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September 15, 2011 by Jeff
Welcome to the continuation of the tales of my most recent journey into player-dom. In previous installments I told you …
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Category: Articles, Tell Me About Your Character
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Tags: back up, background, character, design, introduction, pc, story
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July 4, 2011 by Jeff
In the introduction to this Feature series I explained that I think it’s valuable to give players the chance to …
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Category: Articles, Feature
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Tags: advice, design, elemental, feat, feature, mechanics, player, story
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May 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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Category: Articles, Player's Guide
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Tags: character, character builder, D&D Insider, players guide, story, themes
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May 9, 2011 by Jeff
There are some great settings out there in the world of D&D. Be they fully fleshed out worlds like the …
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Category: Articles, One Shot
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Tags: advice, background, backstory, campaign, character, fluff, inspiration, story
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March 28, 2011 by Jeff
Let’s cut to the chase, epic destiny choice should be informed primarily on the story you’ve been telling with your …
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Category: Articles, Explain Yourself
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Tags: advice, D&D Insider, destiny, epic, optimization, paragon path, plane shaper, punisher of the gods, ranger, role-playing, story
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February 21, 2011 by Jeff
The character for this article is Krasnak and the advice to get from him is to let go and leave …
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Category: Articles, Tell Me About Your Character
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Tags: advice, background, backstory, character, choices, dwarf, fluff, role-playing, story
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January 17, 2011 by thebasicsofthegame
Editors Note: Last month McCoy wrote an Explain Yourself article about playing an evil PC. I thought it was good …
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Category: Feature, Uncategorized
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Tags: advice, cleric, good, paladin, role-playing, story
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January 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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Category: Articles, Player's Guide
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Tags: advice, background, backstory, inspiration, party building, players guide, story
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November 30, 2010 by Jeff
The month of November asked what your biggest player pet peeve is and I was not too surprised by the …
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Category: Articles, Poll of the Month
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Tags: peeves, poll, story, tactics, time
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November 22, 2010 by Jeff
So you’ve reached the pinnacle of awesome in your game, you got yourself a kick butt artifact that has loads …
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Category: Articles, Killer Combo
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Tags: advice, artifact, character, growth, orcus, role-playing, scimitar, story, timbala