Category Archives: D&D4e

A Return to Role VTT and Streaming Settings

With Role VTT bringing back cameras, and making some progress on their integration with Owlbear Rodeo, for maps and tokens, I have made a return to use the platform in my own gaming.  There is now a subscription for the … Continue reading

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An Emergent Beginning and a Triumphant Finale for D&D 4e

 And so, after more than two years and fifty sessions of play, my Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition game has come to an end. What started as a planned short series of sessions to see how this edition played, it … Continue reading

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The Skill Challenge

I thought I’d set out some more thoughts on how I have approached the Skill Challenges to round off the Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition campaign. Skill Challenges, or linked Clocks as the Forged cool kids like to say, are … Continue reading

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The Threads are Woven – A last campfire before the Great Battle

We are reaching the second season conclusion of our D&D 4th Edition campaign, and it will be a tumultuous finale! The allies and foes that have been encountered over two real-time years of roleplay are now marshelling onto the battlefield for … Continue reading

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Sturm und Drang

 The adventures of our Nentir Vale heroes, ‘Sturm und Drang’, continue for a while into 2023. One of my players has very kindly commissioned some art, depicting the group in an anime style. Sturm und Drang The original image is … Continue reading

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Con4eR 3 – More D&D 4th Edition play and on Foundry too!

 My enjoyment of D&D 4th Edition continues undimmed. I was glad to setup another Con4eR online space this weekend, so that people could get together and get some more actual play of this terrific version of the game. Warhorn continues … Continue reading

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Foundry VTT and 4e Adventures

Fun times, now that I have retirement time. I am paying a bit more for my Foundry VTT upkeep. In addition to Forge hosting, I am paying the developer of the Livekit AV integration via his Patreon. This gives me … Continue reading

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Emergent Campaigns

 There has been some discussion in the podverse about the term ‘campaign’ in a roleplay game context. What is a campaign? How up front do your goals for a campaign need to be? How planned in does the framework need … Continue reading

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Looking Back and Forward to 2022

This is a gaming review and some thoughts on what 2022 might bring for me. For context, I retire at the end of March 2022, so I will have much more time for everything, includng the gaming hobby. We head … Continue reading

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A Maturing D&D 4e Campaign in Nentir Vale

I’m reflecting on my Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition campaign, that is now 25 sessions in and been running for most of this year. It has been a lot of absorbing fun, and perhaps one of my most successful long … Continue reading

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