We left the Friendly Arm Inn the next morning and headed south for Nashkel. All the talk at the inn of bandits on the road had everyone on edge, but eight hours of travel passed without a single encounter. I urged everyone to press on as night fell, memories of the ambush that took Gorion [...]

Mythical and magical races are a staple of fantasy fiction, both as heroes and enemies, so it only makes sense that fantasy roleplaying games (RPGs) would include race options for players to use in building their characters. Race provides yet another way for player characters (PCs) to be unique. It can function as a distinguishing [...]

Peer reviews for volume 2 of Open Game Table were completed just over a week ago. We ended up with about 90 nominations that received less than the requisite 2 reviews. The OGTv2 editorial board (Jonathan Jacobs, Berin Kinsman, Ben McFarland, Tony Law, and myself) spent last week trying to narrow that down, and we [...]

This is the 26th encounter in my 4E conversion of The Sunless Citadel. I beefed up the goblins and added some twig blights in the study to make combat even worth it.
Encounter 26: Nature’s Lore
Encounter Level 3 (775 XP)
Overview
The PCs traverse the underpass and find themselves at the end of a long corridor facing two [...]

The taproom of the Friendly Arm Inn bustled with life. The smells of warm food reminded me of how hungry I was. I marched toward the bar counter at the rear of the room, catching snippets of conversation as I passed by patrons seated at the tables. There seemed to be plenty of worry about [...]

This is the 25th encounter in my 4E conversion of The Sunless Citadel. Now that I have access to more content through DDI, I’m making a greater effort to replace some of the spell scrolls included in the original treasure with official alchemical formulas or rituals that are either exact translations, or produce similar results.
Encounter [...]