At Will

I’ve met and chatted with a lot of great people since I’ve opened up 4etopia.  One of the people I’ve chatted at length with is Aaron Broder, aka gifted munchkin on the forums, aka the author of the blog Allgeektout.  It’s a relatively new blog, but there is a grip of really good content there.

Including something from yours truly

I’ll post an excerpt here, but really you should check out Allgeektout’s Dungeoncraft series in general.  Being a hardcore DM, I always get into what people are cooking up for their individual campaign worlds.

Herai’s father worked in the mines.  Peaceful and diligent, he never missed a day, rising early with a quick prayer to the gods, arriving home late covered in in black from the mines.  Gustalf raised his boy to be just like him.  Herai was to carry on in the the dirty and noble profession of mining, and that was that.  Gustalf heard no nonsense of schooling, and certainly no heretical talk of the arcane.  A devout, hard-working miner.  That’s what the Ironblack men where raised to be.

On my end, I just love making characters and character backgrounds, as you may have noticed with The New Breed series or my previous posts on villains.  I was all too happy to make a character fitting into the world of Allein.

A quick note to let our loyal readers know that I am doing some guest-authoring on The Core Mechanic for an RPG Blog Carnival.  The name of the series is “The Skill Challenges of War” and also has the mad genius of MadBrewLabs guest authoring as well.

This got me to thinking: How could I come up with a skill challenge to mediate their escape from the city without sacrificing some good roleplaying?

Then I started thinking: What sort of skill challenges in 4E would need to be created for war-time campaigns?

Definitely worth a thorough reading -we’ve got some great stuff in there, and my skill challenges are coming on Thursday.