Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-09-12
- DMG2 and Revenge of the Giants have been released into the wild
- Revamped Dead Gentlemen site is up, with new videos
- A rough take on the One Ring as a D&D 4E artifact (via @wordwill)
- FIVE DRAGONS and DAMN FINE PI on sale now (via @BerinKinsman)
- Apply to be a beta tester for the Settlers of Catan iPhone app
- WOTC has a revised Fortress of the Yuan-Ti to incorporate into 4th Edition. (via @RPGHub)
- Read about Chatty DM’s marriage of 4e’s encounters and Mouse Guard’s complication design (with some 5×5 too)
- Warner Bros. Restructures DC Comics (via @CBR)
- Read Robin Laws on exposition and interactivity in RPGs (vital stuff in here, people) (via @wordwill)
- Interview with Beatles: Rock Band lead designer Chris Foster
- Here’s an article Monte Cook wrote for the Escapist on the early days of rpgs. (via @MonteJCook)
- EVERYTHING you need to know about Marvel/Disney and DC Entertainment (via @Comixace)
- The Bruce Campbell Watch 2009
- The 4 things gamers need to know about Apple’s Rock ‘n’ Roll keynote (via @offworld)
- Assassin Heroic Tier class up (DDI Sub Required) Shadow Striker that uses “Hexes” as their powers and has two guilds
- 4e NPC Generator (via @gnomestew)
- A bardic revolutionary A would-be demigod A mad mutation A champion of the people An unyielding ruler (via @unclebear)
- Fantasy Football vs. D&D (via @profpope)
- One Bad Egg to go dark, cites difficulty in the 3p 4e market and low sales
GATO the News Robot collects all the updates on our Twitter Feed and collects them into a weekly post. He also has metal joints.



