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If deadlines were dragons, I'd be in the lair with nothing left but my trusty sword and a relentless determination to slay the fucker and take his heart back to The Adventure Hook Tavern as a souvenir.

So in place of a proper post, here's what I did this weekend:

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I'm running a 4e dungeon delve at Emerald City Comicon this weekend, and instead of taking one out of the book, I'm creating my own. I haven't done this in at least 15 years, but after about 30 minutes with the graph paper, the Monster Manual and my imagination, it all came back to me. I ended up a little delve that I think could be part of a larger campaign if I wanted to expand it, and I've come up with some pretty cool (if I say so myself) ways to encourage the PCs to do some role playing, even though they're getting pregenerated characters and it's a one-shot.

Okay, I'm going back to work. This dragon isn't going to slay itself.

Ohh! Edited to add this from Level 1 Gamer in comments:

I had the privilege of playing in the one of your Dungeon Delves at Rincon (www.rincongames.com) and had a blast.  I'm happy you are continuing with the idea because it's a great treat for the players and a great way to raise money for charity.  Are the proceeds going to Child's Play again?

I'm sure I don't need to convince anybody here, but if you are going to ECCC, try to get into Wil's Delve.  You won't be disappointed. He's a great DM.

I wrote a post about the experience on my blog if you want to see some pictures and video from one of the Delves at Rincon: http://www.level1gamer.com/2009/11/04/i-survived-wil-wheatons-dungeon-delve-of-doom/

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8 March, 2010 Wil

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58 thoughts on “piles of magic armor are hoarded in the southern caves”

  1. Metadm says:
    9 March, 2010 at 5:58 pm

    well who am i kidding? ill demo my stuff to anyone a ECCC

  2. Wil's#1FAN!!! says:
    9 March, 2010 at 7:22 pm

    XD

  3. Frank Anderson says:
    10 March, 2010 at 1:05 am

    Hey Wil, if you get the chance check out the gaming blog I just started. http://havedicewilltravel.blogspot.com/ No worries if you can’t, I know you are one busy guy, and no I won’t be a dick if you don’t. As an “old school” gamer I get a kick reading your posts about gaming.

  4. MomOfZeus says:
    10 March, 2010 at 3:43 pm

    Little late to the party, but me too. Met the spousal unit of 25 years playing D&D, and learned a very valuable lesson about pissing off the DM!! – Picture 15th level Ranger walking around with her Ray Bans duct taped to her head because she was talking to someone while the DM was rolling and he chopped off her nose, and when she protested he rolled and took both her ears. She shut up and rolled for duct tape from her bag of holding and ran around that way for 4 more games. And they were such nice pointy elf ears too – LOL

  5. www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1074271541 says:
    12 March, 2010 at 3:44 pm

    I knew I recognized it from somewhere. That’s where the Minotaur is isn’t it?

  6. www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1074271541 says:
    12 March, 2010 at 3:48 pm

    I was skeptical of 4E at first, but one of the things I love about it now is that it has given me an excuse to buy graph paper and doodle dungeons on it. Kinda like junior high all over again.

  7. www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkwHH0sFZvNFw1mzMMNYETSx5wvY28mCRY says:
    12 March, 2010 at 11:39 pm

    Old school, writing your own delve from scratch. You know that WotC’s new Wednesday night Encounters dungeon delve (in the infamous Undermountain, no less,) starts on St. Paddy’s Day, right? (Please don’t drink & dice…) AND Worldwide D&D Game Day is next Saturday…there seems to be a lot of D&D happening lately! Maybe we’ll see you back at Game Empire sometime soon…

  8. James_mace says:
    17 March, 2010 at 9:01 am

    Hey, this is awesome, wish I could have joined in!
    I was wondering what’s involved in having you run this delve (or a whole new one) at another con? A friend of mine organizes http://www.gamesummit.ca and I told him I’d look into the possibility of having you run a delve in June in Ottawa. I also like the idea of proceeds going to a charity.

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