Month: August 2010

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Editorial

GenCon Awaits

After 9 grueling hours in the car with Ameron we’ve arrived in Indy. Our badges are in hand and the slaying of monsters awaits. Over the course of the best four days in gaming Ameron and I will have periodic updates about the events and sights that make up GenCon. Over the week our plan is to play some LFR games, check out the Dark Sun Arena’s and of course the Open Championship. We’ve teamed up with half of the C Team, last years winners. Last night we me up, handed out the character assignments and worked out our some strategy. Keep your swords or wands crossed for us.

GenCon promises to be a week of great fun, chance encounters and little sleep. We’ll post as many updates and images about the events as we’re able. For now I need to get what sleep I can, the life of an adventurer is uncertain and you never know when you’ll get your next extended rest.

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Editorial

D&D Camp and the Tomb of Horrors

During the final week of D&D camp I had a group of great kids. They knew the game well and I had DMed for all of them the week before. They were all friends from school who had been playing together for a number of years. They were the very best group of D&D kids you could find. There was the lifer, the child of two professional actors, the athletic competitive kid, the brain, and the kid who was in it just to make his friends laugh. They had all been to D&D camp in previous years and on the first day of this week (after a “D&D weekend” at the cottage) expressed an interested in playing through a campaign that was a little more involved than the typical “find sword, fight dragon” type game. Enter the Tomb of Horrors. I recently received my copy of the level 9 adventure in the mail and so proposed the Tomb to them by reading Gary Gygax’s original introduction and from there the tone was set. The week of play that followed was a brutal fight against oblivion which 13 adventurers would not survive.

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Humour Skill Challenges

Skill Challenge: Road Trip to GenCon

Tomorrow Wimwick and I undertake the 9-hour drive from Toronto to Indianapolis for GenCon. Knowing that many of our readers will be in exactly the same predicament we decided to put together a GenCon Road Trip skill challenge to mark the occasion.

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You pack up the car for the long, arduous road trip to GenCon. The question isn’t if you’re going to get there but when you’re going to get there. The more successes you accumulate in the skill challenge will determine how quick and painless the journey is. No matter what obstacles you might endure along the way, it’s all worth it to get to GenCon.

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Month in Review

Month in Review: July 2010

In July we learned about D&D Camp, covered our participation in D&D Encounters Dark Sun, looked at adventuring parties lacking a role player and wrote about GenCon. If you missed any of the great articles we ran in July this is your chance to get caught up. For all of our loyal readers who visited throughout July, we express out thanks. And to new readers just discovering us, we welcome you and hope you keep coming back every day.

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