Building the Best Assassin (Executioner Build) in D&D

Meet Havelock. He's the current character I play in Dungeons & Dragons. Havelock is a (currently) Level 10 Drow Assassin (Executioner build). This post is going to be a guide to what I feel is the best build for an assassin in D&D. There'll be a bit of theory craft, a bit of lore, and a bit of baseless opinion, so feel free to disregard or complain. This guide is going to be based on D&D 4th Edition (4e) , rather than the just recently...

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Custom 3D Printed Miniatures with Hero Forge

For those that play Dungeons & Dragons and have ever wished that your mini perfectly matched your character, but didn't have the artistic skill to sculpt one for yourself, your prayers have been answered. Enter Hero Forge. Like Dwarven Forge, Hero Forge caters to hard core D&D players who want to maximize their role playing. Hero Forge, which started as a kickstarted campaign a few months ago, is a website that will allow you to custom design...

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Cross-Realm groups can now queue for Ashran!

One of my guild-mates pointed this out to me today, something I missed in all the frenzy to actually log on to WoW:"Cross-realm groups are now able to enter Ashran together"That has literally made my day. Since I run with TBT half of our group is on a different server. I'm really looking forward to queuing for Ashran with TBT.http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/16561637/603-hotfixes-december-2-12-2-2...

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The Raid that never was...

Today was supposed to be the day that Highmaul, the first raid in Warlords of Draenor, opened up. Our group was going to down the first 3 bosses and call it a night... at least that was the plan. Instead, Kel'Thuzad went down. It appears to have been the result of another DDoS attack as well as an issue with Blizzards' Authentication servers that affected multiple realms. The result was that, instead of logging in and raiding at 8 PM Pacific...

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Bonemaw Workaround (Shadowmoon Burial Grounds Heroic)

I just finished running Shadowmoon Burial Grounds on Heroic difficulty. I'm not going to write a full guide to each dungeon, because frankly better people than I have already done so, but we did figure something out that works quite well against this boss. Bonemaw during the Inhale phase A quick overview of Bonemaw: He basically has two mechanics that you need to worry about. The first is Body Slam, which will do some damage and knock players...

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Changes

With the coming of Warlords of Draenor, as well as some changes going on in my World of Warcraft guild and my Dungeons & Dragons group, I've decided to change some things around. Previously I ran two separate websites, one blog that was about gaming in general, and another blog that was specifically geared toward hunter pets. I have since migrated all of my hunter pet pals over to the Insanitarium, as well as the other posts about general gaming.Starting forward this blog will be about all of my gaming, technology, and general nerd culture...

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Ziri'ak

Almost everyone in my guild, when they reached the Spires of Arak, chose the Brewery Garrison Outpost, which rewards (among other things) a passive 20% increase to XP while in the zone. Pretty good deal, right? Well, maybe not. After a bit of research I chose the Trading Post building, which allows you to summon an NPC called "Honest Jim" every 10 minutes while in the Spires of Arak. What's so good about Honest Jim you might ask? Well, in addition...

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