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Preview: Magic the Gathering – Planechase

September 3, 2009 by Bartoneus

While at GenCon this year I got to sit down and play a preview game of the new Magic the Gathering variation called Planechase that Wizards of the Coast is releasing September 4th. Like MtG except there is always one plane in play that drastically changes one or more aspects of the game.

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, News, Reviews Tagged With: card game, gencon 2009, magic the gathering, mtg plane chase, planechase, preview, Reviews

Old School Geekout: The Order of the Grappling Hook, Part 2

September 2, 2009 by The Chatty DM

This is a retelling of my recent Sword & Wizardry during a day of gaming with my friends. See part 1 here. Descent into the Depths of Level 1 As we set up for the game, we took a bunch of Hero Clix minis to act as our miniatures to represent marching order and determine […]

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Sword and Wizardry

The Inner Half-Orc versus The Retro-Clone

September 1, 2009 by guest

(PM is a good friend of mine and while our interest in gaming and movies intersect, we have not roleplayed all that often together.  Here’s one of his rare, and always very entertaining posts about his experience as a closet RPG geek -ChattyDM) Where is it? I’m sure it was around here somewhere… I hear […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Player Psychology, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: S&W, The Closet Half Orc

YouTube Tuesday: Well, OK, I Was The Traitor Edition

September 1, 2009 by Dave

An ad for the newest Looney Labs party game, “Are You The Traitor?” Not only has it quickly become one of my favorite games (right up there with Werewolf), I worked on it and I appear in this video. Marvel at my acting prowess of delivering two whole lines, thrill at my crazy eyes, and […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, YouTube Tuesday Tagged With: are you the traitor, looney labs, werewolf

Old School Geekout: The Order of the Grappling Hook, Part 1

August 31, 2009 by The Chatty DM

I started playing D&D with the 1st edition of AD&D way back in the first half of the 80s. I didn’t read English very well (and neither did my friends), so we ended up doing what pretty much everyone else were doing with the game: use the rules we understood and ignored/made up the rest. […]

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: S&W

Inq. of the Week: Cthulhu Who?

August 31, 2009 by Dave

I believe it is too late for me now. With each new tome I uncover, the more I find myself drawn away from my usual realm and into a realm of insanity. Are you with me?

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Tagged With: coc, cthulhu, kobold quarterly, open design, yellow sign

Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-08-29

August 29, 2009 by Gato the News Robot

Here is our podcast feed but we do not yet have an iTunes link. The first of the GenCon Seminars from the media track has been posted “How the Web Series The Guild Stays Successful” by WSJ Short Muskrat Blog Post: The Summer of 69, and Gygax and Arneson (via @muskrat_john) Nice recap of the […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits Tagged With: twitter

I Am A Liberal Gamer

August 28, 2009 by Dave

I’m a big proponent of change in game design. If something isn’t working, don’t just patch it, teardown and rebuild. This puts me in opposition to what I will respectfully call the “Conservative Gamer” contingent, who prefer that games preserve much of their makeup from edition to edition. But, that’s not for me. I prefer to see innovation in game design.

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Critical Threats, Editorial, Roleplaying Games, Video Games Tagged With: 4e, fallout 3, game design, warhammer fantasy roleplay

Friday Chat: The Issue(s) of Combat length in D&D 4e

August 28, 2009 by The Chatty DM

This post is inspired bu a Twitter discussions I had last week. As my player level up right into paragon level,  I noticed that the length of combat in D&D 4e kept increasing.  We often break the 90 minutes point  for ‘normal’ encounters and massive boss-level fights will easily eat up most of our 3 […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Player Psychology, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, advice, combat, Friday Chat

GenCon 2009: High Level D&D Seminar

August 26, 2009 by Bartoneus

While at GenCon this year there were many events and seminars which I wanted to attend, but one of the seminars that I really didn’t want to miss was the High Level D&D one hosted by Bruce Cordell and Stephen Schubert from Wizards of the Coast.

Filed Under: Featured, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 2009, 4e, 4th Edition, dnd, Dungeons & Dragons, gen con, gencon, high level, roleplaying game, seminar, tabletop, wizards of the coast, wotc

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