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Game Group

Next Game: Dunno

This upcoming Friday is the 4th of July. Do we want to meet some other time this weekend (Saturday or Sunday), or does it just not match our schedules? Let me know if any time is particularly good or bad and we’ll see if there’s sometime that works for everyone.

UPDATE: I spoke with Kev last night. He’s working unavailable Friday, works 1-10 on Saturday, and 11-7 on Sunday. It doesn’t look like we’ll manage to get our normal game up and running, though Jennifer and I are discussing backup options if there’s interest and availability.

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Game Group

Next Game: Friday June 27th

Please let us know if you’ll have any problem with making it this week. We left off just after your ambush of the Ogre camp, the rescue the gnomes, and the interrogation of the fallen Ogre. We’ll resume next with with the characters at 6th level. See you then!

UPDATE: As Kevin mentioned below, he’s not going to be able to make it when we start, but he encouraged us to begin without him. Unless you hear otherwise, we’ll play as usual tonight.

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FATE Games

Cool Initiative Idea

Bruce Brown had a great idea on the FATE list for initiative.

The theory goes that GM calls out the adjectives on the ladder in descending order. Players can then use any skill that matches or exceeds that at any point during the round.

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Books DnD Roleplaying

4e Month One: Links n Stuff organized

Game Resources
Chatty’s Tool Roundup, and Dragon Avenue’s Resource Page.
A 4e Form fillable auto-calculating character sheet (.zip)
Supplement tables, Reference screen (flash)

Setting and Adventure Ideas
Chris Chinn’s Five blades of Bahamut, Quest seeds, Airships
P3’s short series (a quick post each for 1-10, 11-20, and 21-30) extensible with lots of options.

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Roleplaying

Gnome Stew

I don’t know if I mentioned it, but I’m currently writing articles for Gnome Stew. There are a lot of great authors, most of whom came from the Treasure Tables blog and forum communities. If you’re foolish, you can read only my posts this way.

If you have a comment that’d be a good part of the conversation, head on over and join in. If you’d rather chew me out, here’s a good place to do it. 😉

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Roleplaying

Lots of finds, heavy on 4e

4e related:
4e random encounter maker
4e pointbuy calculator
4e character sheet (pdf, for printing)
4e Form fillable auto-calculating character sheet (.zip)

Bankuei’s 4e playaids: Requests and some solutions.

Keep on the Shadowfell review, very positive. (No spoilers.)
The Chatty DM plays 4e: initial thoughts, Into the Shadowhaunt (spoilers!)
Martin reviews 4e books in detail. An excellent review.

From Doyce: Watching the 4.0 DnD release, and The DnD 4.0 game with the seven-year old got even more awesome.

4e FAQ (from Reading Dragon mailing list):

My response from Customer Service is that if a monster has two or more basic attacks, you can select which one you want to use in and opportuity attack situation.

Standing from prone does not generate opportunity attacks (OA). gleemax thread

Here is Customer Services ruling on slowed shifting. It exposes a new way to deal with rules precedence: “can’t trumps can.” As suggested in the basic mechanics of the game on page 11, specific trumps general, though when specific and specific conflict (as in this situation), we rule that can’t trumps can. Thus if you’re slowed, you’re limited to two squares of movement, regardless of the type of movement, unless the power/ability specifically says otherwise.

Now more than ever– is it time to buy Firey dragon counters print them on cardstock?

Dragon Avenue crusades against 4e naysayers.

Roundup from Elonian Nomad

RPG Digest roundup

Rob Donohuge preps 4e: 1, 2, 3.

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Game Group

Next Game: Friday June 20th

Life got in the way of playing on the 13th– or the fear of Friday the 13th was just too strong. Kev and Dad aren’t available on Saturday night, so let’s play on Friday! As ever, let us know if you’ll have any problem making it Friday.

Session canceled for Friday the 13th. (Old info below)
Spooky! I suspect beads will be in heavy use given that we’ll be playing on Friday the 13th.

It doesn’t look like people need the posts up here on the blog– does anyone really want these reminder posts? Do you hop over to the calendar, or are we just used to Fridays. If we do more Saturday games, will that make a difference?

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Roleplaying

A few recent finds

Pens and Swords; fantasy fiction writing. The most recent posts are about World Building and how it varies as a Fantasy author vs DM.

The DMs Blog: The d20 Stops Here.

No Myth summarized

Cults of Tiamat and Bahamut

The Cull: A best of RPG theory discussion blog

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Game Group

Next Game: Friday May 30th

We’re looking at playing Friday night, May 30th, unless you let us know otherwise. Be there or be square!

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Game Group

Next Game: Saturday May 24th

We’re looking at Saturday May 24th at 6:30 pm. It’s a 3 day weekend, so double check your plans. Hopefully, everything will line up and we’ll get to enjoy a game again.