Posts Tagged by dnd
| January 18, 2011 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
Last year, my group had two simultaneous D&D 4e games going, one set in the Forgotten Realms and one in Eberron. They both ended, and I don’t see myself ever playing a long-term 4e game again — and I just realized that this isn’t the first time this has happened. A quick aside: I could care less what anyone else plays — as long as you’re having fun, you’re doing it right and more power to you. If you want to have D&D’s babies, rock…
| April 1, 2010 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
I usually save links for Gnome Rodeos, but I’m so swamped with last-mile work on Eureka (Gnome Stew’s upcoming book) that I haven’t had time to do a rodeo lately — so this one gets a quickie article of its own. The University of Michigan (my alma mater — and believe me, the irony isn’t escaping me) recently completed a study of niche hobbyists, including gamers. They looked for common traits among folks who enjoy niche hobbies, and buried among the boring stuff were two…
| October 19, 2009 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
If you play D&D 4e, there’s a decent chance you use WotC’s D&D Insider Character Builder. It automates a lot of things that frankly would otherwise be a pain in the ass, like creating power cards and calculating 99.9% of what’s on your character sheet. For a crunchy, tactical, numbers-heavy game like 4e, it’s a real boon. My whole group relies on it, and anecdotally I’d say most D&D players I talk to use it as well. And while many RPGs wouldn’t really benefit from…
| September 29, 2009 | Posted by Matthew J. Neagley |
Reading a post over on Story Games, I began to get a bit nostalgic for the days of my youth that I spent on Red Box DnD. The subject of the article I was reading was “Did we (indie game enthusiasts) enjoy DnD back then, and can’t now or Did we never enjoy DnD that much and didn’t realize it at the time?” and as someone who enjoys “indie” RPGs (which I define as games which give narrative control to the players and feature light rule sets,…
| May 20, 2009 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
Our first anniversary contest ended last night, and rather than dawdle like lazy little gnomes, we decided to get the lead out and announce the winner the next day — today, in fact. The only catch is that because of the way Gnome Stew is set up, we need a certain amount of pointless, filibuster-style text at the start of this article, or you’ll be able to read the winner’s name on the main page and you’ll never click through to read the whole thing…
| April 30, 2009 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
My group is currently playing a D&D 4th Edition campaign, and I love having lots of accessories in front of me when I play. I have a couple hundred D&D Miniatures from past sets, and they rock — for the price, they simply can’t be beat. And I’ve been using fan-made power cards, printed out on cardstock, ever since we started our campaign. As a GM, I like any play aid that makes things easier for me or my players, or that makes the game…
| March 13, 2009 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
A couple of weeks ago, Wizards of the Coast offered Gnome Stew — and several other RPG blogs — the chance to write an article about the Player’s Handbook 2 in exchange for a pre-release copy of the book. Specifically, an article about the book from a GMing perspective. We jumped at that chance. I’ve been poring over the PHB 2 since early March — reading, taking notes, and asking Gnome Stew readers (here on the Stew, via email, and on Facebook) what they, as…
