Did you ever wonder how many books you own? I do. I especially was thinking about this when my child’s teacher recommended that my wife and I read to her. This struck me as odd, because not only do we read to our daughter every day, but our house has a “book problem” and I…
DDAL 4-6 The Ghost
This is the sixth of the season four adventures and is set in Barovia and marks the half way point in the season in both story and in tier transition (i.e. at the end of this you’ll transition to tier 5-10). This is a baseline 4 hour module. This module will tend to run long…
DDAL5-05 The Seer
This is the fifth of the season four adventures and is set in Barovia. This is a baseline 2 hour module. And stands alone on its own as such. There aren’t a large number of optional encounters so its hard to stretch this one out into a 4 hour slot. This is also an episodic…
DDAL4-4 The Executioner
This is the fourth of the season four adventures and is set in Barovia. This is a baseline 4 hour module. There is a LOT to do in this module and it is hard to complete it all. I went through this in a 5 hour time slot and we both went long and had…
DDAL4-3 The Executioner
This is the third of the season four adventures and is set in Barovia. This is a baseline 2 hour module. It can be stretched out to four hours by adding in more investigation and role playing but there aren’t a lot of “optional” encounters. General The general plot starts as a free form roleplay…
DDAL-4-2 The Beast
This is the first of the season four adventures that are truly set in Barovia. This is only a 2 hour module but has a number of “optional” encounters which can stretch things out substantially. General The general plot is both straight forward and a bit confusing at first because of the lack of familiarity…
To Many Holidays
Did you ever wonder how many holidays there are in a year? Easter, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Independence Day…. Ready for a shock, there are 146 days in 2016 that are tagged as an official holiday by a government entity (Federal or State). This does not include some holidays that are celebrated on the same day (for…
DDAL4-1 Suites of the Mist
This is the lead off adventure in season 4 and our reintroduction to Ravenloft. I played this at Winter Fantasy on Sunday morning and what follows are my reactions and analysis of the module. This review contains no spoiler information but may contain very general statements about the structure of the module. General DDAL4-1 follows…
The Math of Magic Missile
If you’ve ever played a wizard you know that there is one spell that you can rely on time and time again–Magic Missile. Good old Magic Missile. Magic Missiles never misses. But how good (or bad) is it really? Here’s the math. Damage Distributions The first thing to consider are the distributions of the damage…
The Math behind Advantage and Disadvantage
In the latest edition of Dungeons and Dragons (5th edition) there is a concept and rule set relating to having “advantage” or “disadvantage” on a particular task or action (an attack, a roll to resists an effect, a skill check). The rule is simple on the surface. If you have “Advantage”, an edge up on…
Grade Inflation in District 204
We have two children ages 15 and 17. Both go to Waubonsie Valley High School in Illinois Indian Prairie district 204. Now when they were starting as freshman, we the parents were invited to a night where the honor’s and advanced placement (AP) curriculum were discussed. Everything during this presentation seemed fairly simple. The school…
Earthcaller and Swiftwind
So it’s been a few years since I originally did the Everquest ranger epic back on Veeshan. I remember that quest fondly. All the different things we had to do back then from the full raid down into the Hole to get to Jael the Wretched, to the long (52 mini bosses) camp of the…
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