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Mike Mearl’s D&D 4e Elemental Evil Campaign

May 16, 2008 – 7:10 am

Recently Mike Mearls invited people to follow his 1st ‘for fun’ D&D 4e campaign.
It’s very loosely based on Gary’s Temple of Elemental Evil, it gives a very good feel of what 4e will be about and it’s all played in one hour sessions.
I don’t think reading this will change anyone’s idea on 4e (playing it [...]

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Help him Rebrand Himself, Win a 4e Book

May 15, 2008 – 12:06 pm

My buddy Bob Younce of The DMs Blog (at dndreview.com) is trying to rebrand his blog to better reflect what it’s going to be about.
He seeks help from the community and he’s offering a prize. I’d call him a copycat, if I wasn’t one myself with the 10 word adventure contest (Results out tonight!).
He [...]

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Of Judging and Other Stuff

May 9, 2008 – 8:35 am

No planned posts today as I’ll be spending the free time before tonight’s D&D game continuing the judging of the 10 word adventure contest.
I got some news from Paizo and we may get more prizes as the request got sent to the marketing department (no pressure here guys!). Keep your fingers crossed.
I added [...]

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Chatty on 4e: Schooled by the Old Combat School.

May 6, 2008 – 8:55 am

As I mentioned in my Retro-Stupid post, I feel that 4e is knowingly taking a step toward embracing the aspect of the early versions of the game that were fun while doing away with some of their unfun legacy (fun and unfun being completely subjective concepts; I think it is at the heart of many [...]

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Adventure Prep: To Analyze and to Fluff

April 23, 2008 – 9:03 am

As I write this I realize that it’s a very clinical assessment and analysis of my current campaign. I’ll post it to show you how I go at it, but it might be a bit heavier than my usual fare.
As mentioned in my last few Adventure Prep or Campaign log posts, I’ve stopped [...]

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