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What Works at the Table-Top, but not in the Manuscript

photo by kgeiger This is the other, dark half of an article I posted earlier about the bond between creative writing and GMing. It’s partly a list of differences between GMing and creative writing and partly a list of things that will work at the table-top, but not in the manuscript (as the title suggests).

d20 Metropolis: Rooftop Crossings

photo by jon So your PCs are on the rooftops, chasing after a random criminal, or perhaps a ripper (my renowned favorite via Cityscape). You hit the dilemma: in real cities, not every rooftop is the same height. But if they’re all different random heights, then the whole thing will grind to a halt the

What Dark Sun Means to a 4E Skeptic

So you’ve all heard it first from the #dnd and #gencon folks on twitter, and now on the official WoTC website. The classic 1990′s Dark Sun is the new 4E campaign setting to be released in 2010. So what does this mean to the future of 4E D&D? As many of you know, I myself