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Campaign Design: Geography

Post author By Wimwick (Neil Ellis)
Post date April 3, 2009
3 Comments on Campaign Design: Geography

All the world is a stage and you get to design it. Creating the geography for your gaming world is more than just placing mountains, streams and forest. Every decision you make during this stage of the game will effect future gaming sessions and expansions to your campaign setting. The geographic elements you work into your game world form the natural boundaries that are used to define the kingdoms and territories of your world. It’s important to get it right from the start.

Tags 4e, campaign design, D&D, Dungeon Master Resource, Dungeon Master Resources, Dungeon's Master, Dungeon's Master Resources, Dungeons and Dragons, Dungeon’s Master, Eberron, geography, resource, RPG, Wizards of the Coast

Month in Review

Month in Review: March 2009

Post author By Ameron (Derek Myers)
Post date April 1, 2009

March was a good month for D&D and a great month for Dungeon’s Master. We hit our two month milestone and are gaining a strong and loyal readership. Our thanks to everyone who visits regularly and comments often. In March we published 26 new articles on a wide variety of topics. Here are the highlights just in case you missed anything.

Tags 4e, D&D, Dungeon's Master, Dungeons and Dragons, familiars, Humour, Module, Month in Review, PHB2, RPG, Skill Challenge, wizard familiar

Editorial

Worldwide D&D Game Day 2009

Post author By Ameron (Derek Myers)
Post date March 22, 2009
4 Comments on Worldwide D&D Game Day 2009

gameday2009 I spent Worldwide D&D Game Day 2009 at 401 Games, a game store in downtown Toronto meeting new gamers and playing the adventure One Night in Weeping Briar. This was an adventure for five, 11th level characters and was designed to appeal to experienced gamers as well as people trying out D&D for the very first time. Overall, I think it was a great success, but I do have some feedback about Game Day that I’d like to share based on my experience.

Tags 4e, D&D, Dungeon's Master, Dungeons and Dragons, One Night in Weeping Briar, PHB2, RPG, Wizards of the Coast, Worldwide Game Day 2009

Class Discussions

Necromancer: Epic Tier

It’s Friday the 13th and we thought what better way to celebrate than with some Necromancer Epic Tier powers. The Necromancer Epic Tier powers follow up on our previous posts containing Necromancer powers for the Heroic Tier and Paragon Path.

With Wizards of the Coast releasing Arcane Powers later this year it’s only a matter of time before we have the official Necromancer Paragon Path and a slew of powers to support it. In the meantime, if you’re playing a high level Dungeon Delve and would like to play a Necromancer at the Epic Tier we hope that these powers will add some flavour to your game.

Tags 4e, D&D, D&D 4e, Dungeon's Master, Dungeons and Dragons, Necromancer, necromancer epic tier, necromancer heric tier, necromancer paragon path, player, Player Resources, resource, RPG, Wizard, Wizards of the Coast

Class Discussions

What Class Are You? – Wimwick

Post author By Wimwick (Neil Ellis)
Post date March 12, 2009
5 Comments on What Class Are You? – Wimwick

Wizards of the Coast wants to know what class you are. It’s to help determine the classes that will be released in PHB3. Ok, maybe not but it’s a fun little quiz.

Me I’m a Rogue, but that’s no suprise. I knew I was a Rogue when I introduced myself to you, so I can’t say I’m shocked at the outcome..

The quiz is fun, but it isn’t rocket science to figure out what class you’ll end up with. Check it out.

D&D Home Page – What Class Are You? – Build A Character – D&D Compendium

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Campaign Design: Historical and Fictional References

Post author By Wimwick (Neil Ellis)
Post date February 28, 2009
6 Comments on Campaign Design: Historical and Fictional References

In the last article we dealt with the Next Steps in campaign design, today we’ll discuss various campaign settings, historical periods, novels and talk about the themes that exist within the fantasy genre. This is my favourite part of design as it’s where you get to really dream about the different possibilities. Make sure you have your notebook handy and any of the Resources that you’ve collected to help you along the way. You’re bound to have more than a few flash insights at moments that you aren’t actively working on your campaign world and you’ll want to jot them down for future use.

Tags 4e, a song of ice and fire, Beowulf, campaign design, D&D, DM, DM Resources, dungeon master, Dungeon Master Resource, Dungeon's Master, Dungeon's Master Resources, Dungeons and Dragons, george rr mart, Glen cook, JRR Tolkien, resource, RPG, the black company, Wizards of the Coast

Class Discussions

Necromancer Paragon Path

black-mage-colour With the launch of Open Grave, Wizards of the Coast have begun to release powers and rituals geared towards Necromancers. They have also announced that the Arcane Powers source book will have a Necromancer Paragon Path. While I’m glad that this is upcoming, I still believe they provided a disservice by not having any specialists in the first PHB.

Building on the Necromancer: Heroic Tier we published a few weeks ago, we now present the Necromancer: Paragon Path, an option for you to play until the official version is released. If you are interested in the Necromancer at the Epic Tier, visit our article about that.

We see the Necromancer as an individual who fights for good but is often mistaken as evil. Just like the early practitioners of medicine in our own world, who dug up graves to study anatomy. A practice that was deemed unethical and morally wrong at the time. The Necromancer is an individual who walks the dividing line of ethical behaviour.

Tags 4e, D&D, DM, dungeon master, Dungeon Master Resources, Dungeon's Master Resources, Dungeons and Dragons, Dungeon’s Master, Necromancer, PC, player, resource, RPG, undead, Wizard, Wizards of the Coast, wotc

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Campaign Design: Next Steps

Post author By Wimwick (Neil Ellis)
Post date February 20, 2009
1 Comment on Campaign Design: Next Steps

You have decided to design your own Campaign World and you have the necessary resources in place. Now you’re wondering what are the next steps? It’s time to consider how you’re going to approach game design. There are a number of different ways to begin working on your campaign and there are still a few questions you need to consider before you begin. We’ll take a look at several of them.

Tags 4e, campaign design, D&D, DM, DM Resources, dragons, dungeon master, Dungeon Master Resource, Dungeon's Master Resources, Dungeons and Dragons, Dungeon’s Master, resource, RPG

Book Reviews

Review: Adventurer’s Vault

Post author By Wimwick (Neil Ellis)
Post date February 12, 2009
2 Comments on Review: Adventurer’s Vault

Adventurer's Vault The Adventurer’s Vault has been out for some time now. However, that isn’t going to stop me from giving it a solid review.

The first thing you need to realize about the Adventurer’s Vault is that it is a much needed addition. By including magic items into the PHB, Wizards of the Coast handicapped themselves with the amount of space they could dedicate to each subject. A few area’s got the short end of the stick, one of them was the amount of magic items available for players to drool about.

Tags 4e, Adventurers vault, Book Reviews, D&D, Dungeons and Dragons, RPG

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Speeding Up Your Game

My gaming group meets once a week for four hours. Due to the longer and longer distances people have to travel, the game has to end promptly to allow people to get home at a reasonable time. Playing longer than our four hour allotment just isn’t an option. So we have to make the best use of the time we have. Here are some of the tips and tricks that we’ve come up with that have really made a big difference.

Tags 4e, D&D, DM, Dungeon Master Resources, Dungeons and Dragons, Resources, RPG