This is a cool app that randomly generates a hook for your character.for D&D Encounters. &nb...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
GenCon 2014 Presentation - D&D Organized Play
Discover the changes being made to Dungeons & Dragons Organized Play and what it means for your store. A seminar by Chris Tulach
An interesting watch, even if your not a store owner.
He does emphasizes the store as a centerpiece for organize play, clearly outlining one of the goals of organized play as being to:
"Deliver...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Understanding AL Content
Here's a great write up by Merric Blackman (you might know him from enworld) about how the current AL supported content might fit together.
I haven't read it that closely, but I liked his charts....
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Tools for 5e Spellcasters!
Here's a updated AL character sheet that merges the spell list from the default 5e character sheet (form fillable).
Here's the form fillable spell sheet by itself.
And here's a neat online 5e spell database.
If your looking for an online game, try our Google Gro...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Maps of Hoard of the Dragon Queen now online!
WARNING for PLAYERS - SPOILERS.
The artist has put images/maps up for Hoard of the Dragon Queen, which is the big Adventurer's League storyline this season, up on his online store. The maps look great, and if all you want to use it for is Roll20, you can just download...
Thursday, August 14, 2014
Basic Rules Updates
Looks like the Basic Rules have been updated: http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/basicrules.
Also, there's the DM's Basic Rules: http://media.wizards.com/2014/downloads/dnd/DMDnDBasicRules_v0.1.pdf
From just a glance it appears that DM's Basic Rules...
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Finding or Creating Tokens for VTTs
I just noticed there we're a few people on the list that we're asking about how to find tokens for their player characters. Tokens are what represent your character when you using maps on the various VTTs and in the case roll20.net, all a DM needs to do is drag and...
Thursday, August 7, 2014
Dungeon Masters - Start Thy Engines!
So in order to help DMs figure out how they can get things going I wanted to outline a few steps that may help encourage you to get started and start running online games.
The Player's Handbook comes out tomorrow in FLGs and on the 18th everywhere else, and being that the...
Projects of Debatable Usefullness
Given that my history with organized play program comes from Pathfinder Society, I have to admit that I yearn for a bit of structure. If you read my rambling post, that attempted (badly) to differentiate the philosophical approaches of PFS and Adventurer's League, you...
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Recruitment Thread Formatting
Adapted from a post by Michael Rai.
I'd like to propose using somewhat of a standard format in subject lines for recruiting for DALOC games on the Google Group. This helps when searching through forum posts for games and puts most of the necessary recruitment information...
Community Made Lost Mine of Phandelver Maps
This was made by Torgaard and posted to the Fantasy Grounds Forum.
If you don't want to spend the money on Mike Schley's map, here are some community made maps that can be dropped right into Roll20.net or your VTT of choice. Player's be aware: SPOILERS...
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
In Defense of Adventurer's League...
If you are not familiar with Pathfinder Society (PFS), then this won't mean much to you, but hopefully this can still be helpful.
I've been exchanging emails and having online conversations with gaming buddies of mine, all of us having been involved with Pathfinder Society...
Monday, August 4, 2014
DALOC Collected Resources
Official Wizards of the Coasts
Quick Start Guide
Dungeons and Dragons 5e Free Basic Rules (printer friendly)
AL Player's Guide (printer friendly)
Official AL Organizer's Website
Official AL Forums
Official AL Character Sheet
Official AL Adventure Log
DALOC
Sanctioned...
Sunday, August 3, 2014
Getting Started: First Steps
Welcome to DnD Adventure's League Online Organized Play.
We’re glad you decided to give it a try.
Here are three things that everyone will need to do when starting in Adventurer's League, whether you are going to Play or DM:
If you have very little time (Player's Only):
Download and read the Quickstart Guide.
Download a use one of these Starter...
Fillable Character Sheet Beta
This is the first release of the PDF Fillable Official DnD Adventurer's League Character Sheet.
Please keep in mind this is a Beta, and I'm looking for feedback on how the elements work (or are not working) and I'll issue new releases with bug fixes. I know the tabs...
Saturday, August 2, 2014
Download the Form-Fillable Adventure Log
As I'm thinking through the logistics of running Adventurer's League games online, I realized players are going to need a form fillable PDF of the adventure log. With this, you can send a completed and up to date form to the DM prior to your game. You can use...
Friday, August 1, 2014
Official Resources Page for DnD Adventurer's League
This official resources page was not easy to find through the menus on the official Dungeons and Dragons website, but it does have all the official downloads down at the bottom. I'll relink most the items here on this blog, but it's a good place for players to figure...
A Few Thoughts on the Player's Guide
Just finished reading the Adventurer's League Players Guide and here are some of the highlights of AL organized play.
Character creation is almost exactly as it appears in the Basic Rules, with a few exceptions.
You can't roll your own stats.
You can't be of...
