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2014-09-02

Official Response to Character Creation--Can We Use 4d6 Method


Thank you very much for your patience while this was escalated to my attention. To answer your question, the D&D Adventurer's League has specific character generation rules that ensure fairness and equality in character generation. The system allows you to generate your character’s ability scores using only the following methods:

• Standard set (15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8)
• Customizing ability scores variant (Player’s Handbook chapter 1)

Notice that the "Standard set" is an array of numbers that you can get with the "Customizing ability scores variant", so they are indeed balanced with one another.

To be clear, it is not allowed to roll random ability scores in the D&D Adventurer's League.

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2014-08-22

Something Evil Stirs in the Gnoll Fortresses of Menectauren


Another fun week in Vandale's Garage playing the Bake--a 4th Edition Eberron game.

We started things off, like all real gamers, by having the Pizza delivered




Our Pizza man has been working there for 30 years... 



Set up in the garage was, like always, awesome--of course, I forgot my dice!



DM James was in fine form for this RP Session



Andrew character was the focus for a lot of the investigation this week--he is part of some evil shadow House Thuranni that left house Phiarlan 



Brett is playing Vassa, but we are getting closer to finding and killing Shooter.



Cameron hurt his knee & is playing Fiddenmar who is now in charge of Brett's ranger house.



David is playing a Warlord who is also in the evil house--and running G riff when Watson cannot make it.



I am playing KUBA, the final Shardmind who is a monk--I need to do a lot of min/max work on him. 



The session when well into the night--when things start to get distorted.


We listened to some really great music during this session--the Indie station was killing it!

Oh yeah, and we are gearing up to fight gnolls--some kind of demon gnolls--it will be great.



2014-08-20

Hoard of the Dragon Queen--D&D Encounters S19 S1


Hoard of the Dragon Queen kickoff at Comic Quest in El Toro!

We had three tables which is awesome! Here is my quick attendance.
























The players self sorted by the time that I showed up.





I had created some tables to help with character creation.








Only about one third of the players rolled on the tables. 

Once we had Race, Class, and Background players got busy with some serious character creation.








Jack accurately recorded the hit points for his Tiefling Fighter Sailor.



 Brian gave us some very psychedelic gum.




And that was it for Character Creation!

Next week, I am out of town and the week after that....

Ready Set Play with D&D R&D (GenCon 2014)



This is a great introduction to the new edition of D&D--they review some of the design goals, talk through character creation, and describe the public play landscape.

Short easy listen with a lot of good information if you are new to the system.