Dragonlance D&D Game Blog

One of my players recently did some work on building a set of custom terrain pieces. Here's the link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpIeih3kmyU&sns=em One of the things I really like is the flexibility of what he built. As the video shows, so many of the pieces can easily and quickly be reused in different configurations. I hope you'll give the video a look, and feel free to leave comments here, or on the YouTube page.

Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy? Well, gotta know the enemy -- Green Day - Know Your Enemy Images can be a powerful tool for DMs. Some of the earliest D&D modules (i.e. Tomb of Horrors ) included illustration books that helped DMs to further show what the PCs were seeing at certain key moments and locations in an adventure. Also, along those same lines, miniatures not only help show where everyone is during a given moment of combat, but the sculpts and paint jobs also help clarify who or what the PCs are fighting (otherwise you could just use chess pieces for positioning). Another area where images can be very useful is for key NPCs. In any adventure there are usually one or two antagonists for the PCs to face, from the town mayor, to "the evil necromancer" to the "goblin king". For some of these characters (the necromancer and the goblin king) miniatures might be useful, but for the town mayor, a miniature isn't probably very useful,

As my past reviews here and here have indicated, I'm not very fond of the Kre-o Dungeons and Dragons figures, but considering how truly iconic the character of Drizzt is, I just had to pick one up. As for the figure itself I think it's a wonderful representation of the much beloved drow ranger. The kreon has a nice white hair piece, comes with two scimitars, and has great detail in the torso printing, down to the fur lining of his cloak. The figure also comes with a nice bow and pieces to make a small tree with a practice bulls eye. Unfortunately, that's all you get, and that's where this set, and all the Warriors sets in general, really miss their mark. For the extra price of the set, the Warriors sets run at least $1 more than the blind figure packs, all you get is a handful of extra pieces. In the case of the Drizzt set, just getting a lone figure doesn't really seem like an iconic presentation. Where is Guenhwyvar, his panther companion? The kre-o line