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by Dave
Dave Arneson, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, passed away on April 7th at the age of 61.
While Gygax was eventually given much of the credit for the initial creation of D&D, Arneson’s camapign setting Blackmoor would shape the paradigm of D&D worlds, forming the basis of the D&D campaign settings, which have incalculable influence on video game worlds and fantasy novels.
It seems I see people talking about my alter ego a lot lately. Not that I mind at all, I mean who doesn’t like to see his name or alias turn up stuff on Google? Well this week, I’ve made an appearance on two websites. First, last Tuesday night I was invited to participate in […]
As someone told me earlier today, back to our original programming! With my last mini-campaign done and completed, I’m getting ready to start playing my new homebrewed campaign centered around the Primal Dungeon and The City Within. One of the key challenges that I’ve found with campaigns with an overarching story arc is that I […]
I won’t comment much on Wizards’ decision to pull PDF from 3rd party vendors, many others, more apt at ranting or having a better perspective than me, have already done so. I’ve stopped trying to understand WotC’s business practices and I do like any prudent customer’s does, if it’s a good product, I’ll buy […]
by Bartoneus
Last week The Main Event posted an Inquisition on a topic that I love to discuss, power creep in 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons. With people voting on which parts of the PHB2 they thought most displayed power creep, 42% of you actually don’t think there’s much power creep in the book at all! In […]
by Dave
While I’m a big proponent of open source and creative commons, I’ve understood past efforts to protect intellectual property. Shutting down the power card sites was unfortunate to those of us who found them to be a big aid at the table, but there were many good reasons not to open the door to all sorts of legal challenges later. But shutting down PDF sales with almost no notice and taking them inhouse? It just doesn’t seem to add up. Especially since there’s no alternative in place to buy them.
See part 1 here. Anti-climatic Finale After the Gnoll lieutenant’s infernal challenge, the party surveyed the room for threats. The room was two-tiered. On the ground floor was a great minotaur idol sitting behind a boiling cauldron from which noxious fumes emerged. A mezzanine was accessible by a short set of stairs. On the mezzanine […]
Well, the anthology that my adventure will appear in was announced . Goodman Games will be publishing an anthology of D&D 4e side adventures that DMs can insert when the PCs must travel from one point to the next in their adventure. It will be called From Here to There. The anthology will feature 9 […]
Previously in Chatty’s game: Our heroes faced the second and third test of Baphomet, dodging magical mirrors, exploding skeletons, pools of blood and mechanical minotaurs to recover the relic keys needed to open the complex’s Inner Sanctum. Only one remains and saving the last two slaves will be within their grasps. Last Friday was to […]
Battlestar Galactica icons for Mac OS X (thanks, NukeHavoc) April Editorial Calendar has all kinds of interesting things, including PHB3 tidbits WotC’s first April Fool’s joke: “The Missing Delve” includes Flumph stats and “Rawr, I’m a monster” attack Second one: “Witchalok” class from Penny Arcade. Witchalok class totally puts my Ninja class to shame. Similar […]
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