Ok, it’s been a long time since my last post - a quarter to be precise - as I have been busy with a new job and other real life responsibilities. I have been busy too, with reading and trying out the new 4th Edition rules with the kids. The resounding verdict from both them as players, and me as DM is:

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This aint D&D daddy - can we play old school now ?

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About the only thing we agree is kinda cool about it is the way powers work. Everything else is just too… um, too… hmmm… boardgame-like? That, and the kids really miss rolling for damage.

While we will definitely be exploring integrating some of the powers into our campaign, we will not be using any of the rest of it. The sad part is that with the system change, WotC has effectively lost my business with the books, supplements, AND miniatures, because one thing that I really liked was being able to use the stat cards as reference during combat - the new stat blocks are not very backwards compatible - and I want a reference I can use, not something I have to convert.

What does this mean for the site? I honestly don’t know. There is not much demand for old school D&D blogs and there are several already that fill the niche quite nicely. I may use it for a campaign journal and reference point for the rules that I actually use, while keeping the content OGL compatible. Or, possibly even go with a creative commons license, and publish what I use as “open source house rules”

We’ll see.

You tell me - what do you want to see here?