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DM Minion 4E is a software programme that I have been using for about 4 months. DM Minion does everything that a dungeon master could hope for when running adventures for D&D 4E. It is one of the most useful software packages I have ever used and rivals dungeons and dragons insider. D&D Insider is wonderful and I use most of its applications from the character builder to the monster builder, but it doesn't do everything I need. I've been using: paper, pencil, dice, adventure module books, DM screen and reference books to run my games in the past; it's a juggling act. Now don't get to excited it's not free, I had to pay $8 New Zealand dollars for the android version. The windows and mac versions appear to be free. Goat Head Software has developed DM Minion for: iphone, ipad, android, windows

If you wanted a skill challenge involving the characters travelling down an underground magma river, you are in the right place. I ran this multi-level skill challenge for my players recently over two sessions. It was the only way forward to stop a devil by the name of Daryl Van Horn from draining fairies and pixies of their magic. Personally I'd change or chop out anything that the players find boring. I made two small origami paper boats and put the players miniature in the boats and place everything on a battle map of a magma river. That turned out to be very helpful for the players and me. If you want to know how to make the boats, check out the youtube video below,

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I also allowed utility and attack powers to be used by players, and any other equipment

How well does the D&D 4e engine work with other role-play genres? There has been a lot of talk from wizards of the coast that 4e makes running a game easy. I got the chance to test 4e in a sci-fi world, during Christmas. For some time my youngest brother asked me to run a War-hammer 40,000 role-play adventure, so he got his wish. Now the War-hammer 40k universe already has a rule system for role-playing so I purchased a copy of Dark Heresy. After reading the Dark Heresy rules, I realized what a mistake I had made; it was a heavily coded FATE system in reality and it would take too long to learn. If I wanted to play FATE why bother with Dark Heresy, so I looked at the FATE system, but there was to much work to complete in a short period of time. In the end I just thought “I’ll

Why is the traditional hero not played in Dungeons and Dragons very often? As a dungeon master have you asked the question, “Why don’t my players role-play a traditional hero rather than the anti-hero”? As a player how often have you role-played a traditional hero, who sacrifices themselves for the greater good? This is a question that both player and dungeon master need to fully understand. I’ll make it clear now that I think that anti-hero’s are more suitable for roleplaying games, like Dungeons and Dragons. I’m not saying that all players will not choose to play the traditional heroes, but it’s rare in my opinion. I was talking with some D&D friends the other day and it was pretty clear, the traditional hero was falling out of favour.

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Dungeons and Dragons FATE RPG

Once upon a time in a far away land there was a band of heroes…

I’ve been planning to write this blog for a while, particularly with the development of Dungeons and Dragons Next. Just to warn you, this blog is not actually about the new D&D. The actual development of D&D Next looks promising, with a long period of open play-testing ahead. A simple core rule system with modular rules that can be added or excluded are all very smart goals to keep D&D tabletop games competing with video games. I would like to point out that a role play game called FATE, not to be confused with the video game, has been around for some time. It does much of what D&D Next is trying to achieve. I’ve talked about this system before in a past blog, but will

I built this skill challenge for my War of the Titans Campaign as a follow up to a battle with a Storm Titan. Ranis the Storm Titan has taken his wraith out on the small village of Delwin. Ranis has grown arrogant and has command the township of Delwin to worship him with their blood. He’s also imposed fishing restrictions on the coastal town, which the townsfolk have ignored. The real reason for the Titan’s rage is a war that has been brewing with the other Titan’s. The Titan’s of the sky region have declared war on the earth bound Titan’s. As a way of declaring territorial rights the mortals of the world are being forced to worship the Titan’s and not the God’s.

Skill Challenge 

Read the following paragraph to the players.

The

I wrote this skill challenge for my players in the D&D adventure “The Lord of the White Fields”. The 'Ghoul Country' skill challenge was just boring to run over and over again. I hope you as a DM find it useful.



Skill Challenge

Read the following paragraph slowly and ask the players what they want to do.

The streets of Hampstead are teaming with hordes of flesh eating ghouls, but as you cross the town a dark shadow falls upon you. The bellow from a monstrous winged beast echoes through the fog filled ruins, chilling you to the bone. You can hear a grizzly voice above your heads bark commands. “Find them, kill them. I want the flesh-bags. This world will be mine!”  

This skill challenge involves the PCs travelling through the township of Hampstead and avoiding

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John leaves a secret passage in the last encounter room so I've had this lead to an underground cavern. In the underground cavern is another pyramid, much like the great pyramid of Giza. I spent a few hours reading about it on the web and used a diagram of it. The underground pyramid is stolen from the ideas