The Tome Show

Skill Challenges have been a long developing, changing, and debated topic in 4e D&D. This month (April) I am calling Skill Challenge Month and towards that goal I am planning a couple of episodes of how to make them work and be awesome. To those ends, I ...

I am joined by Andrew Wilson of Silent7Seven Games and we set out to build a Drow Priestess of Lolth, discuss how to pick monsters for your encounters, and Sly Flourish bring us advice on how to use Divine Power to inspire your DMing. Sponsors: ...

To look at the PH3 I called on veteran Tome contributors Will Wong and Quinn Murphy from the At-Will blog. We examined the new races, new classes, and new features, like psionics, hybrid classes, and skill powers. All in all, we decided that this is the ...

Martial Power 2 is designed to give more options for your fighter, rogue, ranger, or warlord. To see if the book is successful at that I brought in Dave Chalker from Critical Hits as well as Jared Glenn from the Power Source podcast. Sponsor: N...

Underdark is a book designed to make the dangerous underground setting easier to use as a setting for your adventures. In this episode I am joined by the Newbie DM Enrique, Chris from Icosohedraphelia, and Mark from the Dicemonkey's and RPG Circus. S...

Wolfgang Baur joins me in this episode where we build a monster called a Spark based on a Pathfinder RPG monster built by Adam Daigle for a monster contest at Kobold Quarterly. We then talk about how to make your character work in a group even though you...

This episode is a collection of mini-reviews of a slew of 3rd party products (products usable for D&D but not by Wizards of the Coast). Chris Heard from Icosohedraphelia gives us reviews of the Chessex Dice Boot, Sonic Legends Soundscapes, and Paizo Game...

Mike Shea of Sly Flourish joins me for a discussion where we build an encounter at a portal to the Fey Wild based around Foulspawn and then we talk about finding the balance of using collaborative storytelling in your game as a DM and a player. Sponso...

I am joined in this episode by Matt James to talk about what he's doing in the D&D world, as well as building a Shadar-Kai Swordmage and giving advice on how to start a new campaign. Sponsors: Pick of the Episode - Plane Below Character Buil...

Dave Chalker and Quinn Murphy join me to talk about Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons. We tend to like the book although think that one chapter (Dragon Lairs) was lacking in creativity. Sponsors: Pick of the Episode 1st Edition Draconomicon ...