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Eberron - Karrnathi troops with black Karrnathi banner vs Cyran troops with green Cyran banners.

New Eberron Campaign – Secrets in Eberron?

Wednesday, 2020 June 17Saturday, 2020 June 27 James O'Neill4229Leave a Comment

Once I had originally purchased the DnD Beyond version of the Eberron book I created a character or two and the single character I kept from that small amount of playing is the one that I am using for this campaign. I am going to be playing a House Deneith Dragonmarked Human Male Fighter. This is a smidge significant, because I NEVER play humans. Yes, I am that guy. Oooh, I did play a human female in our first FFG Star Wars game a several years ago though! Here, I was specifically looking to play a soldiery dragonmarked race.

Eberron - Huge battle scene on a lightning rail with a Talenta halfling riding a pterasaur, a 2-weapon wielding Warforged soldier, and a goblin artificer being assaulted by at least 4 darkly clad assailants.

The Fate of Eberron 5E

Saturday, 2020 June 13Monday, 2022 April 11 James O'Neill7214Leave a Comment

In this post I will attempt to provide a way to use Fate Core’s amazing storytelling tools to help drive and maintain the game forward and to increase the depth of storytelling. There are some differences in the way characters are created from the standard setting so I will go over how to pull that all together into one integrated process so that everyone wins, even the DM.

Full Painting for Balder's Gate Descent to Avernus Books Cover

New D&D Campaign – Descent into Avernus

Tuesday, 2019 October 22Tuesday, 2019 October 22 James O'Neill4940Leave a Comment

We finished Dragon Heist/Dungeon of the Mad Mage 6 weeks ago (3 sessions ago because we play every 2 weeks) and we excitedly moved on to Balder’s Gate: Descent to Avernus. Currently, we just finished our second session of Descent into Avernus and our party makeup seems just a little weird to me, but that will be fun… I think! =)

Halaster Blackcloak - Dungeon of the Mad Mage

On to Dungeon of the Mad Mage!!

Monday, 2018 November 26Thursday, 2019 February 21 James O'Neill4524Leave a Comment

Hurriedly, we finishedÂ Dragon Heist on Sunday (Nov 18) by compressing the last part of the adventure so we could finish the adventure and hurry to the reward. We are a more honorable group who worked mostly with the Harpers (4 people) and the Lords Alliance (2 people), I think, so we gave the money back from the heist to the coffers ofÂ Waterdeep at Laerel Silverhand’s request.

Intersectional Character History for Valeriana Estelmer and Dathana Kell (Narrative)

Thursday, 2018 September 20Thursday, 2018 September 20 James O'Neill3592Leave a Comment

This is the will be the text of the Intersectional Character History for my character, Durden Multae (changeling monk), andÂ Kyle’s character,Â Valeriana Estelmer (human wizard) for the Waterdeep: Dragon Heist campaign we will be starting this Sunday (23 Sep 2018).Â

Starting a New D&D Campaign – Waterdeep: Dragon Heist (RPG)

Thursday, 2018 September 20Saturday, 2018 September 22 James O'Neill5120Leave a Comment

Generally, because I tend to write about politics more than naught, I do not write about RPG stuff very often, but I will try to do that a little more to give you all a little wider of a window into that aspect of my life. So, here is the run down of the next campaign we will play and my character.

New Examiner Article – “My faith (part III) – The influence of Dungeons and Dragons”

Monday, 2009 September 28Tuesday, 2016 February 9 James O'Neill1529Leave a Comment

I have posted a new article for the Milwaukee Examiner titled “My faith (part III) – The influence of Dungeons and Dragons. I know some people will roll their eyes at this, but role playing games have been very influential on my spiritual growth. I see some peoples’ hackles being raised at this and having […]