Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-05-30
- Spiel Des Jahres nominees announced. A great bunch in the nominees! (Not so excited about the recommended titles)
- The Old School determiner is awesome.
- The very last “Lying in the Gutters” column by Rich Johnston but he says to check here.
- Fear and Loathing: The Board Game
- Wil Wheaton: “in which i find something unexpected during a Journey Through The Silver Caves”
- Kalashtar info: they’re in the Eberron Player’s Guide, and they have “Telepathy 5″ as a language
- Tetris: Constructions Since 1985
- An interesting amalgam of RPG hobby/industry twitterfeeds
- DDI Playtest: Hybrid Characters (updated, and now with PHB2 classes)
- I’m pretty sure the movie “Gamer” will be nothing like “The Gamers” or even “Gamers”
- Open Design Podcast launches, featuring Skip Williams, Monte Cook, Wolfgang Baur, Jeff Grub, and more
- Brett Gilbert applies John Maeda’s “The Laws of Simplicty” to game design (Thanks, Boardgamenews)
- Website Category still lacking in ENnie entries. Get on it, RPG Bloggers! (Submission window closes June 1)
GATO the News Robot collects all the updates on our Twitter Feed and collects them into a weekly post. He also has metal joints.



