D&D Encounters | Online Dungeon Master

A little “meh” on D&D for the moment

I haven’t been blogging much recently, which is in part because I’ve been spending a lot of my time on Chaos & Alchemy (currently working on setting up a Kickstarter to run in the next month or so). My audience here on Online Dungeon Master is interested in D&D, not necessarily my new game company,
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Drow on drow violence: D&D Encounters Council of Spiders week 3

Isn’t it sad when the party members turn on one another? Not when they’re a bunch of backstabbing drow! You may remember last week, when some svirfneblin basically wiped out the party (two of them escaped with their lives, barely). Well, this week, through the magic of “That’s the way the plot works,” the party
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My first (near) TPK – D&D Encounters Council of Spiders Week 2

I’m not normally a killer DM, nor do I pull a lot of punches on my players. But in this week’s session of D&D Encounters: Council of Spiders, I essentially wiped out my party. The reason: The dice wanted them dead. This week’s session was pretty straightforward. The party (all drow, and pretty much evil
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Between GenCon and TactiCon 2012

Just a quick update since I haven’t written in a while. GenCon was an awesome experience. The highlight was getting to meet so many of my friends from the online D&D world, mainly from Twitter (d20Monkey, Jennisodes, LawOfTheGeek, deadorcs, FELTit, GeekyLyndsay, d20Blonde, Squach, TheIdDM, SlyFlourish… the list goes on and on). A lot of these
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D&D Encounters Web of the Spider Queen – Week 12

Previous session: Week 11 This would be my last week running D&D Encounters this summer, since I’ll be at GenCon next week during the grand finale. I went out in style, though, with EIGHT players at my table (I had six, and then two showed up during the first round of combat). Tonight’s session was
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D&D Encounters Web of the Spider Queen – Week 11

Previous session: Week 10 / Next session: Week 12 As is usual these days, I had seven PCs at my table for D&D Encounters. The party was moving through the drow city of Zadziferryn in search of their friend Khara Sulwood and the broken Pendant of Ashaba. They found themselves in the drow torture theater, where two torturers
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D&D Encounters Web of the Spider Queen – Week 10

Previous session: Week 7-8 / Next session: Week 11 I was out of town last week for work and for my brother’s wedding (I actually spent Wednesday evening going to the circus in a small town in Ohio), so I don’t have a week 9 recap for you. However, I was told that the party took the direct
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D&D Encounters Web of the Spider Queen – Weeks 7 and 8

Previous session: Week 6 / Next session: Week 10 Since our Friendly Local Game Store closed early on Wednesday, July 4, for Independence Day, we did not have D&D Encounters that night. Instead, we ran two sessions back to back on Wednesday, July 11. Yeah, this was a little bit nuts. In retrospect, it would have
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D&D Encounters Web of the Spider Queen – Week 6

Previous Week: Week Four / Next Week: Week 7-8 I was out of town last week, so a substitute DM had the pleasure of running my table through an exciting encounter with Valan Jaelre and friends. The party was given the chance to take an extended rest after that fight (and somehow allowed to go shopping in
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D&D Encounters Web of the Spider Queen – Week 4

Previous Week: Week Three / Following Week: Week Six The same gang as last week (minus one, whose regular spot at the other 5:00 PM table had opened back up) gathered Wednesday evening for some more drow-fighting fun. It’s nice to have regulars! A goblin hunter named Snipe A goblin scout named Squintch A goblin slayer
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