Critical Hits

Everything tabletop gaming since 2005

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In many games there is the concept of a “Critical Hit”, literally, a hit that is critical (in that it causes severe damage). In Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition, a Critical Hit is scored by rolling a “natural 20” on a die, which causes maximum damage and often extra damage from magic. In World of Warcraft, your equipment and statistics generate a percentage of the time when you will deal a critical hit, causing extra damage. And so on.

Being the gamers that we are, we believe that this concept often shows up in life, and not just when you accidentally hit your cousin in the crotch with a paintball. There are games, comics, and movies that are Critical Hits. They are also hits with the critics (us).

Critical Hits is devoted to bringing you information on everything we view is a critical hit. We are the Journal of Gamer Culture, covering everything of importance to role playing (and other) gamers everywhere. We update every weekday and primarily cover rpgs, but also board games, video games, comic books, movies, Science Fiction & Fantasy novels, and whatever else strikes our fancy.

The staff of Critical Hits pride themselves on running an independent, self-made operation. We don’t have a corporate sponsor telling us what to say or cover, nor did we start Critical Hits as part of a marketing effort (though we do admit that we like free stuff). We take advertising through an ad network to help us pay for convention trips and products to review, but at no point do the sponsors ever tell us what to say. When we post, it’s because we wanted to tell you about it.

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BEST OF

After almost four years of blogging, we’ve built up well over a thousand posts. Here are some we think you should check out.

Features

Occasionally, we have content that is best served by being front and center on the site, instead of being in a post. Timeless articles that do well in being referenced often fall into this category. So, we have created the following Features:

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Roleplaying Game Advice

We try to mix in advice about your playing and running your RPGs alongside cutting edge news coverage. Here are some of our favorites:

Convention Coverage

We’ve covered a number of conventions as press. Though we’re a completely independant operation (and have to pay our own way out of pocket), we do our best to get to as many conventions that interest us as possible and report back all the news to you, the reader.

Anniversaries

Every year, we round up our most popular posts, as well as giving various statistics on site traffic. To date, we have been running for over 3 years, and posted the following:

And on the occasion of our 1000th post, we collected some of our favorite posts:

Miscellaneous Favorites

Have anything you want to tell us? Or would you like to join the Critical Hits team? Drop us a line.

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All articles and comments posted posted on the site (but not the products for sale) are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. References to trademarks and copywritten material are included for review and commentary use only and are not intended as any kind of challenge.
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Critical Hits staff can be reached via the contact information on their individual staff pages and in their articles. If you want to reach our senior staff, email staff @ critical-hits.com. We get sent a lot of email, so we can't promise we'll be able to respond to everything.

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