Equipment: Hammer’s Big Green Bag of Holding

Several month ago, there was a one day even on RPGBloggers.net where various people statted up a piece of equipment, a faction or a character based on themselves. Unfortunately, I never got round to participating due to looming University deadlines. This should go some way to rectifying that.

Hammer’s Big Green Bag of Holding

Crafted from a [...]

Why Old School Is Bad For RPGs…and Good For Gamers

There has been a furore of late within the RPG Blogging community regarding “Old School” gaming.
The definition of “old school” remains vague, and everyone seems to have their own variation – be it homebrewed systems based on the Blue Box D&D, original World of Darkness, legacy GURPS or even classic Cthulhu. I’m not going to [...]

Dungeons & Dragons Releases For 2009

Back in October, I took a look at the next six months or so of releases from Wizards of the Coast, and posted some tentative opinions about them. Four months later, and with a good chunk of the 2009 catalogue announced, it looks like it’s time to revisit the upcoming releases. This post runs until [...]

D&DI: Digital Revolution or Damp Squib?

The advert of the ‘Digital Age’ has been heralded by various soothsayers of the tech and media industries as the greatest revolution in printing since the invention of moveable type in the 15th century.
They have a point: typesetting is no longer a time consuming process, mistakes are easier to correct, distribution of the product is [...]

Quick Campaign Ideas

A friend asked me for some ideas for a campaign last week, so here are a few quick ideas to inspire.
Any feedback is welcome.

The Nativity According to D&D
This is a one/two session idea inspired by Uncle Bear’s Cthulhu Christmas. Written for D&D 4e Forgotten Realms, but could be easily adapted to 3.x. I’ve used Kelemvor [...]