Crafting

Craft Time Palisade Walls

Craft Time Palisade Walls

One of the first set piece battles my players faced in the campaign I'm running, was pretty much stolen right from Icewind Dale 2.  It's where the goblins attack the town under cover of darkness in the beginning of the game. I wanted to make it epic so I spent quite a...

Re-purposing paint chips / cards

Re-purposing paint chips / cards

A few years ago I was running a Star Wars game (Saga) and started cannibalizing some old D20 modules.  One of them was Head Trip  written by Jeff Grubb.  I used it more or less as written re-stated for Saga.  Depending on how the players react to the various...

DIY Pillars

DIY Pillars

When we picked up D&D again with 4th edition we went very low tech.  I think most of us picked a mini for our characters but for pretty much everything else we used lego minifigs.  Red colored minis were kobolds, green were goblins and orcs.  We eventually...

Craft time (stalagmites)

Craft time (stalagmites)

As gamers we're always on the look out for something we can use to spice up our games.  Whether it's twigs and rocks collected from outside or fancy new maps from the FLGS, we want to engage the players and give them the ooo's and ahhh's when they sit down to play....