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Special #1: [Caught in the Middle: D&D Adventure] Part 1

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

I recently came across the adventure I had written up to be played online as a 4th Edition D&D Campaign, but which never actually panned out. Reading through the content I had written up, I realized that it was really pretty good and I didn’t want to lose it – so rather than keep it hidden I decided to share it with all of my readers :)

I’ll be posting segments of the adventure over the next couple of weeks, and I’ll try to include as much extra stuff as possible to make it more interesting (maps, etc). We’ll see how it goes… I guess this will sort of be my first ‘Special’ series.

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Have Dice Will Roll

Friday, March 6th, 2009

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I miss playing D&D.

I used to play with a group of people, not long after I graduated from High School. We would meet and play for a couple of hours, maybe once or twice a month. It was great fun, since our DM was very good, and enjoyed pulling strange by awesome things on the party.

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Impressive!

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Broke
The last couple of days have shown an amazing number of visitors to my site – way more people than I’ve seen before. However, you people are using up all my bandwidth, very, very quickly! I’ve spent almost $1 this week alone – which is way up from the typical $0.10/week that I was paying before.
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D&D Adventure Update: Background and Synopsis

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Well, I haven’t had much time to work on it (or anything, really)… work has been superchaoticness, and I’ve been working on finalizing Louisa’s Portfolio Site.  But, despite all that, I spent a little bit of time today getting my Background and Synopsis written up for the Adventure.  Now, this is a first, rough draft… I’m having trouble figuring out the exact formula to use for the Background and the Synopsis… I’m more anxious to get to the meat of the adventure, so I don’t really know how to write it out.  I have a ton more than this written up, I just haven’t reached a point where I would like to share it, just yet.  Anyway, here’s the Background and the Synopsis to show where I’m planning to go with it.  As always, comments, suggestions and support are always appreciated.

Background

The town of Heartwood is a quiet, peaceful community, tucked between the Serpent River, the Blue River, and the Thunderhill Mountains.  Although the town is in an ideal spot for trade – sitting at the hub of two trade routes in conjunction with the two rivers – it is relatively far enough away from the major cities and nations that it is able to avoid many of violent wars and disputes over the years.  The people of Heartwood have been very lucky to live in such peace.  However, their peace may be short-lived.  Whispered rumors have been spreading around town, over the last few months, regarding sinister goings on in the abandoned Thundercrown Castle – a fortified stronghold constructed near the top of the Thunderhill Mountains, overlooking the town and the well-traveled mountain pass since time forgotten.  During the reassuring light of day, the townsfolk scoff at such tales, once the sun goes down, the people tend to stay behind locked doors.

(Note: If you’re intending to play in my PbP Campaign, I wouldn’t read the rest… there’s still 3 slots open!)

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Update, Part 2

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Well, taking my last post into consideration, I decided to do some major housekeeping around here.

I removed all posts pertaining to the TARGEngine, and removed several other posts that were no longer relevant to anything, or were just me whining about whatever.  All told, I ended up disabling 45 posts.  I also spent a great deal of time reorganizing my categories.  I think there’s still a lot of work left to do to make them really work the way I would like, but it’s a step in the right direction.

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Magics.

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

I finished reading The Last Guardian last night – I flew through the book in a matter of hours, possibly because I happen to be a fan of Jeff Grubb… and it might be because of another arguably insane magic user he wrote about…

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Again with the thinking and the planning…

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

I occasionally have these bursts of inspiration that seem to come out of nowhere, give me this charged feeling that makes me think: “This is a great idea, and I can do this!”, and then set me down this path of planning and brainstorming something that typically ends up being abandoned.  Zounds! was such an inspiration, and while it seems (so far) that it’s going to be a worthwhile endeavor – at least I hope so – I’m also very afraid that it’s going to be yet another flop.  TARGEngine, although I still really want to work on it, just doesn’t seem to be feasable anymore… there’s too many things that are ‘wrong’ that I simply don’t have the knowledge to fix… That being said, I’ve just been hit with the inspiration stick, yet again, and I wanted to get some of these thoughts out here so that I don’t lose them.  At the very least, this might help to illuminate my thought processes…

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