I finished reading through the 4E Player’s Handbook last week. 4E introduced some significant changes in mechanics from the previous edition of Dungeons and Dragons. There are a lot of good reviews of the core rules, but seeing as this is a blog about writing fantasy fiction, I wanted to take a different tack. D&D [...]
Depicting game mechanics in fantasy fiction
Filed under Trends & Tropes on June 18, 2008
Tagged: 4E, Dungeons and Dragons, fantasy fiction, game mechanics
A hundred years from now
Filed under Writing Journal on January 15, 2008
Tagged: 4E, Dungeons and Dragons, Forgotten Realms
If you haven’t heard yet, Rich Baker revealed that the fourth edition of Dungeons & Dragons will advance the Forgotten Realms timeline to 1479. That’s more than 100 years from the current setting. (I’m basing this on the year listed in recently released FR novels.) The Spellplague alluded to in the Grand History of the [...]
