Heroes of Baldur’s Gate was a huge surprise to me when it came out. Maybe I was just out of the loop. This adventure came out in 2019 from one of the writers of Dragon Age: Origins. It draws heavily from the Baldur’s Gate video games. Heroes takes place at the same time roughly a…
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The D&D Version of The Iron Bull
I’m dipping my toes here into Character Creation Speculation. Every week the Total Party Thrill Podcast creates a new character trying to hit a new archetype. Sometimes they make character from fiction like Spiderman, sometimes they make a character who fights different, an archer who fights in Melee, or exploit a specific rule like how…
Planescape: Well of the Worlds, To Baator and Back
One thing I want to do is adapt some adventures from other campaign settings. This way if my home game has a night where the DM can’t make it the group can see some of the other campaign settings outside the Forgotten Realms. I decided I would find some low level adventures from Eberron, Dark…
The Origin of PCs
Please forgive me stealing the title of this from Order of the Stick. I was giving some more thought to PCs. I’ve been a player in hardcover adventure playing group for over a year now. I seem to have a bad habit of playing the PC I should have played in the last adventure. Or…
Acquisitions Incorporated
I have been an Acquisitions Incorporated fan since the beginning. I was into Penny Arcade and PVP for about 5 years at the time 4th Edition D&D got announced. Then they bring on these guys to play D&D and then they release the recording. And it was funny! And interesting! They did three podcasts before…