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Tag: Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition

Blue and grey dice set on a D&D character sheet.

Game Day: Let Me Tell You About My Battle Master

December 10, 2017 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Game Day, Games

Odothar Bronzearm is my human battlemaster, my favorite fighter since my first-ever Dungeons & Dragons character “Battle Axe”, and the culmination of a years-long quest for a tactical warrior. Though my favorite class is wizard, I’ve played my share of fighters over the[…]

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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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A dragon king stands on a stone ruin.

Dark Sun Creature Catalog

October 22, 2010 Ken Newquist Game Reviews, Games, Role-Playing Game Reviews, Role-Playing Games

The sun-blasted, magic-scarred campaign setting of Dark Sun is unlike any other published for Dungeons & Dragons. It inverts or eliminates many of the core concepts of D&D: arcane power is rare, psionic abilities are rampant; Halflings are cannibals, dwarves[…]

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A female warrior with a crude sword and shield stands against an orange-yellow desert background.

Can you survive arcane wastelands of the Dark Sun Campaign Setting?

October 21, 2010 Ken Newquist Game Reviews, Games, Role-Playing Game Reviews, Role-Playing Games

The Dark Sun has risen again on the parched, magically devastated world of Athas, bringing with it the new rules and mindset of Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition. First introduced in the early 1990s during D&D 2nd Edition, Dark Sun[…]

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Star Wars miniatures make their way up a tile-based staircase.

Harrowing Halls: Taking Dungeon Tiles to the 3rd Dimension

August 31, 2010 Ken Newquist Game Reviews, Games, Role-Playing Game Reviews, Role-Playing Games

Harrowing Halls is a Dungeon Tiles set for Dungeons & Dragons that takes the long-running line to new heights. That’s because they’re not just dungeon tiles … they’re three dimensional dungeon tiles that can be used to build a staircase,[…]

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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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Explore Your Draconic Side with PHB Races: Dragonborn

April 5, 2010 Ken Newquist Game Reviews, Games, Role-Playing Game Reviews, Role-Playing Games

For decades Dungeons & Dragons players have wanted the ability to play as a dragon. Any DM worth his screen knew that it was a bad idea to give a player that kind of power. Dragons were monsters after all.[…]

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Embrace Nature with D&D 4E’s Primal Power

January 26, 2010 Ken Newquist Game Reviews, Games, Role-Playing Game Reviews, Role-Playing Games

In the revision of Dungeons and Dragons that is Wizards of the Coast’s 4th Edition, Power Sources have been created as the explanation for why the heroes of the game are so, well, heroic. As an example, the quintessential Wizards[…]

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Elemental Chaos awaits in D&D 4E’s The Plane Below

January 25, 2010 Ken Newquist Game Reviews, Games, Role-Playing Game Reviews, Role-Playing Games

When I ran my 4E D&D playtest campaign, I decided to make it larger than life. That meant going planer. The churning unpredictability of the planes, the potential for exotic locations, the alienness of its inhabitants calls to my imagination.[…]

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Return to print with the Dragon Magazine Annual

January 12, 2010 Ken Newquist Game Reviews, Games, Role-Playing Game Reviews

I’m one of those who loves the printed word. PDFs are handy, but when it comes right down serious reading, I want my books and magazines culled from dead trees.  As such, I was happy to see a review copy[…]

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Nuketown is a speculative fiction website that's been published continuously since 1996.

It's publishing focus is articles, reviews and editorials about science fiction, fantasy, and horror with heroic or libertarian overtones. It covers a variety of topics within the speculative fiction genre, including games, movies, soundtracks, books, and websites.

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