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Tag: Dungeons and Dragons 3rd Edition

A close up view of the spines of numerous role-playing game books.

#RPGaDay2018 – Describe how your play has evolved

August 13, 2018 Ken Newquist Games, Projects, Role-Playing Games, RPG-a-Day 2018

As a group we’ve become more tolerant of non-standard character concepts, especially when it comes to the World of Greyhawk. When our Dungeons & Dragons campaign started 20 years ago, we were diehard devotees of Greyhawk canon (there is a reason, after all,[…]

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A close up view of the spines of numerous role-playing game books.

#RPGaDay2018 – Wildest character concept?

August 12, 2018 Ken Newquist Games, Projects, Role-Playing Games, RPG-a-Day 2018

There was once a Blackrazor redshirt named Zilanderan. A strange man, Zilanderan claimed to be part of a larger, near-infinite multiverse of alternate realities. He’d excitedly talk about how this multiverse interacted with this, the Prime Material Plane, boring his[…]

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A close up view of the spines of numerous role-playing game books.

#RPGaDay 2018 – How has a game surprised you?

August 9, 2018 Ken Newquist Games, Projects, Role-Playing Games, RPG-a-Day 2018

I played the best convention game of my life at GenCon 2000. It was a multi-round RPGA event called “Barbarian Lives”. It used the newly-released Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition rules to tell a soap opera-inspired tale of romance, heartbreak,[…]

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A close up view of the spines of numerous role-playing game books.

#RPGaDay2018 – What gives an RPG staying power?

August 3, 2018 Ken Newquist Games, Projects, Role-Playing Games, RPG-a-Day 2018

Imagination + good rules + group buy-in. Those are the elements that fueled our longest running games, even if the campaigns the RPGs were powering jumped from ruleset to ruleset. Our Blackrazor Guild campaign, now in its second decade, has[…]

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A close up view of the spines of numerous role-playing game books.

#RPGaDay2018 – What do you look for in an RPG?

August 2, 2018 Ken Newquist Games, Projects, Role-Playing Games, RPG-a-Day 2018

My answer today is very different from my answer 20 years ago. There was a time when I loved a good, crunchy RPG, with a ton of splat books and optional rules (in short, Dungeons & Dragons 3.x). Implicit in[…]

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Plastic miniatures of the frog-like monsters known as slaadi stand on a battlemap. In the background can be seen several figures representing player characters.

Nuke(m)Con 2016

February 12, 2017 Ken Newquist Blog, Events, Games, Role-Playing Games

Nuke(m)Con. It’s my gaming group’s homegrown convention which was first held in 2004 as an alternative to going to GenCon. It’s schedule was never formally defined, but for a while we had an every-other-year schedule going with conventions in 2006,[…]

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Finding the Path back to Fantasy RPGs

August 31, 2011 Ken Newquist Games, Role-Playing Games

In hindsight, we played Dungeons & Dragons for too long. Our World of Greyhawk campaign lasted 12 years, included dozens of characters, hundreds of plots, and forays into Castle Greyhawk, the Temple of Elemental Evil and our own homegrown creations.[…]

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Black and grey dice with red numbers sit on top of role-playing game source books.

MEPACon Fall 2010 Wrap-up

November 17, 2010 Ken Newquist Blog, Events, Games, Role-Playing Games

Another MEPACon has come and gone, taking with it two weeks of frantic game preparation and 12 hours of actual play. The convention was held in Clarks Summit, near Scranton Pa. on November 12-14 and looked to have the typical[…]

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Looking for Dark Sun web sites

April 29, 2010 Ken Newquist Games, Role-Playing Games

Dark Sun, the grim, post-apocalyptic fantasy setting for Dungeons & Dragons is re-launching this summer for D&D 4E. In honor of that, I’m writing my next “Summon WebScryer” column for Knights of the Dinner Table about Dark Sun … but[…]

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Two adventurers battle a reptilian monster that is breathing lightning at them.

Game Day: Return to the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth

March 5, 2010 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Game Day, Games, Role-Playing Games

After many months away from the game, my group is returning to Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition for an old school dungeon crawl through the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth using the D&D 3.5 version released in 2007. I’ve got mixed[…]

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