Archive for the 'Dungeons & Dragons' Category

The Saddle Would Melt

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Someone found Slain by Elf after searching for ‘gelatinous cube mount’, and finding the party’s adventure with a Corner of DQQM.
But wait, a gelatinous cube mount? Apart from the obvious issues this raises, wouldn’t it be quicker to walk?

It’s a Trap!

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

Jonathan Drain posts in his blog quite a few nifty trap ideas.
I enjoy thinking up traps, even if I don’t get to implement them, and my creativity was spurred by Drain’s post. I like the CR 1 razor wire across the corridor, but what if the razor wire was also a tripwire for a [...]

Crappy Pun

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

We are in the city sewers, you don’t want to know why. The ranger in our party is looking for tracks, and finds a trail suggesting humanoids passed this way.
‘I’m following their movements,’ he quips.

But We Not Be Twins, Arr

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

Trying to corrupt or in some other way bring about the fall of a paladin ruling the kingdom we’re in, our evil selves find it difficult to come up with a decent plan. The most evil thing we decide we can accomplish is to join the city guard and see what havoc we can [...]

Big Miniature

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

Shuffling the miniatures around the table during an encounter turns the conversation to some of the recent miniatures that have been produced. A new 12″ tall red dragon miniature gets mentioned as something quite impressive. Despite how cool it supposedly looks, there are the obvious convenience problems, not least of which is ‘where [...]

Okay, So THAT Is Bad Luck

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

With a wonderful show of camaraderie, my allies manage to get to my limp and bleeding body with a cure light wounds spell within the round, so I live again! Well, after a fashion, as I am still unconscious. Even with another couple of spells I decide that playing dead is probably the [...]