Archive for August, 2009

Episode 3: The One with the Unplayables

Monday, August 31st, 2009

t’s time for Episode 3 of the City of Doors! We’re gonna take a look at Dark Sun, following Wizards’ of the Coast’s big anouncement at GenCon, cover DM advice for making failure in Skill Challenges interesting, Talk with Elliott about playing those Unplayable Heroes of Baron Seelik, and finally, make the Evil deities of the PHB a little less so by providing a neutral look at how they might be presented in your world to offer interesting campaign options!

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Content Includes:

  • Dark Sun 1: History and overview
  • Adventurer’s Guild 2: The Unplayables
  • The Sage 2: Failure at Skills, Move the story forward!
  • The New Known World 3: Fair and Balanced! Evil doesn’t mean Bad!

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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

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Episode 2: The one with the Evilizing

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Well Gamernation – We made it to Episode 2 (hey – it’s a new record for us!) and today we’ve got some Evilizing!  We’re gonna take a look at Paranoia for their 25th anniversary, cover DM advice for making failure in combat encounters interesting, visit the courtroom of Judge Jorrath (a Surly dwarf that hates bad players and DM’s!) and put a by-the-numbers DM on trial for being boring as hell, and finally, make the deities of the PHB a little more evil than they were before by creating cults that have naughty ideas about their deities plans!
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Content Includes:

  • Paranoia 1: History and overview
  • Judge Jorrath 1: The Mechanical Combat – or Combat-by-numbers
  • The Sage 1: Failure in Combat, Death is only One Option!
  • The New Known World 2: Evil cults of Good Deities

City of Doors Episode 1: The One With Wolverine

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

We’re delving into the History of Faerun, using Dragonmarked Houses of Eberron as villains, Guiding you through Troupe Creation, Discussing Fantastic City types, and Working out the bugs of the Gods of the default D&D4e Setting (The Known World).
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Content Includes:

  • Faerunian Adventure Company 1: History of the Realms
  • Eberron 1: Dragonmarked Houses as Antagonists for your campaign
  • Adventurers’ Guild 1: Troupe Creation – theory and practice of making your RPG group a Group and not a collection of individuals
  • Scenic View 1: Fantastic Cities, using them in your game
  • The New Known World (the Core Fourth Edition World) 1: This Pantheon is Boring, and how to fix it