Broken Binding

This week, DriveThruRPG.com and its sister site RPGNow.com are celebrating GM Day. It’s the one day (week, really) that you can suck up to your game master and give him or her some swag in the hopes that you’ll be allowed to reroll that failed saving throw. There are discounts all over the site.

My own products are no exception. You can save on The Blacksmith’s Burden, a low-level adventure available for both Dungeons & Dragons 4^th Edition and the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. You can also pick up The Eternal Rest, an inn set with dozens of haunted hooks suitable for any fantasy roleplaying game.

Did the party just get TPK’d? Your GM might be trying to tell you something. Buying something as a GM Day bribe might be a way to start the new campaign off on the right foot. I’m not saying you have to or anything, but don’t act surprised when your GM makes you roll your stats 3d6 “down the line” and then tells you that she always believed the Hopeless Character rule was “too generous.”

That’s right. I just dropped the old “green” sourcebooks. (Kittens with battleaxes sold separately.)

And, if you are starting a new campaign, why not bust out one of the classic 2E campaign setting sourcebooks like the Vikings or the Glory of Rome? Any of these is an easy GM Day way to score a +2 circumstance bonus for your Diplomacy check to determine whether or not Fraz-Urb’luu really broke your vorpal swords or just kinda broke them… Either way, you’re probably not going to be adventuring under Castle Greyhawk again.

SPOILER: The Prince of Lies did really break your swords. Next time don’t trust every bas relief carving you meet. The sword, and soul, you save might be your own.