Editor-in-Chief | May 2, 2011
Welcome to the Defenders Roundtable: a comparison and analysis of the ways that 4E Defenders fulfill their roles and do the job of keeping their comrades safe in the heat of battle! In the first installment of the Defenders Roundtable: Breaking Down Defenses, the basic class abilities of Defenders were examined, comparing hit points, healing [...]
Editor-in-Chief | April 28, 2011
As I’m sure that I’ve mentioned in a few other blogs, I run two D&D 4E campaigns for my friends – a Dark Sun Campaign in Michigan, and a Forgotten Realms Campaign just across the border in Ohio. One of the nifty insights I’ve gotten from having two campaigns is a greater sense of what [...]
Editor-in-Chief | April 22, 2011
Greedo shot first at Han Solo in the Cantina; The Force is really bacteria called midichlorians; and the Core 4E Fighter is now a Weaponmaster.
n what is looking more and more like a Lucas-esque “re-envisioning” of their previous work, the Designers at Wizards of the Coast have done some fairly sweeping changes to two Core [...]
Editor-in-Chief | September 20, 2010
“It matters not how we complete our task… only that it’s done.” ~ Altair (Assassin’s Creed, 2007)
Last Friday, Wizards of the Coast released an Essentials Build for the Assassin Class. Called an Executioner, it differs in many ways from the Night Stalker and Bleak Disciple Builds introduced in Dragon Magazine. It most closely resembles the [...]
Editor-in-Chief | September 1, 2010
“Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long, fifty-four inch wide GORILLA?” ~ Frederick (Young Frankenstein, 1974)
Necromancers have long been part of heroic fantasy. Magicians which have congress with dead spirits, ghosts, and other undead have appeared in many fantasy novels, such as R.E. Howard’s Conan [...]
