The conclusion to our first D&D session for Expedition to the Ancient Academy.
The party and their dwarven allies face off against the goblins, and the adventurers encounter their most dangerous foe yet. In true old school dungeons & dragons style this episode sees player’s characters down to 0 hit points, and facing save-or-die peril.
I’ve just heard the sad news that Dave Arneson, the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, has passed away at the age of 61, after a battle with cancer.
Along with Gary Gygax, Dave designed the first version of the D&D game based on his Blackmoor campaign of role-playing game scenarios. Arneson adapted a set of rules for conducting naval combat with armor class and hit points as the foundation for the rules that are still used in D&D to this day.
Wizards of the Coast has just announced that they will no longer allow PDF copies of out-of-print editions of Dungeons & Dragons to be sold. They claim that preventing the sale of PDFs will somehow help them stop the piracy of their new books. While I think iTunes is an obvious example of how giving people a legal option to buy digital content is a more effective way to combat piracy, WotC may not be aware of that service.
Meanwhile, if you don’t have a PDF copy of the classic D&D …
My local gaming store didn’t have much in the way of Heroclix, so I went into Toronto on the weekend and stopped by the Silver Snail. It’s a rather nice and well stocked comic and games store on Queen west. They had a much better selection of Heroclix starter sets and booster packs, and I picked up an Arkam Assylum booster pack. The quality of the minis was a lot higher than what I was expecting (I thought they’d be about equal to the Heroscape figures) and …
Continuing our old school game of D&D titled “Expedition to the Ancient Academy”, the party finds the door to an old crypt. Will they brave enough, or foolish enough, to open the door and explore inside? Will all those who enter, leave again?
The group is really into the spirit of the game at this point, and people seem well immersed in the fictional world of the dungeon beneath the old monastery.
