Troy’s Crock Pot: At Full Gallop at the KQ Carnival

What’s the Crock Pot? Just a simmering bowl of lentils and herbs, with a dash of DMing observations. Don’t be afraid to dip in your ladle and stir, or throw in something from your own spice rack. One of my earliest exposures to fantasy literature was the comic book "Arak: Son of Thunder" by Roy and Dann Thomas. The 50-issue series published by DC Comics told the hero's journey ...

Troy’s Crock Pot: Do you errata?

What’s the Crock Pot? Just a simmering bowl of lentils and herbs, with a dash of DMing observations. Don’t be afraid to dip in your ladle and stir, or throw in something from your own spice rack. Screen scene I finally picked up the Fourth Edition DM’s screen. (I was waiting for that perfect confluence of events: store coupon, item in stock and cash on hand). You know the screen ...

Troy’s Crock Pot: Reading List Checkup

What’s the Crock Pot? Just a simmering bowl of lentils and herbs, with a dash of DMing observations. Don’t be afraid to dip in your ladle and stir, or throw in something from your own spice rack. Just Paladin Around Some time ago, Martin asked me and my fellow members of the Stew Crew to offer up our recent reading lists. And one item on my short list of “to ...

Troy’s Crock Pot: Make My Monsters Modern

What’s the Crock Pot? Just a simmering bowl of lentils and herbs, with a dash of DMing observations. Don’t be afraid to dip in your ladle and stir, or throw in something from your own spice rack. Matt Neagley brings up an excellent point. When talking horror games, d20 Modern might work just as well - if not better - than D&D. The Shadow Chasers campaign (and its d20 ...

Troy’s Crock Pot: Putting 4E in its Place

What’s the Crock Pot? Just a simmering bowl of lentils and herbs, with a dash of DMing observations. Don’t be afraid to dip in your ladle and stir, or throw in something from your own spice rack. D&D’s creators made a bold decision with the Fourth Edition: They scrubbed clean the setting lore that too often was an obstacle to new players learning the game. The complex cosmology, the maps ...

Troy’s Crock Pot: At the end of my Use Rope

What’s the Crock Pot? Just a simmering bowl of lentils and herbs, with a dash of DMing observations. Don’t be afraid to dip in your ladle and stir, or throw in something from your own spice rack. Tinker, tinker, soldier Why? As a DM, I don't tinker with the rules much.  Oh, as a writer, I've dabbled plenty — articles in Dragon magazine and in a couple of pdf supplements. But ...

Troy’s Crock Pot: Moldy Dungeon II, the Wrath of Plaster

What’s the Crock Pot? Just a simmering bowl of lentils and herbs, with a dash of DMing observations. Don’t be afraid to dip in your ladle and stir, or throw in something from your own spice rack. I posted earlier about purchasing some of Hirst Arts’ CastleMolds with the intent of making a modular dungeon for my gaming sessions. Well, several jugs of plaster mixture and a lot of green ...

Troy’s Crock Pot: In the Land of the Little People

He's a regular Becky HomeEc-y I like doing crafts. You're more likely to see me in a Michael's, a Hobby Lobby or even the paint section at Wal-Mart as you are at a game store. I guess I'm always looking for creative outlets. And painting the 25mm metal miniatures used in roleplaying games is just one way I express myself. Land of the Lilliputians  In fact, the most interesting aspect of ...

Troy’s Crock Pot: Realms as a freebie

What’s the Crock Pot? Just a simmering bowl of lentils and herbs, with a dash of DMing observations. Don’t be afraid to dip in your ladle and stir, or throw in something from your own spice rack. Beaten to the punch Before the last of my Remaking the Realms posts hit the Stew Pot, those crafty Wizards of the Coast dropped a freebie excerpt on us. We now have the "official" ...

Troy’s Crock Pot: Gnome Reading Library

What’s the Crock Pot? Just a simmering bowl of lentils and herbs, with a dash of DMing observations. Don’t be afraid to dip in your ladle and stir, or throw in something from your own spice rack. Hanging out with merry men My summer reading has been pretty light. But I picked up one gem that hadn’t been checked out at our local library for two years: “The Merry Adventures ...

Troy’s Crock Pot: Goodbye Gleemax, we hardly got to know each other through you

What’s the Crock Pot? Just a simmering bowl of lentils and herbs, with a dash of DMing observations. Don’t be afraid to dip in your ladle and stir, or throw in something from your own spice rack. Gaming brains don't belong in jars Wizards of the Coast will pull the plug on the gaming social networking site Gleemax in September. The site was difficult to navigate — a crippling factor for a ...

Troy’s Crock Pot: Roll ‘em if you got ‘em

What's the Crock Pot? Just a simmering bowl of lentils and herbs, with a dash of DMing observations. Don't be afraid to dip in your ladle and stir, or throw in something from your own spice rack. Characters with class One of the new online features for Fourth Edition, once Wizards of the Coast gets the DDI rolling, is supposed to be a character creator. But in addition to generating stats ...

Troy’s Crock Pot: The Moldy Dungeon

What's the Crock Pot? Just a simmering bowl of lentils and herbs, with a dash of DMing observations. Don't be afraid to dip in your ladle and stir, or throw in something from your own spice rack. Gotta Know When to Fold 'Em Card stock buildings, erasable battlemaps, D&D brand Dungeon Tiles, homemade encounter areas drawn with crayon. Those have been my tools in trade ever since I landed on the ...

Troy’s Crock Pot: A Little Thing Called the TPK

What's the Crock Pot? Just a simmering bowl of lentils and herbs, with a dash of DMing observations. Don't be afraid to dip in your ladle and stir, or throw in something from your own spice rack. Death-proofed PCs Everything I’d heard about Fourth Edition D&D was how hard it was to kill first-level characters — they’re resilient, they’re loaded with offensive capabilities and they’ve got a batch of hit points. ...

Troy’s Crock Pot: Too much of a good thing

What's the Crock Pot? Just a simmering bowl of lentils and herbs, with a dash of DMing observations. Don't be afraid to dip in your ladle and stir, or throw in something from your own spice rack. Gnomes shouldn’t drink and drive The D&D Third Edition Arms and Equipment Guide is chock full of DMing goodies. My favorite is the list of ales and wines. From Dragonbite bitter ...

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