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Last weekend I attended Draconis, a small Gaming Con in Montreal. I had the occasion to DM 2 playtest sessions of Kobold Love (one in English and one in French).
I’ll post the playtest Report over at the Chatty Studios site later this week. Suffice it to say that it was very successful, the adventure shows great potential.
While the adventure is far from being finished (scenes 2 to 5 need work), you can still piece up a playable D&D 4e draft from the following links:
See you later this week.
Credits: Wizards of the Coast (Image)
From a Gtalk discussion earlier with Dave the Game about a game he played in over the weekend.
Dave:
But I think (the DM) also hit on a new rule of DMing in a later part of the adventure
We arrived in a new town, snuck through it, etc. Basically (this) gave us a new set of missions, one of which was to get explosives out of a warehouse.
Of course, that’s the mission we went after right away.
I think the rule could be that players are happier if an adventure involves explosives.
Chatty DM:
The Rule of C4
Dave:
Yes!
103 words.
Last week I was prepping for a one shot D&D 4e game.
I got this really good idea and it started eating my brain as good runaway ideas are wont to do.
I sat down to write a blog post about it when my nascent buisness sense chimed in.
You see, after Gen Con, the guys at Critical Hits and I agreed to send one submission each to a RPG publisher (namely Dragon or Dungeon Magazines) before the end of September.
So instead of making a blog post with the idea, I re-edited it and made it into a submission proposal. I sent this proposal to Goodman Games.
While waiting for the answer I tried my concept in our one shot game.
It worked beyond my wildest expectations!
Early last week I got an email from Harley Stroh who works at Goodman, saying that my idea was cool enough to make it into an adventure anthology, provided Goodman Games did a second one (There’s one planned for December).
This morning he chimed back in saying the project was approved!
So come Gen Con 2009, I will likely hold in my hands a hardcover RPG product with my name in the writing credits!
Joy!
I owe a lot of this to you all dear readers. I’m just bummed I probably won’t be able to share my idea with you before then.
Have a great weekend, I’m spending mine playing D&D with my buddies tomorrow night and playtesting 2 sessions of Kobold Love Saturday.
So I was talking with friends on Twitter and someone mentioned the Monster Manual Gnome and his Pet Weasel named Francis.
Many people remember that it was kicked out of the scene by a Tiefling Warlock in the D&D 4e promotional TV ads.
That gave me an Idea I do not currently have the time to pursue.
What if I wrote a D&D adventure for Dungeon Magazine called ‘Where is Francis?’ made especially for kids between 6 and 10?
There would be fights against animated objects and plants (I want to limit violence against sentient beings), a Jealous “Villain” starved for friends and an overexcited Gnome seeking adventurers to help him recover his minion.
I pitched this to Wizards of the Coast yesterday. You think they will go for it? Would you be curious to read such an adventure?
Any hints and ideas I should think about to make it fun for both children and adults playing with them? I’m surely going to focus on what my son did and write several DM hints on letting go of the rules in favour of the Story.
The RPG Blog Carnival’s idea started with Johnathan of The Core Mechanic (Although Geek’s Dream Girl used to do it too):
Then Donny the DM took up the torch
This month I offered to take up the torch and reinforce a nascent RPG blogging meme that has cropped up in the last few days.
Greywulf started it with all with ‘Let’s Play Super Dungeons and Dragons‘.
Stargazer ran with the idea with his ‘Fantasy Superheroes‘ post
So why not continue and talk about all things Super Hero this month? Not just Fantasy Superheroes (Although I adore the concept), but everything that can be used from that genre into RPGs.
It could be about your favorite Super Hero RPG, about cool characters and art concepts, it could be doing a cross-genre experiment and injecting some Pulp in your Superhero juice or some Mutants in your Sorcery.
The rules are simple, you post about it and you leave a comment right after on this post. My Commentluv plugin should pick it up, if not, I’ll edit the comment myself to show the link.
I’ll participate too, with a much needed new entry in my trope series.
Up up and away!
Credits: Pam’s Twins, just because.
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