Repost – D&D Epics: Drums of the Dead

Drums of the Dead is my 4th D&D Adventurers’ League “Epic” adventure.  For the uninitiated, at conventions or special events at stores D&D AL will allow you to run “Epics.”  An Epic is one adventure being run by 8+ tables simultaneously and the tables influence each other in a variety of ways.  The story of…

Cibola Burn

Cibola Burn is my least favorite Expanse book and the hardest to get through.  There I said it.  This can be a frustrating story where things just keep getting worse and worse and worse until the characters get lucky and limp away from a shit show at the fuck factory. The situation in Cibola Burn…

Vecna: Eve of Ruin

This one has been a long time coming.  For years 5e products have made obscure references to Vecna, the biggest baddest lich in Dungeons & Dragons canon.  Those references got a shot in the arm when Stranger Things season 4 in 2022 named its antagonist after Vecna.  This was accompanied by The Vecna Dossier, a…

Alien: Covenant

I was shocked that I liked Alien: Covenant a good deal more than Prometheus. For a brief recap: I despised Prometheus when I saw it in the theater when it came out.  I read Roger Ebert’s 4 star review.  4 stars, nothing you’d change?  There were a lot of comparisons to Alien and I was…