Woops! Apparently Monday came and went while I was lost somewhere within the house, and so I bring you a mid-week Inquisition. The 3 people that voted in last week’s poll since Monday, you’re welcome! Last week’s involved Dave’s rampant reading of excellent webcomics and making terrible family-puns, where he asked which of the classic […]
Archives for March 2008
This Just in… Pathfinder to remain 3.5
From the Paizo Newswire: Pathfinder™ to continue under the 3.5 rules. Tuesday, March 19th, 2008 Paizo Publishing today unveiled the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, a tabletop fantasy roleplaying game that will serve as the anchor for the company’s popular line of Pathfinder adventures, sourcebooks, and campaigns. Today marks the beginning of a year-long Open Playtest of […]
DM Chronicles, Session 13: Of Moons and Xanathos Railroads, Part 1
This post is part of a series that chronicles our current D&D 3.5 campaign. To say that last Friday’s game wasn’t intense would be a bald faced lie… it just wasn’t intense for the reasons I planned for. This time around I won’t go into details of our actual story. First because it get so […]
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
RIP, Mr. Clarke. That leaves Ray Bradbury the last surviving Science Fiction grandmaster…
FL1: Panhandle of the Lost
DM: Alright, so tonight’s module is a solo thing, but you’ll meet up with other characters later. What are you playing? Player: I’ve got this Grad Student/Game Designer. Oh, and he just took a level of Web Designer for the extra income score. DM: That’ll come in handy for this one. OK, so: “You’ve been […]
YouTube of the Week: Saul Wars Edition
Not Dead… but not all that well either…
This post is going to get a bit personal feel free to skip… 🙂 As you may have noticed, the flow of posts has slowed down in the last few weeks. I’m dealing with a certain amount of stress-induced anxiety related to both my job and the blog (The family and my physical health are […]
Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: The Crowning Moment of a Character
As I reading through the recent changes on TVtropes.org, I stumbled upon a Trope whose application to RPGs is as simple as it is brilliant: Crowning Moment Of Awesome The moment in a show when a character does something for which they will be remembered forever, winning for them the eternal loyalty of fans. While […]
Nerd News Roundup Thingie-majig
I would like to apologize for our absence over the last few days, I have been busy with moving and working on our new house, while Dave is on a quick vacation to Florida. We’ve neglected you, and for that there will be many red-hot pokers, you can count on that! I’ve been meaning to […]
Ending a Campaign: a Few Tips
It’s no secret that with the advent of the next edition of D&D, I have endings on the mind. While I’ve still got to make my final decision to adopt 4e upon reading the new Core books over the summer, chances are we are going to go the 4e way. I know many others are […]
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