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Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-05-09

May 9, 2009 by Gato the News Robot

Green Ronin to publish RPG based on Bioware’s Dragon Age: Origins Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film as ‘Fun, Watchable’ (Onion video) Best worst Star Trek parodies All of BoingBoing Gadget’s posts on Star Trek are worthwhile Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister Changes to D&DI updates, and next update will include Hybrid classes and the […]

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Being a Good New Player

May 9, 2009 by The Main Event

So often the focus of my articles is DMing. However, in a few short weeks I will be doing something unusual: joining The Game’s regular D&D game. I’m going to run through the considerations of making a character for a game that has been run for a considerable time (the party is starting off paragon level).

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Tagged With: character background, D&D, DM, dnd, Dungeons and Dragons, player, roleplaying games, Roleplaying Games

Scarrport: Get Some Steampunk in your 4e

May 8, 2009 by Dave

There’s a lot to like about Scarrport: City of Secrets, the new setting book from Reality Deviant Productions. What really makes it stand out to me are the rules for Steampunk-style items in your 4e game. By incorporating these kind of items, it adds a different genre to 4e, instead of just being another setting using the same D&D elements.

Filed Under: Featured, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, scarrport, steampunk

Old School, New School and Gygaxian Naturalism (or not)

May 7, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Here’s the post that I promised wouldn’t write since it could be construed as a comment bait.  However, since I spent 2 hours reading arguments and trying to define some fairly controversial terms, I’m not going to waste that!  No siree! Now, just so we’re clear on this, I’m interested to read your thoughts and […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Debate, Gygaxian Naturalism, new school, old school, world building

One Page Contest Final Update: Less than one week left

May 7, 2009 by The Chatty DM

We’re into week 3 of the One Page Dungeon contest and things are shaping up for some fierce competition!   With about 45 entries so far, we’ve received a very wide variety of ‘dungeons’, from the old-school classic to the really really out there. But it’s not too late for those that thrive on tight […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: contest, one page dungeon

Adventure Prep: The City Adventure

May 6, 2009 by The Chatty DM

For my next D&D session (which is on Friday next week), I’ve decided to go for a city-based adventure. We’ve played 3 sessions into our new Primal/Within campaign and all those were focused on the Dungeon part of the setting and very little on the city (except to interact with Quest giving NPCs). I think […]

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: City Adventures, Primal/Within, Tropes, world building

Monster Manual 2 Spoilers!

May 6, 2009 by Bartoneus

Wizards of the Coast is releasing some spoilers today for the Monster Manual 2 through various sources, one of which is right here! I believe the deal is that various sources will be sneak previewing different monsters, and you should be able to find the stat blocks for each of these monsters over at the D&D Facebook page.

Filed Under: Featured, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, D&D, dnd, monster manual 2, preview, roleplaying games, Roleplaying Games, shadar kai, sneak peak, spoiler

YouTube Tuesday: The Preciousss Edition

May 5, 2009 by Dave

Above is the trailer for The Hunt for Gollum, a 40 minute fan-made prequel to the Lord of the Rings movies, and it looks pretty darn good. If you like the trailer, you can watch the full thing only online. I haven’t gotten a chance to see the whole thing through myself, but I can’t […]

Filed Under: Movies, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, YouTube Tuesday Tagged With: gollum, lord of the rings, rangers, smeagul is your friend, strider is a badass

Primal/Within Chronicles: The Font of Sorrows, Session 2 Part 2

May 4, 2009 by The Chatty DM

See part 1, here. City Interlude After having beaten the undead prisoner-guardians of the Font of Sorrows and subduing ‘Spurt’ the enchanted Bulette, our heroes returned to town to complete their rest and return Spurt to its owner. The mad Wizard was relieved to recover his prized pet, although bitterly disappointed to see all the […]

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, Chatty's 2008-2009 campaign, Megadungeon, Primal/Within, Tropes

Inq. of the Week: The Stars are Warring?

May 4, 2009 by Bartoneus

It happens to be May the 4th, and a Monday, so I couldn’t let this go by without doing a Star Wars based inquisition of the week. With what could possibly be one of the corniest geek habits of using dates to make inside jokes, “May the 4th be with you” is apparently something that isn’t going away anytime soon. It occured to me that we have never done a poll about the Star Wars movies, which I am correcting today.

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Movies, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre

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