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Yellow Dragon Lair

Game Diary: Expedition to Castle Ravenloft Part 1

Submitted by bookwyrmtx on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 03:15

The Expedition to Castle Ravenloft, by Bruce R. Cordell and James Wyatt, is an adventure that takes the core of the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons module I6 Ravenloft, originally by Tracy and Laura Hickman and transfers it to Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 Edition. Wizards of the Coast released this hardcover in October of 2006, and while it normally sells for $35. I found mine on eBay for $10 with free shipping. Score one for the good guys.

Game Diary – Rise of the Runelords: The Past, and The Players

Submitted by bookwyrmtx on Sun, 01/29/2012 - 19:10

I have been running the Paizo Adventure Path, Rise of the Runelords since May of 2011. I don't plan to do a different Adventure Path when this is completed as I plan on returning to my homebrew world of Alarn, and running other games such as Mutant Future, but the adventure is quite good, and it has been a great experience running it.

Why I Chose Pathfinder Over 4th Edition

Submitted by bookwyrmtx on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 19:43

In 2004 I started playing Dungeons and Dragons 3.5. At the time, I was working for Wizards of the Coast as a member of their Delegate Program, and got the core books for free. I had been out of RPG's for a few years at that point, after playing White Wolf Publishing's Vampire: the Masquerade and Mage: the Ascension through most of the 1990's. My last experience with DnD at that point was Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd Edition, so I missed a lot of the problems that I had heard about with the 3.0 version of the game.

The Fallacy of the One True Game

Submitted by bookwyrmtx on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 04:52

It has been said publicly that the key to Dungeons and Dragons Next (or 5th Edition if you prefer) is to bring the various game systems together, and to once and for all end the “edition wars”.  To create the next "One True Game". Over the nearly 40 years that Dungeons and Dragons has been around we have seen five distinct systems, Basic, Advanced, Advanced 2nd, 3/3.5 and 4.0 (not including third party versions like Hackmaster or Pathfinder).

Introduction, And An Outline Of Sorts

Submitted by bookwyrmtx on Wed, 01/18/2012 - 04:54

Howdy from Texas! My name is Robert Gruver, and I am a writer. Well, I am much more than that... I am a gamer, a bibliophile, a hippie, an atheist, a Red State Democrat, and a stay at home dad. I am married, to my wife Jennifer, for nearing 12 years, who gave birth to our first child two weeks ago! We live with our partner, Sabrina, and a Boston Terrier named Radar! I met Mike Varhola, the owner of this here site here, a year ago, and now I am part of the Skirmisher community as the PDF Operations Manager (a long title, meaning I deal with online sales).

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