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Tales of the City Within: a 5X5 Sandbox experiment.

June 23, 2009 – 1:02 pm

Summer is upon us and that usually means that our bi-monthly D&D become less formal.  Attendance tends to fluctuate wildly and our play sessions are usually shorter. In past years, we’ve used the summer period to test out new games or new PCs.
This year, most of my players have manifested an interest to keep playing [...]

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Adventure Prep: The City Adventure

May 6, 2009 – 3:40 pm

For my next D&D session (which is on Friday next week), I’ve decided to go for a city-based adventure.
We’ve played 3 sessions into our new Primal/Within campaign and all those were focused on the Dungeon part of the setting and very little on the city (except to interact with Quest giving NPCs). I think that [...]

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The Primal/Within Campaign: The Dungeon as a NPC

April 8, 2009 – 3:52 pm

As someone told me earlier today, back to our original programming!
With my last mini-campaign done and completed, I’m getting ready to start playing my new homebrewed campaign centered around the Primal Dungeon and The City Within.
One of the key challenges that I’ve found with campaigns with an overarching story arc is that I often lose [...]

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Adventure Prep: Hacking the Written Word

March 14, 2009 – 8:26 pm

Some time ago, I used to blog about how I prepared my bi-monthly games and posted them before my actual game sessions.  It was a writing challenge because I was trying to write something significant for my readers while limiting spoilers for my players (most of whom are readers of this here blog).
I stopped [...]

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Chatty’s Mailbox: Writing an Adventure

January 13, 2009 – 9:13 pm

As some of you may know, I just finished writing a draft for a D&D 4e adventure to be possibly published by Goodman Games (if the editor likes it).  I’ve been posting vague updates on Twitter and Facebook  and such for the last few weeks and some have been following it, being very supportive.
So with [...]

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