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The Alpha Omega DM Screen Homebrew
Next month my Alpha Omega campaign begins. I am excited to try a new system and world and have studied the rule book carefully. I believe I understand the key elements of the game well enough to run a session without referring to the book too much. However, there are several charts that will see [...]
Plastic Sleeves for Board Games from Mayday Games and a 15% Discount!
Games like Agricola, Cataan, Dominion and especially Wings of War require a lot of card handling. The problem is that cards are paper and become stained, fuzzy or otherwise damaged with regular handling. Effectively marking the cards in games that require secret hands and draws. Sadly, the more popular the game, the faster the cards [...]
Review: Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition – Monster Manual 2
My fellow D&D friends, have I got the book for you! As Trask is out on some much needed R&R, I thought I would pop in and take the opportunity to tell you about the new Monster Manual 2. This book is a definitely a required purchase for any 4E DMs out there. Honestly, for [...]
GAMA Trade Show 2009: Crystal Caste
Crystal Caste is a long-standing vendor of dice, but they had a couple of new items that I thought worthy of a post outside my other GTS 2009 coverage. First is the “Cyboskull.” It holds dice and looks cool, which is more than enough for me. ;-) In the realm of dice, I saw a [...]
Curled Maps that Will Not Lay Flat? I Have an Elegant Solution
An ongoing issue for tabletop war gamers and RPG players are maps that will not lay flat. Long-term storage in a tube or rolled up in a car trunk permanently creates hills, valleys and curling corners in soft maps. Most groups solve the issue with some well placed books and the occasional “Mountain Dew” can. [...]
WOTC Dungeon Tile Sets Index
Icosahedrophilia put together a complete index of all of Wizards of the Coast’s “Dungeon Tile” sets. He breaks down each set by size, quantity in the set and what images are on both sides. Here is a sample: Worth a look for the tile-using DMs out there. Trask, The Last Tyromancer
Gamer Tools Review: The ZÜCA Wheeled Bag
The ZÜCA is quite possibly the world’s best gamer bag for convention goers. Trask has been asking me to do a review for a while. He even featured it in this year’s ‘10 Christmas Gift Ideas for a Role-Playing Gamer‘ due to all my man-love speech. So, without further ado, I will begin… Trask and [...]
Printing and Binding Game PDF Files
I am sure that most of my readers own at least one game in PDF format. I own several myself. But I hate reading a PDF. I cannot sit in front of my computer for two hours reading a game, no matter how good. To that end, I tried printing out my games on a [...]
Create your own D&D 4E Power Cards
4E Power Cards. Some like them, some hate them. I didn’t like them at first, but now I am starting to. I wanted to share my method with everyone on how I made mine. They are quick, easy, and look really good. When beginning my Power Card quest, I remembered an old program called CCG [...]