Last time I told you all about two of the ways to handle overland travel in D&D (and other fantasy games).  Today we’re going to jump headfirst into even more techniques.   Again, think of these as different knobs and dials you can adjust in order to make overland travel as easy or as complicated as your campaign needs it to be. Read the rest of this entry »

Welcome, weary internet travelers! The kind overlords at Ideology of Madness have given me this new column as a place to spew my incoherent babbling about gaming.  Some would say I already do that enough over at The Podge Cast, but some brain droppings are better consumed in a visual medium such as this than through the audio ambrosia that is podcasting.  In other words, this is where I can talk about that stuff that doesn’t lend itself to roundtable discussion.

As a bit of background, I am currently running a D&D 4e game with my group.  A lot of this column is going to be about exploring the concepts and themes of whatever I’m running or playing at the time.  As someone who has spent the last few years mainly running and playing intense player-driven, plot-focused, intrigue-laden games, going back to my gaming roots with D&D has been a nice change.  No matter what edition you enjoy, I think we can all agree that there’s no feeling like slicing off a dragon’s nuts and then stealing his hoard while the halfling juggles those man-marbles. Read the rest of this entry »