Author Archives: Tolrendordm

Map of the Month: Jonathan Roberts Style Battlemaps

Welcome to the debut of a new column, Map of the Month. Here is where I get to share my passion for fantasy cartography, which I’ve been hooked on since I was a kid being read the Narnia and Middle-Earth … Continue reading

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Content Corner: Buying a Horse …

As promised in my post ‘Taking Stock…‘, on New Year’s Eve just gone, I’m starting several monthly columns as a way of challenging myself to achieve a regular, albeit light by the standards of many of the great bloggers out there. … Continue reading

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Wizards Watch: Out of the Bag …

Well we all knew it was coming, based on the Legends and Lore columns from 2011 (I posted on these last week…), but I’m still surprised it’s out publicly already: A New Edition of Dungeons and Dragons is on the … Continue reading

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January Update

Six days on from my ‘Taking Stock…‘ post, and already I feel like things have changed for the better! Of course this is common to New Year’s resolutions: start off with a hiss and bang with post holiday energy … … Continue reading

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Wizards Watch: Christmas Presents…

Kudos to Wizards of the Coast for managing to keep up their publishing schedule over the holiday period. I must admit that I was expecting nothing on the web-site all week, so it was a pleasant surprise – a bit … Continue reading

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Taking Stock …

The New Year approaches, and with it comes the traditional time of reminiscing about the year just gone, and crystal ball gazing into the many possibilities of the coming one… I started this blog back in January 2011, with no … Continue reading

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A Merry Gaming Christmas …

So what gaming goodness did Santa bring you, and what did you give a fellow gamer?? Well, from the list from the left, I was lucky enough to receive Player’s Option: Heroes of the Feywild! Very much looking forward to … Continue reading

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Wizards Watch: Fey Paragon Paths

The Feywild is one of the best additions, IMHO, to the 4E D&D cosmos. My current campaign strongly features the overlap of the normal world and its Fey and Shadow ‘mirrors’. Right now, some of the PCs (run by my … Continue reading

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Cartographer’s Annual 2012

Yes, it’s that time of year again! The 2012 Cartographer’s Annual for 2012 from http://www.profantasy.com has been announced … and I’ve subscribed already. For anyone that uses Campaign Cartographer software, I can’t recommend this product enough. Over the last few … Continue reading

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The Monte Cook Question

There seems to have been a fair bit of discussion around the web over Mike Mearls’ annoucement that Monte Cook was rejoining the R&D team at Wizards of the Coast. What did it mean? Where are they going this time? Well, Monte’s … Continue reading

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