small jewel of the past. A game that was not a true role-playing game, neither a classical tabletop. It stood in the middle of both categories. Advanced Heroquest was published in 1989 by Game Workshop. It was meant to be the sequel of Heroquest. However the […]
This article wants to provide the Game Master an answer, and a method, to the daunting question… How to explain D&D rules to newbie players When I say “D&D rules” I’m including Rpg like D&D 3.0/3.5; Pathfinder 1ed; Pathfinder 2ed; Starfinder and D&D 5ed. The list can be extended to other Rpg rulesets of course,
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SESSION FIVE Previous Article…Campaign Chronicles #7 – Session Three and Four So, here we are again to tell the events occured in Session Five of these campaign chronicles. In the previous episode we left our characters close to their goal. Reaching the lighthouse after a small skirmish against a patrol of two pirates. As I
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SESSION THREE AND FOUR Previous Article…Campaign Chronicles #6 – Session Two In this article we resume the events occured in session three and session four. SESSION FOUR This session marks for the character the arrival at the town of Seawell, after a week long journey and a couple of encounter with gnolls. The PCs now
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Buildings, Equipment, Infrastructures and Trade Goods Previous Article…Dwarves & Mining #5 part 6 – D&D Mining Guide – The Settlement’s Events This article is the last about the small pack of tips to build a mining settlement. We present a sketch of what we call Buildings, Equipment, Infrastructures and Trade Goods. Some explanation about each
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THE SETTLEMENT’s EVENTS Previous article…Dwarves & Mining #5 part 5 – Mining Guide – The Settlement’s Actions Fine. We’ve seen the actions and some of them may be under construcion at the time you are reading this article. The next planned step is to brew some events. We should consider the Events as if they
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BOOK OF ARTIFACTS ARTIFACTS INDEX FOREWORD If you are planning to run a campaign where a powerful fiend must be prevented from achieving freedom and roaming the world, the Acorn of Wo Mai is what you need. The Acorn of Wo Mai, as the name implies, has an oriental flavor, because Wo Mai was the
THE SETTLEMENT Previous article…Dwarves & Mining #4 – D&D Mining Guide – Mining Output This topic could easily be something completely separated from the last four articles about mining. That is because we could define how a settlement works and treat it as standing-on-its-own template. It mean that we may define how to run a
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The Book of Artifacts: A Review of the Legendary and Obscure Magic Items of AD&D 2nd Edition The Book of Artifacts is a supplemental sourcebook to the core rules of the second edition of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasyrole-playing game. This book, published by TSR, Inc. in 1993, details 50 different artifacts, special magic items found within the game at the Dungeon Master’s
SESSION ONE AND MORE DETAILS Previous Article…Campaign Chronicles #4 – Session Zero and Player Characters Here goes another article about our ongoing campaign. I spent some time preparing stuff to run the game. It’s nothing special, but they’ll work as guidelines so I don’t have to waste time during the game trying to elucubrate what
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