So I got an email from the creators of Spellfury to get an opinion of their latest release.  Honored as I am that my opinion would count for something I’m not sure what to say.

My previous review of spellfury hasn’t changed in opinion at all.  It is still the super-low budget get together with a video camera and some editing software and have some fantasy fun that it always was.  In this episode we get a bit of the back story.  Aparently the elf chick’s father was slaughtered at the family home and she is out to get revenge against (or just run from) the bad guys.

Again, the 3 minute time investment makes it mildly interesting and it sure looks to me like Travis Gordon and crew are having a lot of fun with it.

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Looking for another collection of campaign ideas?  Need a storyline?  Got something you want to share but you don’t want to start yet another D&D site that is just going to die out in 2 weeks?  Maybe you should try legendarygate.com.

Legendary Gate is a new online tool designed to help collect and distribute campaign ideas, adventures, campaigns, and all that good stuff.

Legendary Gate will, of course, not solve all of your problems and it may not be the tool for you, but like so many other things in the DM toolbox, there is a time and a place for everything.

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So this is for all those of you out there not interested in paying the Wizards of the Coast Use tax in order to use their character builder/managment software.

MWMDragon over at www.dungeonsdragons.selfip.com has created a new database specifically for storing your 4th edition character information, which of course can be useful for a variety of different applications.  Personally (if I weren’t paying the WOTC tax) I would use it because I keep all of my data electronically and it would be a convenient way of storing said data w/o worrying if my hard drive is going to crash.

MWMDragon said that “It is meant to aid in online pnp gaming, by making a safe storage place for everyone’s character sheets during and after play.”  If that sounds like something useful to you then go ahead and check out the online character database.

Please note that it isn’t the most glamorous looking piece of software ever invented.  There is a help button but it just brings up a shot of the character sheet instructions from the PHB.  Of course since all you are doing is filling in data from your character sheet I don’t see that anyone smart enough to read the PHB and the internet will need any help using the database.

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Typically I don’t bother with the myriad of online stores out there selling everything from panake syrup to re-usable diapers, but Shopwiki caught my attention.  Not only because they don’t necessarily sell everything that you can find on their site or even make money when you buy it but because when I did a search for Dungeons and Dragons I found very quickly links to some good vintage D&D books, books that I couldn’t find on Amazon or after a lot of searching elsewhere.  So I’m passing it along to the rest of you.

Shopwiki is basically a wiki for shoppers so of course they have stuff for video games, consoles, and all that other jazz, but they don’t just cram the crap down your throat either.  They have some pretty useful information with regards to what you are buying hence the wiki part of it.

They have buying guides for just about everything as well from games to controllers.  Like everything else online you have to be a bit careful and do some poking around to verify.

What caught my eye was the fact that it was so easy to find links to vintage D&D stuff that I really had a hard time finding elsewhere.  Without that I don’t know that I would have bothered to write anything at all.

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Well, I got to taking a look around and guess what I discovered?  Today is my 100th post here.  Now I’m sure that the vast majority of you are going to skip on through an off topic post, and frankly I don’t blame you a bit.  However, I did want to pass on a couple of links which are important to me, if not important to the rest of you.

First:

A link to the first chapter of my novel The Cleansing of Darnuth Keep.  For those of you who don’t know, in addition to playing copious amounts of Dungeons and Dragons and preparing adventures for said game I also write stories, poetry and novels.  The Cleansing of Darnuth Keep is my first novel published entirely online and as the title of this post declares this is a shameless promotion of that work.

For those of you out there looking for something to read, well I have to say that I enjoyed writing it as much as I have enjoyed reading just about any other work of fantasy out there. What you’ll find on the site is are the various chapters, each published weekly (though I suspect some of the links are a bit broken as I don’t maintain that site as much as this one).

Second:

If you want to get the entire book in one easy to read .pdf file, well you’ll have to pay for that.  $5 will get you the e-book version, which is much more convenient that trying to navigate the links (did I mention that the entire novel isn’t up yet?).  There are, of course links on the site or you can follow the direct link here.  You’ll need to enter a name (doesn’t have to be your real name) and a valid email address.  You need a valid email address because that is where the download link will be sent.

