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Sunburn is the Least of Your Worries
Posted by Chris Sims on July 29, 2010 · 17 Comments
At Gen Con this year, I’m running a few D&D game sessions set in Athas. This Dark Sun game, known affectionately as Welcome to Dark Sun, B!#@&s!, is a version of the campaign opener for my Dark Sun playtest campaign that started when I still worked for Wizards. It’s still going strong. I’ve been making pregenerated characters, refining my encounters, and having a good time. I’m showing my work and, well, here it is.
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Sunburn is the Least of Your Worries
Posted by Chris Sims on July 29, 2010 · 17 Comments
At Gen Con this year, I’m running a few D&D game sessions set in Athas. This Dark Sun game, known affectionately as Welcome to Dark Sun, B!#@&s!, is a version of the campaign opener for my Dark Sun playtest campaign that started when I still worked for Wizards. It’s still going strong. I’ve been making pregenerated characters, refining my encounters, and having a good time. I’m showing my work and, well, here it is.
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Sunburn is the Least of Your Worries
Posted by Chris Sims on July 29, 2010 · 17 Comments
At Gen Con this year, I’m running a few D&D game sessions set in Athas. This Dark Sun game, known affectionately as Welcome to Dark Sun, B!#@&s!, is a version of the campaign opener for my Dark Sun playtest campaign that started when I still worked for Wizards. It’s still going strong. I’ve been making pregenerated characters, refining my encounters, and having a good time. I’m showing my work and, well, here it is.
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San Diego Comic-Con 2010 Sunday
Posted by Logan Bonner on July 26, 2010 · 1 Comment
The final day, including the Archaia Studios: Jim Henson panel, Spotlight on Dennis O’Neil, the exhibit hall, and some more photographs.
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Movie Review: “Inception”
Posted by Bartoneus on July 16, 2010 · 4 Comments
Inception is a wildly entertaining summer blockbuster wrapped in the packaging of a sleeper hit science fiction thriller/heist film. All of the comparisons of this movie to films such as The Matrix and Blade Runner are well deserved but fall short of the deeply involving experience that Inception provides the viewer. The film excels due to the stunning combination of well executed directing, inspired writing, spot on acting, and seamless production.
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Chatty’s Gen Con 2010 Schedule
Posted by ChattyDM on July 30, 2010 · Leave a Comment
This is Chatty’s official Gen Con schedule so you can track him down and tell him about your campaign… he reserves the right to cut you off and tell you about his!
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Chatty’s Gen Con 2010 Schedule
This is Chatty’s official Gen Con schedule so you can track him down and tell him about your campaign… he reserves the right to cut you off and tell you about his!
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Sunburn is the Least of Your Worries
At Gen Con this year, I’m running a few D&D game sessions set in Athas. This Dark Sun game, known affectionately as Welcome to Dark Sun, B!#@&s!, is a version of the campaign opener for my Dark Sun playtest campaign that started when I still worked for Wizards. It’s still going strong. I’ve been making pregenerated characters, refining my encounters, and having a good time. I’m showing my work and, well, here it is.
[Read the full story]Mouse Guard Chronicles, Session 2, Players’ Turn: The Spurce Connection
The successful but banged-up patrol hobbled back to Lockhaven to recuperate from their injuries under the ministrations of the Guard’s healers. On their way, they stumbled upon 2 surviving Scent thugs caught in the Flashflood and Jasper ran to their help, rescuing the Garrow the Merchant and the huge Thug otherwise known as The Big Cheese.
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San Diego Comic-Con 2010 Sunday
The final day, including the Archaia Studios: Jim Henson panel, Spotlight on Dennis O’Neil, the exhibit hall, and some more photographs.
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San Diego Comic-Con 2010 Saturday
When you go to Comic-Con, you’ll want to spend some time in Hall H, the giant room where stars come to talk about huge Hollywood projects and show off the biggest stars at the show. This year, I went all day Saturday. Coverage of the Warner Bros, Universal, and Marvel studio panels, as well as one of the most unfortunate events to hit Comic-Con.
[Read the full story]Mouse Guard Chronicles, Session 2, GM’s Turn: Scented Storms
The Patrol left port Sumac with a shipping of Scent chemical with the firm intention of locating the breach in the northern border and sealing it up before more predators entered the territory. Before they could find it, they were waylaid by a group of thuggish mice who wanted to get their paws on their shipment of powder and learn the whereabout of other Scent-laying patrols.
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Last Day to Vote in the Ennies / GenCon Contest Winners
As I write this, there’s only a few hours left to vote for Critical Hits for Best Blog of the 2010 Ennies. We would really appreciate your support voting us as #1 and telling your friends to vote for us as well. When the clock ticks over to midnight EST tonight after Sunday, July 25th, it’ll be too late, so please don’t delay any more, no matter who you’re voting for. And in other Gen Con news, we’ve selected our winners in our Gen Con contest.
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San Diego Comic-Con 2010 Friday
This day was a little less busy, with fewer panels and a little more wandering in the exhibit hall. IDW/Hasbro tie-in comics, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Batman: Under the Red Hood and other DC animated features.
[Read the full story]Critical Bits for the week ending 2010-07-25
Need a badge for GenCon? Not going to GenCon but looking for some prizes? Check out our contest: http://bit.ly/bLJjFR # RT @FFGames: “…centuries and even thousands of years seemed recorded in its dim and greenish surface…” – H.P. Lovecraft http://bit.ly/cCIY6L # Diana Jones Award Shortlist: Boardgamegeek (!), Chaos in the Old World, Kagematsu, Montsegur 1244 [...]
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San Diego Comic-Con 2010 Thursday and w00tstock 2.4
“Spark of Imagination” panel, The Red vs. Blue Infiltration, Robert Kirkman, and a guest-filled wootstock.
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Reviews
Inception is a wildly entertaining summer blockbuster wrapped in the packaging of a sleeper hit science fiction thriller/heist film. All of the comparisons of this movie to films such as The Matrix and Blade Runner are well deserved but fall short of the deeply involving experience that Inception provides the viewer. The film excels due to the stunning combination of well executed directing, inspired writing, spot on acting, and seamless production.
I’m here to report as a Fiasco player. I played with four other veteran gamers, a few among us industry pros. Logan Bonner got us together and learned the rules with us. For the record, I have read on bits of the Fiasco rules, so this report is purely experiential and relies heavily on my memory of events. I’m also trying out a Chatty DM style post for a change.
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Musings of the Chatty DM
Chatty’s Gen Con 2010 Schedule
This is Chatty’s official Gen Con schedule so you can track him down and tell him about your campaign… he reserves the right to cut you off and tell you about his!
Mouse Guard Chronicles, Session 2, Players’ Turn: The Spurce Connection
The successful but banged-up patrol hobbled back to Lockhaven to recuperate from their injuries under the ministrations of the Guard’s healers. On their way, they stumbled upon 2 surviving Scent thugs caught in the Flashflood and Jasper ran to their help, rescuing the Garrow the Merchant and the huge Thug otherwise known as The Big Cheese.
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