Introduction With the recent licensing of some of Wizards of the Coast?s settings recently, such as Dragonlance and Ravenloft, there has been talk amongst fans of licensing out some of the other older settings as well, such as the Spelljammer setting. Despite there being an interest in having such a license, the fan base is …
Category Archive: D&D
Nov
24
Shackles of My Own Making
My handwriting is horrible. Whenever folks need a visual representation of the Klingon language, they ask me to write something. If you go by the stereotype, I should be a rich doctor. And yet, it is what it is. Just kind of sloppy and hard to read. My character sheets were equally hard to read. …
Oct
23
Dragonhelm’s Gamma World Game Day Report
While I have known about Gamma World for many years, I only got to play it for the first time today at the Gamma World Game Day. Basically, you go to your local participating game store, sit in on a game, and get to experience what Gamma World is all about. I took my 13-year-old …
Sep
22
Dragonhelm’s Essentials D&D Encounters Report
For the first time tonight, I got to play Encounters. This season, the adventure is none other than the classic Keep on the Borderlands. I had never played it before, so I was excited to do it. My friend Curtis and I were it for our table, so we were going to play two characters …
Sep
18
The Mark of a Successful Game
How do you know when your game is successful? How do you know that you have one of those games where the players are really into the story and action? How do you know that your game isn’t just good, but great? These are hard questions, to be sure, ones that don’t always have clear-cut …
Jul
28
Games of the Imagination
Earlier tonight, I interviewed Tracy Hickman for a future episode of the Dragonlance Canticle podcast. During the conversation, we talked about gaming, and an interesting topic came up. The basic gist is that role-playing games have become very good at being simulations in nature, but have gotten further away from narrative storytelling and creativity. Is …
Mar
22
Deva Heritage: Elan
The exact origins of elan devas are unknown. Some say that a special enclave of deva, known as the Cullers, seeks out deva with psionic potential. Those who pass the screening process undergo a ritual that causes them to be reborn in the next lifetime with psionic powers. Physical Description: Elan devas tend to have …
