The Adventurer’s Backpack

Ah, yes!  The backpack, cornerstone of all experienced adventurers’ “stuff” lists.  Costing a mere two gold pieces in the standard D&D rules, it is worth sooooo much more in actual value.  It keeps all your miscellaneous gear in one, easy to get to place and serves as a place to stash the loot.  It can be used for such diverse tasks as a pillow whilst camping out to (in at least one instance) use as an improvised missile weapon*.

But of course, most of us who have played know too well the importance of this essential piece of gear.  Hell, it has become so iconic that they include a “Standard Adventurer’s Kit” as a package deal in D&D 4E!  But I can only imagine that some of you are aware that this is not the adventuring kit that I’m about to discuss…

TSR in a d20 World

Now that I’ve shared my favorite d20 books to use in your Dungeons and Dragons game, I thought I’d share my top three old school TSR releases that I find still very useful in a d20 campaign.

So without any further word-mincing, here we go:

Four Essential d20 Books for Any Dungeon Master

I’ve assembled quite the stack of game books in my time as a gamer.  Some are good, and some are a waste of shelf space.  Today, I’d like to share with you  the four d20 manuals currently in print that I find nearly indispensible. 

Armies of Immoren – Awesome!

In case you are a Warmachine player, and haven’t heard of this nifty little program, you need to check it out.  It’s called Armies of Immoren, and you can get it here.  I found out about it and I am excited.

At it’s most basic level it is an army builder, but that is only the beginning.  Its database covers all of Privateer Press’ models for both Warmachine and Hordes (though, not being a Hordes player I can’t really tell you much about that side of things with any level of credibility.)