Baba Yaga’s Hut, in D&D

I was playing D&D last weekend, when the topic of one of my great games, played a long time ago arose. This was Baba Yaga’s Hut. A bit of googling, states that this was published in Dragon Magazine #83. I have checked my personal [paper] archive and I do not have it. So I went…

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Magic Missile, D&D 5E

To me this has always been the creation of an attack of magic darts, with each dart’s damage being evaluated by a single d4 i.e. scoring between 1 and 4, and adding an extra point of damage. One gets to roll a lot of dice. A recent statement from WOTC is that one should roll…

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Sidekicks in D&D 5e

Hmm, we used to call them henchmen. The rules it seems are optional, and I am not sure I am ready for this, as I need to learn to play my classes better than I do.

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Watching Critical Role

I really enjoyed the first two series of critical role, and have also watched a bunch of the one offs and mini-series. I watched on youtube, not on the real-time streaming service and found it useful to have series of resources to hand to help understand the rules of the game. I made a page,…

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On the WOTC OGL

At the turn of the years 2022/23 Wizards of the Coast shocked their 3rd party creator community by proposing to revoke their open licence and charge royalties on successful derived content. I created this page to track the events and comments made and posted a blog article, On WOTCs permissive licences, also mirrored on medium….

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Baldurdash 301

This was the original and first unofficial fixpack for the Baldur’s Gate family of games. I refer to it in this wiki on  a couple of my BG2 articles. It has now moved and can be found at Gibberlings 3 and has been renamed “fixpack”. The old site is available at the wayback machine.

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NWN2: the Harp & the Chrysanthemum

I decided to play this. I downloaded it from its home page but the game has been updated. Here are my  notes, which talks a bit about version control but also includes some hints. For more, including the play hints, see below/overleaf.

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D&D Miniatures

Having cleared out nearly all my miniature models from Dungeons and Dragons & Warhammer, I was wondering about replacing some of them. Where to buy them and how to get them painted. Here are my notes. This was originally done in 2019 and I didn’t get round to seriously considering this until 2025.

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More on classes in D+D

For some reason I looked at the video below/overleaf on Youtube, it’s about D&D character classes and multi-classing and this is my response. Not sure how useful it is as most of the words relate to rules no longer used. I conclude with the words, “in summary, if playing in a balanced party, given the…

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Dungeons & Dragons

I bought Ben a copy of the AD&D 5e Starter Pack for Xmas, let’s hope he reciprocates by asking me to join in, although how to do that while’s he’s abroad might be fun … need to check out NWN worlds. Here are some notes….

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Elanee

Here are my notes on Elanee, one of the protagonist’s companions in NWN2. This is what the NWN2 wiki has to say. It contains advice on the build, highlighting certain spells and critically feats; as ever it includes a story summary and details, sadly deleted content.

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VIKING BERSERKER (Bear Warrior)

This is a mirror of the Epic Guild page, which it seems has now disappeared. I have added a link to my fan video of a shifter/werebear below/overleaf which was originally posted in my article, Rendering New Age Video, on this wiki. The URL was http://home.comcast.net/~worldofgreyhawk/builds/data/build275446.html, I suspect that this is the best mirror that…

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