The Tome Show

Samuel Dillon and I discuss a lot of recent D&D news as well as review the Tomb of Horrors 4e Super-Adventure.

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Noble Knight Pick of the Episode - Return to the Tomb of Horrors

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RPG Musings

DungeonMasters Roundtable

4e4Geeks

Temporary Hit Points article from Ed Greenwood "PWNing the Rabbit Hole"

Article where the Wizard getting miss effects for encounter powers is mentioned

Core world novels and Abyssal Plague

Ennie Awards (Vote Power Source for Best Podcast)

Robert J. Schwalb joins me for this episode where we discuss crafting stories for an evil party of characters and even build one encounter for them. We then discuss how to play an evil PC and not ruin everyone the fun for others. All that plus segments from Mike Shea of Sly Flourish for Evil DM Tips and Tracy Hurley from Sarah Darkmagic who talks about when a player wants to change the tone of a game.

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Noble Knight Pick of the Episode - Pirate's Guide to Freeport

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Robert J. Schwalb's website

Robert J. Schwalb's Twitter

Robert J. Schwalb on Facebook

Sly Flourish

Sarah Darkmagic

Monster Manual 3 is easily the best Monster Manual yet. In this episode Quinn Murphy, Mike Shea, and host Jeff Greiner share their thoughts about the book and give an example of how it has inspired them to create something. They also extensively discuss recent D&D news.

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Noble Knight Pick of the Episode - Orcus!!!

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Phil Athans leaves WotC Novels

D&D Comic preview

Power Source Podcast

Icosahedraphelia

Temporary Hit Points

Quinn's Article on Temporary Hit Points

Vorpal Network

Vorpal Network Forums

Jeff's Monster Knowledge Article on At-Will

Orcus' Twitter

Sly Flourish Twitter

Sly Flourish

At-Will blog

The Player's Strategy Guide brings you some great ideas and advice on how to make your character all that it can be. To examine this book I brought in guests: Tracy Hurley, Jake Fitch, and Samuel Dillon. I also conducted an interview with one of the primary designers who worked on the book, Andy Collins.

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Sarah Darkmagic - Where Tracy blogs

RPG Musings - Where Sam blogs

At-Will - Where Jake blogs

Temporary Hit Points - for 4e Players

Twitters: Tracy, Jake, Samuel, and Jeff

Chris S. Sims of Critical-Hits and formerly of WotC joins me to talk about how to re-skin a character so make the PC you really want, without restriction of rules. We then demonstrate those ideas when we build a warforged shaman.

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Critical-Hits

Temporary Hit Points

Forum post with the PDFs of the Warforged Shaman builds

Amethyst Foundations is a sci-fi/fantasy setting that blends technology and magic into a densely detailed and compelling story. There are mechanics to support technology in your 4e D&D game as well as new classes, races, and more. I am joined by Tracy from Sarah Darkmagic as well as Quinn from At-Will.

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Amethyst RPG: Foundation (4th Edition Campaign Setting)

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Temporary Hit Points

Goodman Games

Dias Ex Machina

Sarah Darkmagic

At-Will

The King of RPGs is an American manga about a student who becomes obsessed with gaming. Victor Cantu, Will Wong, and myself review the book followed by an interview with Jason Thompson, the author.

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Fist Full of Comics and Games

King of RPGs

In this episode we take a different approach to looking at The Plane Below and the Plane Above. First, yes, I know I mentioned in the show that it was episode 134, but in reality it is episode 135. My bad. Guests for this episode are Matt James and Geoffrey D. Winn. Please swing by the forums to let us know what you think about the new review format. It'll be nice to see a bit of activity over there.

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Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Supplement: The Plane Below - Secrets of the Elemental Chaos

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Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Supplement: The Plane Above - Secrets of the Astral Sea

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Loremaster - Matt James' great D&D focused website/forums.

The Portal of Penn - Game Store where Geoffrey D. Winn DMs regularly

Logan Bonner, recently of Wizards of the Coast, joins me for this episode where he gives us all some advice on the sort of things that you can look for as a DM to make your encounters simple to run, fast to play, and fun and evocative for the players. We also feature another segment from Sly Flourish on using fantastic terrain and Sarah Darkmagic also swings in for the first of many advice segments helping players do their part to keep an encounter fun for everyone.

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Logan's Blog

Sly Flourish

Sarah Darkmagic

I discuss how to run a skill challenge with Quinn Murphy the At-Will blog and help Tracy from SarahDarkmagic.com build one for her game with Mike Shea from Sly Flourish.

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FRP Pick of the episode - D&D 4e Freeport Companion

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At-Will

SlyFlourish

SarahDarkmagic