Edit: For those coming over from Kobold Quarterly, hi! Just a quick note to clarify that I’m not taking any donations for Kobold Love… That one will be free to see me build it and such to prove to you guys that I can produce quality material… I might ask you to buy the final […]
Archives for 2008
Review: Braid
In short: Braid is an excellent game. It successfully integrates all aspects of game making into one cohesive unit with a mature theme. Even with the $15 price tag, it is worth downloading. I read a bit about a game called Braid on Penny Arcade the other day. I tend to agree with Tycho about […]
Chatty’s Mailbag: Reader Complaint
Long time reader and one time co-contributor PM wrote me: I’m not sure I’m satisfied with your new musing schedule. A single post a day (some non-epic…) does not entertain me enough… Where are the days of multiple cascading avalanches of text!? I want my money back!! Here’s the response of our resident Customer Service […]
Chatty DM Gets Commonly Creative
As a prelude to opening Chatty Studios (don’t click yet, it will only return you here) and launching Project Kobold Love, I obtained a Creative Commons License for the whole content of my blog (See in blog’s footer). I chose the Attribution-Non Commercial Canadian license. What does that mean for people not versed in Intellectual […]
Adventure Design Workshop Seminar (GenCon 2008)
Still working through our backlog of GenCon 2008, we stopped in at the Adventure Design Seminar, which Mike Mearls moderated (say that three times fast), and also included Rich Baker, Bruce Cordell, Chris Youngs, and James Wyatt. The seminar was advertised as both talking about adventure design for D&D 4e and actually designing an adventure, […]
Nico’s Pick up D&D 4e Game
My 6 year old son Nico and 5 year old daughter Rorie are at their Granny’s for the next 3 days as both Alex and I work and school only starts on Thursday. That means that I won’t have new chapters of Nico’s Quest to share with you. I did however start a D&D 4e […]
The Unauthorized Ascension of the Drow Spy Report
This is my play report of Nicolas Logue’s Ascension of the Drow prequel Mega-Adventure. It was a free-for all, storytelling-intensive D&D 3.5 game featuring 126 players (21 tables of 6) and more than 33 GMs. Everyone was sharing the same game at the same time! It was held at Gen Con and ran from 7h00 […]
Critical Hits Podcast #11: True Dungeon Actual Play
During GenCon 2008, post-Ennies, I ran off to a far away hotel to play in my very first session of True Dungeon. No photography is allowed inside the game itself, but I smuggled in my trusty voice recorder inside my shirt pocket to record the whole thing as a bit of guerrilla reporting. It’s hard […]
Epic Laundry Basket: 4e Vancian Wizards!
Want Vancian Magic in 4e? Here’s how I would do it: Leave at Will-Power as is (for fun purposes). Make level 1 and 2 daily spells into level 3 encounter spells. Shift the whole power list like that to have new spells at every 2 levels. Give level 1 Wizard access to 5 level 1 […]
Critical Hits Podcast #10: Entropia Universe
Before GenCon 2008, we were contacted to check out the Entropia Universe booth during the show. There, we met with John Bates of Mindark, who explained to us all about Entropia Universe, the online game/virtual world. Bartoneus and I went into the interview knowing almost nothing about it, but we both agreed afterward that it’s […]
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