Ok, I’ve got some stuff in the works, not for the next full session, but for a couple of side-sessions, if you will. First of all, I’m going to run my friend Mike (playing Shava) through a little solo adventure, since he missed the first session (and thus, his character was not present). [...]

Last night I had my first 4th Edition D&D game, and I’m still jazzed from it. It was fantastic. I did a lot of initial prep work before the game, probably more than I needed to because most of it hasn’t been used yet. The players approached the initial set of encounters [...]

It may be simple, and it may be something that a lot of us have been doing for decades anyway, but I absolutely love quests in 4th Edition. The fact that the DM’s guide gives really good guidelines on how much experience to award for quests at different levels, and the fact that that [...]

I just created my first encounters in 4th Edition D&D today. I actually created a series of connected encounters: two social encounters and a combat encounter that can be avoided entirely if the social encounters go well.
The social encounters were a breeze to create, and were a lot of fun, too. The skill [...]