Old-School Multiclasses in 4E - Are They Viable
AD&D had a rather different multiclassing system than 3.x and 4E. You picked two (or three) classes and leveled up in a gestalt of those two, splitting XP between both. 4E works a lot differently,...
View ArticleOn Cursed Items In 4E
Save Versus Death just joined the RPG Bloggers' network, and one of his articles is about cursed items in 4E. That reminded me that I should get working on my own article on the subject.See, cursed...
View ArticleGo To Hell
Nono, don't go. Go To Hell is the reason I didn't update last weekend. You dig through the earth, gathering coins to afford the entry fee to Hell. Weird, but an entertaining game. You also have to...
View ArticleSkill Challenges With Organic Time Limits in 4E
So I've been thinking about skill challenges again. One tweak I've come up with is to add in an organic time limit, by way of two steps:Calculate how many rounds a normal skill challenge would take at...
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Converting White Plume Mountain, Interlude: Blackrazor and Wave stats from WOTC
The main treasure in White Plume Mountain is the three artifacts - Wave, Whelm and Blackrazor. Way back when, Whelm got stats in Open Grave (since it belongs to the vampire Ctenmiir). Later on, Wave...
View ArticleAgainst The Solo Grind
...or What We Learn From Zelda: A Link to the Past.Well-designed solo monsters for D&D 4E flip out and gain nastier attacks when they are bloodied. Even some regular enemies do that - my favorite...
View ArticleMonster Powers Triggering Off Other Monsters' Actions
Once upon a time, in a play-by-post game, we fought a huge executioner with an axe, and his "daughter" (a nasty little skeleton). When the nasty skeleton finally died, the executioner went nuts and...
View ArticleGreater and Lesser Gods of PoLand
So I figured I'd jot down my thoughts about the power levels of the gods of D&D 4E. So far, a bunch have got stats, but the great majority hasn't, so it's worth figuring out which would be "lesser"...
View ArticleCSI: Greyhawk
In the files marked "Stuff I'd like to run sometimes", there's one entitled "CSI: Greyhawk". The actual town isn't important (Sharn might be better if I knew diddly about Eberron), but investigative...
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Village of Hommlet 4E: The Frogs
Welcome, dear reader, to my Village of Hommlet 4E conversion read-through. Back in 2009, WOTC sent it as a gift to everyone who were signed up as an RPGA DM. This is something you can do without...
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Village of Hommlet 4E: The Bandits
After the PC:s foil the furious frogs, they get to battle the brutal bandits. It looks a little railroady so far, but once we get into the Moathouse proper, the PC:s will get more choices. If we assume...
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Village of Hommlet 4E: The Cell Block
If the PC:s, after defeating the bandits, find the secret door in the leader's room and decide to go down there (reaching the closet to the north of room 14) instead of taking the stairs (to room 11)...
View ArticleVillage of Hommlet: The titular Village
As I mentioned last time, the PC:s will have a pair of rescued prisoners on their hands after rampaging through the cell block. Time to return them to Hommlet!4E Hommlet lacks a thorough description of...
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Village of Hommlet 4E: The Crypt Keepers
Our heroes (probably) return from a night of wenching, drinking and sleeping in Hommlet, to search the cell block for secret passages (since there are no obvious ones). If they follow the blood trail...
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Village of Hommlet 4E: The Mysterious Pool
So there's a pool in a room. And when you get near it, a giant crayfish bursts out and tries to pinch you to death. Looking at its stats, it would do a half-decent job at it. Lareth and his troops...
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Village of Hommlet 4E: The Gnoll Den
The gnoll encounter is the first in a pair of encounters with a very similar set-up: "One leader-dude and a pack of identical mooks". In this case, a gnoll Demonic Scourge (Brute) leading gnoll Claw...
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Village of Hommlet 4E: The Bugbear Recruits
As I've mentioned, this could be the next encounter after you clean out the cell block. But probably not.Unlike the gnolls, the bugbears have been treated well by Lareth. If the PC:s trample in here,...
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Village of Hommlet 4E: The New Master
That 15 square corridor leading up to the New Master's Lair? That's bland and uninteresting.That said, this is the ultimate encounter of the Moathouse. Lareth the Beautiful, the leader of the cult,...
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Village of Hommlet 4E: Aftermath - Onward To The Temple of Elemental Evil?
So Lareth the Beautiful is defeated, the cultists in the Moathouse scattered. Hommlet is safe again. Or is it?Probably not. The cultists in the Moathouse serve the Temple of Elemental Evil, a classic...
View ArticleVillage of Hommlet 4E: The Trading Post
Better late than never? Part of why this is late is that I haven't actually ran the Trading Post encounter, so I can't tell you how it plays in practice. What I can do is rant about how it can be...
View ArticleAll my #RPGaday stuff in one post.
So #RPGaday hackjobs are a thing now. Or maybe it's just that one person. Whatever. I'm lazy and will post everything at once too.Apologies to Christopher Glew for bogarting his list formatting.1....
View ArticleWeekly updates? What's that?
Oh hey, where did the last four years go? I sure hope nobody was waiting with bated breath for updates.Can I blame getting a new job in 2011, moving and losing track of my gaming group, leading to a...
View Article2014 in review
2014 marked my triumphant return to gaming. Or at least my return. I got a new job in 2011, moved away from both my D&D groups and was suddenly not as conveniently close to Stockholm as I used to...
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Conventions I've been to
What better place to keep a record of conventions I've been to than a rarely-updated blog?Convention mugs as of 2017.2005: DanCon IV, Stockholms Spelkonvent2006: DanCon V, Stockholms Spelkonvent2007:...
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