In any event I do hope you drop on by and check out a chapter or two or three or twenty.

Finally I would like to send out a huge thanks to all those of you who have made reaching 100 posts an enjoyable experience.  There have been a number of comments on several topics, many of which are quite frankly of very different opinion than my own.  I think this is wonderful.  Some of you have very much inspired me to try different things and to think in new ways, which is always refreshing.  Others have simply made me wonder at your upbringing.  To each of you I express public gratitude.

As always, have fun with your game!

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So I’m browsing the web and I came across www.spellfury.com.  Understand that I’m pretty much into whatever has to do with D&D or sword and sorc type stuff.

Spellfury doesn’t really have much to do with D&D other than it is a sword and sorcery type live action movie.  Okay, movie might be a bit of a stretch.  Basically it looks like a bunch of like-minded people getting together and filming some serious live-action role-playing with some low-budget special effects thrown in for fun.

What can I say, its pretty fun stuff.

Personally I never got into live-action role-playing.  Not because I have a particular aversion to live-action role-playing, but more because circumstances never really came together for it.  Between the wife and kids I barely have time for the role-playing that I do let alone gearing up for a live game.  That, and all the friends I have (had) who do live action role-playing now live in other states (which is to say that I now live in another state).

But I digress.  The point is that if you are into low-budget fun and checking out others who are also into low-budget fun then check out spellfury.com.  It is worth the short trip over, and if you don’t like it then it is worth the short trip back to leave your opinion here.

Now, be forwarned that the website is nearly impossible to navigate.  There is a huge clutter of art in various locations, so it can be more than just a tad difficult to figure out where to go.  Luckily the movie bits are all there on the front (at least I didn’t find any anywhere else), so no worries about navigating through a jumble of links to get to the juicy bits.

There is also a message board, though at the moment it appears to be more or less dead.

Did I mention low-budget?  As in friends getting together to have fun, which is what D&D is all about.  You can call it cheesy.  You can call it simple.  There are lots of things to call it.  Mostly I think it is just fun.  I think that is what I liked about it.  It is just people having fun with what they love, regardless of the opinions of others.  That is something I can respect.

I’ll be following their continued adventures until inevitably they run out of time and/or money and the project dies.

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Ok, so is the new D&D Draconomicon worth buying?  Is it worth stealing? (C’mon you know someone who has a bootleg electronic copy, and if you don’t you wish you did).  Well, personally I’m just a fan of hardcover D&D books - if for nothing else the art and the feel of a solid hardback book in my hands.  Draconomicon meets those criteria - but does that mean I’m willing to shell out the cash for it?

Lets start with the good points - Art.  The art is good.  I like dragons.  Who doesn’t like dragons?  And a book about dragons better have pretty dragons in it.  Draconomicon delivers pretty dragons.  So on a scale of 1 to worth it - the art gets a worth it.

DM useful.  Again I have to give it a worth it here.  There are those out there who may diss on Chapter 3: Dragon Lairs, but personally I find 75 pages of stuff I don’t have to write myself very useful.  Can’t use it all the time - but can and will use it when needed.  Get an electronic copy (scanner anyone) drop an image into Microsoft Excel and bam you have a game grid sized map - I explained how to use Excel for maps a while ago.

Cool New Creatures - Mostly worth it.  Once again I tend to shamelessly use what is already printed.  Why then only a mostly worth it?  Draconomicon just doesn’t meet all my flavor expectations.  My opinion, my bias - essentially me just complaining for no real reason. Purple dragons - not so much.  Gray Dragons - reminds me of the stone guardians outside of the castle in Bard’s Tale.  I prefer dragons with color (just not really purple).

Overall flavor - Take out the Purple Dragons and Draconomicon will pass muster.  I like dragons, who doesn’t?  A whole book about them - well Wizards ought to publish at least a few.

For your convenience (and my own) I’ve placed a handy link to buy the product here at the end of the post.

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