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Over the course of many Dungeons and Dragons campaigns, I've often, but not always, used a calendar to track the progress of the campaign. It can seem like a lot of work with little payoff, but that doesn't have to be the case. If done correctly, you can keep the workload to a fair balance, and the payoffs can be great. So, here are five reasons you should be using a calendar to track your campaign Session Notes  A campaign calendar can be a great place to track session notes. By simply tagging the notes to the month and day of the event, you know what the heroes have been up to and when things happened. For mundane tasks, like fast travel, I just mark the start and end dates of the travel, where they left from and where they arrived. Back in previous editions when characters trained to gain a new level and would level up at different experience point values, I used the calendar to track who was training and who was free and sometimes could squeeze in a short adventure or...

Last year around this time I started seeing ads for a D&D themed advent calendar, with all kinds of goodies - dice, minis, etc. After looking over the promotional image, several things started bothering me. One, it wasn't an official Wizards of the Coast product, but they were using images of Player's Handbook cover. A different version had the image of the original D&D movie. I couldn't image a company paying all those licensing fees for different cover images. Also, some of the included items didn't look like they would fit inside the box sizes shown, like a fire giant mini, or a wooden treasure chest. In short it was all a scam. But strangely, they did deliver product to those who paid, but none of the products shown on the promotion. If you want to see a video of what was included, here's the reveal for day 5. (Note there was a legitimate advent calendar from Adventure Dice in 2020, but it was all dice and the packaging was unimpressive to say the least ...

Not much to say, except so many things related to Dragonlance and Dungeons and Dragons are going on right now, this would be the worst time NOT to be writing about it. Not sure what my frequency of posting will be, but I'm shooting for at least three a month (hopefully 4-5), not including this little reintro post, and I'll try to cover all the same stuff, including a few new topics, like painting and terrain building.  Anyway, I hope you come along for the ride, it's going to be a long, strange, and fun trip!

This sheet is great for a simple game where you've already decided to drop skills and feats out of the game (certainly doable in 5e). There is a small corner with a few helpful hints, but the white text on light purple background might be hard to read when printed. I was recently asked by a friend if I knew of any versions of the Character Sheet for D&D 5e geared toward kids. Seems he's teaching his children the game, and I applaud him for creating the next generation of D&D gamers. I've also been thinking of starting to teach my son, and maybe a few other kids the game, so I began looking around for alternate versions of the classic 5e Character Sheet that could be used with new players or kid players. I found a few that all seem to have some merit, so let me present my findings and you can decide for yourself. Some small, simplified sheets (not just for kids): The first is this nice simple sheet . The sheet has some color coding. It's a great she...

You probably already know, but to the few who don't, the latest Reaper Miniatures Kickstarter launched a few days ago, and is already off a great start. For more information, check out the link for Reaper Miniatures Bones 5 on Kickstarter. Previously, I passed on their Kickstarters for one reason only (2 actually): my painting skills are so poor and I don't think I would ever paint everything that comes in the core set in my lifetime. I occasionally picked up a few of the add-on sets in the past if it was something specific and unique that I wanted. On the other hand, this Kickstarter, like everyone of their previous ones offers a great value. With many (but not all) of the various stretch goals adding more value to the basic core pledge, you end up seeing your price per mini going down significantly by the end of the campaign. And on top of that, the add-ons give you some unique options for an additional extra cost, nice if you want larger quantities of something in the...

For obvious reasons, as I sit here to write a new blog post, the first in well over a year, I'm reminded of that classic rock song by the amazing band Boston It has been a long time, and a lot has been happening, some of it even worth writing about (at least I think so). The biggest event of the year was my regular visit to GenCon. As usual, the "Best Four Days in Gaming" did not fail to disappoint. As had happened before, this time I was on my own for the convention. Typically, when I go with friends, we usually try to play some games together, meet up for meals, and congregate for late night gaming. With none of that on hand this time, I took advantage of all the freedom to do a few new things. For past GenCon reports, check out these previous posts One of things I do to make GenCon fun and unique for me each year is to mix up what I do, and this year was no different. I did this in a couple of ways. One was to play a new game. This time I was able to g...