Author Archives: Sarah Darkmagic
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Player’s Guide: All About Themes
2May 18, 2011 by Sarah Darkmagic
While a number of ways exist to express your character, 4e D&D has three main ways of doing so: race, …
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Player’s Guide: Embrace Your Newness
2April 11, 2011 by Sarah Darkmagic
Over the past few weeks, I had the pleasure of being the Dungeon Master (DM) for a number of players …
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Player’s Guide: Thinking about Role-Playing
3March 21, 2011 by Sarah Darkmagic
One of the frequent complaints I hear from players new to the game is that it’s all too confusing. Let’s …
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Intro to Role-Playing
3February 14, 2011 by Sarah Darkmagic
Role-playing, a phrase that strikes fear into the hearts of many D&D players, new and veteran alike. Why are so …
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How Did You Meet?
7January 10, 2011 by Sarah Darkmagic
So far we’ve discussed character creation, how to do it, what tools to use, etc. However, very few games involve …
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Bringing It All Together
Leave a commentDecember 13, 2010 by Sarah Darkmagic
Over the past few months, I discussed the steps of building a character. But let’s actually do one using the …
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Powers, Powers, Everywhere
2November 8, 2010 by Sarah Darkmagic
When I started this series a few months ago, Essentials wasn’t out and we weren’t quite sure how it was …
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Player’s Guide – What do you do?
1October 12, 2010 by Sarah Darkmagic
In past articles, we discussed everything from designing a character concept to filling in your ability scores. Now it’s time …
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Solo Adventures and Learning to Play a Character
4September 13, 2010 by Sarah Darkmagic
Last month I suggested I would focus on selecting skills and feats but I actually want to take a bit …
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Player’s Strategy Guide: Choosing Your Scores
13August 12, 2010 by Sarah Darkmagic
Last month we discussed ability scores in general terms, what they mean and how they influence role playing. This month …
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