With rumours of a new D&D source book flying around the Internet. All we actually have that some are taking as a clue that it is Forgotten Realms based, is a dice set coming out in March.

I think WotC have got the right balance in these products between being useful and full of tatt. The map included is the Sword Coast on one side and Waterdeep on the other. Who knows what the conspiracy theorists will be reading into that, especially with the set being named after Laeral Silverhand—Open Lord of Waterdeep, FORGOTTEN REALMS LAERAL SILVERHAND’S EXPLORER’S KIT.

On the alternatives to D&D front, news was breaking that FFG was making “massive” redundancies within certain departments. I believe the two main ones effected are the Interactive department (basically their in-house software dev team) and the RPG team.

With no official statement there will obviously be various conspiracy theories going round. Redundancy is never a nice thing to go through. And it needs remembering that there are people here that have just lost their jobs. Our thoughts firstly should be with them and their families during this uncertain time.

How this will affect the RPGs that FFG produce (Star Wars, L5R, Genesys) and their on going development and support we don’t know. It’s possible that any new developments will be outsourced in some way.

So after that bit of news like stuff…

SPOILER ALERT TO MY ADVENTURERS! The following part of the post contains spoilers for the up and coming campaign. You may want to avoid this part of the post and join me in a future one.

With our next session only three days away it’s time to do those final bits of prep before scraping together the pennies to print bits out.

I think I know how the session will flow, and the main combat encounter.

The session will start off in the tavern over breakfast, and some adventure hooks being seeded.

I’m pretty sure the main combat encounter will be the gladiator arena that has been discussed in the previous prep post. I have decided that the end of the encounter will be interrupted by Hoondarrh, the Red Rage of Mintarn landing in the middle of the arena demanding their tribute is delivered early.

It will also see the party given the job of investigating the outpost they discovered on their journey to Mintarn to find out what happened to the guards and workers sent to open it up again.

For the arena I’m going to draw the map in advance on a Pathfinder battlemap. I’d love to do the 3d version. But resources are severely restricted at the moment.

I think with all the above that should be roughly the two hour session taken up. Which you will remember is the duration my group likes for their sessions.

Looking forward to Saturday.