The Virtual Table is not just a tool to let someone a few towns away join an adventure over the Internt. I can picture this as a major enhancement to the gameing experience. Picture this...

Five players sit around the table. Each with either a tablet running the Droid operating system or an Ipad. The DM is at the head of the table with his or her laptop. Each palyer is connected to the Internet through the house Wifi. Each player has access to the Virtual Table. The DM has a projector attached to the laptop and is projecting the Virtual Table on the wall. Everyone has a large view of the Map allowing them to focus on their own play on their individual device.

Technically challanged individuals without a device (Old School) can still take advantage of the Virtual Map through the DM. Paper,

Began a new 4e campain yesterday using the Scales of War path.

Characters were generated with the D&D Insider Character Generator. I am a Linux user so I'm a little disappointed that Wizards decided to use Microsoft Silverlight to power the on-line application. Unfortunately it does not run with the Linux equivalent called Moonlight. Fortunately I have a shell of Windows XP that I can run through VirtualBox.

I have to admit that I like the way the characters are more balanced out. This was a 1st level campain and the Wizard didn't blow over with a single sneeze. In the older releases of D&D (1e, 2e, 3e & 3.5e) the weaker players (Wizard & rouge) would usually end up dead or unconcious after the early fights. The new balanced out characters can actually take a few hits and dish it out

ELDRITCH DOWNS ADVENTURING COMPANY
4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons at-home Campaign
12 March 2011

Player Characters:
    Pelius, Half-Elven Bard
    Mel, female Half-Orc Barbarian
    Exelstiarre, male Human Wizard

Synopsis:
    This is the first time in several months we've gotten a chance to play.  We started the session inside an Aztec-style temple/ziggurat dedicated to some sort of sun diety.  The characters have been led here by an NPC named Allister Kreebs, a sort of fat, balding, bookish sort of individual that had hired the party to help him beat a different adventuring company to a sacred relic.  He had gotten the party lost, so they decided to investigate this ziggurat instead of going to where they'd intended

In our continuing search for something fun and new we came across an interesting concept in a magazine. It said play in a different time. It gave ideas on what to change and how to do it. If I could remember that particular edition number of Dragon, I believe, I would pass it on because it had some good info. I’ll pass on to you what we did and how it worked out for my group, and, as always, there are serious issues that only ever seem to plague us.

Kings of the Stone Age

Our DM decided that it would be interesting if we played a Stone Age game. It meant first of all, that we had to adjust our weapons and inventory. We ditched everything that had metal in it, or at least made sure that they were made of more primitive materials. Those that were adjusted like this usually received

Session Start

Combat continues from where we left off.

Burshj conjured forth a spirit of Athas near the spiders and Sirad and Tani to give them some extra protection. As both spiders got back on their feet, one used his body to reflect some more of the suns rays, pushing Sirad back a bit. Tani, however, was unaffected by the spider's attempt to blind him. The other spider bit Sirad, poisoning him.

Akmenos waited for a bit, while Myzaid attempted to slide one spider into the other in an attempt to knock them prone again. Unfortunately, she was unsuccessful. At this point, Akmenos moved forward into the action, yelling inspirational words to Sirad strengthening both his resolve and his attack.

As Sirad finished off the spider closed to him, under Akmenos' guidance, Tik-Krik moved

Session Start

The session started right where session 1 left off, at the end of combat. The group quickly riffled through their ambushers' belongings, finding mostly clubs, but also a sack of 400 silver coins, each stamped with the sigil of a roaring lion, upon the bearded man's body, as well as an amulet with the same roaring lion symbol.

Akmenos immediately recognized the symbol, and a brief look towards Myzaid confirmed that she also knows its origin, Urik. They quickly came to the conclusion that the bearded man must have been one of Hamanu's Templars. Tani remembered stories from his gladiator days about the Urikite army, and how it contains elite strike teams made up of Half-Giants and Halflings. Adding up all this information, the PCs concluded that the Lion God, as Hamanu is also

The Unspoken Tower is a delve for (1-8) 1st level adventurers. The link opens a new window to the full adventure posted on the Foggy Bog Manor group page and as more adventures are written up for the campaign they too will be added.

The adventure has roughly 7,693 words. It consists of 7 combat encounters, 3 non-combat skill challenge encounters, and 1 minor skill challenge in a combat encounter.

All the monsters and treasures can be found in the online compendium but the appendix also has a list of monsters and treasures with their published sources.

New adventures will be added to the Campaign Zenobaal wiki page out of the Foggy Bog Manor group.

The Cast

The characters already know each other from two previous excursions (Sand Raiders story in the back of the DSCS, and a small story I made up myself), but I'll present them here so you, the reader, also know the cast.

Akmenos     Tiefling Warlord
Burshj      Dwarf Shaman
Myzaid      Tiefling Psion
Sirad       Half-Giant Warden
Tani        Mul Fighter
Tik-Krik    Thri-kreen Monk

Session Start

The first session was, as it should be, introductory.

The last week had been unusually hot, even when judged by Athasian standards. Toothcutters' activity had also seen a slight decline, thanks to the PCs eliminating a key cell led by an Id Fiend, but had by no means disappeared. The Elven band of thieves were still the biggest players in the Warrens of Tyr, even though word had reached Tani

This weekend Seattle Geekly, Zaxy.com, some of us here at Wizards and MANY MANY others held the 1st ever:

EPIC GAME DAY

The title has to be huge, it's EPIC. It was a celebration of just all around geekery. There were board games, role playing games, video games, and even a Magic The Gathering Draft! This was all held at the AFK Tavern in Everett, WA. There was a ton of great games running. Bruce Cordell, Chris Simms, Logan Bonner, and Greg Bilsland were among a few of the GMs running adventures. Many of which were custom made for this event!

Now I've been working on my own long term Gamma World adventure, but being part of the crew that helped start Epic Game Day I wanted to contribute something myself. Thus began work on my Christmas themed adventure.

The feedback I got was awesome.