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Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-03-28

March 28, 2009 by Gato the News Robot

Open Game Table: The Anthology of Roleplaying Games Blogs is out now.  Go buy it! d6 Damage… err, speakers WTF D&D, 1st Edition Monster Manual Newest Character Builder update available, including PHB2 data, and fixes retraining/power swap issues. Heaven is Funky Moose coming to Rock Band 2 PHB2 errata already at Wizards. (Thanks, newbiedm) D&D, […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits Tagged With: twitter

Preview: Ranged Warlord

March 27, 2009 by Bartoneus

When preview material for the 4th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons first started to come out, what excited me the most was probably the addition of the Warlord class. The Races & Monsters preview book described the class alongside pictures of armored warriors covered in weapons (both melee and ranged). When 4e was finally released the Warlord class was extremely interesting but it completely lacked that “Weapons Master” feel…

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Comics, Featured, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Tagged With: 4th Edition, D&D, Dungeons and Dragons, martial power, ranged warlord, roleplaying, Roleplaying Games

The 1-day adventure challenge: Blood Bowl/D&D 4e Mashup!

March 26, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Introduction (March 26th 5h00PM) Okay, here’s the thing. I’m short on time and my friends are coming over to play a 4e game using the new PHB2 classes tomorrow night. I’ll have time to work on it tomorrow but I’m throwing my thoughts here as ideas arrive. The party will be made of three 2nd […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, player's handbook 2

Pain of Campaigning: Actually Planning

March 25, 2009 by The Main Event

After a long hiatus of actively DMing, I was roused from my gaming slumber. The results are a bit unusual and probably not going to be to everyone’s liking, but after droves and droves of articles detailing how to run games, I figure I’d do an article of my current work in progress: XIX.

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Pain of Publication, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: campaign

DM Chronicles, Session 12: Blind and Bloodied Dungeon Crawling, Part 2

March 25, 2009 by The Chatty DM

See part 1 here. With two PCs either vaporized or teleported away to the gods knew where, the remaining 4 PCs (Fizban the Wizard, Naquist the Cleric, Bjerm the Fighter and Takeo the Warlord) entered the room hidden behind the black velvet curtains. They had their eyes firmly fixed on the wall ahead, were blindfolded […]

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

YouTube Tuesday: Hitler’s Locust Edition

March 24, 2009 by Dave

He puts all other tyrranical game masters to shame.

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Humor, Roleplaying Games, YouTube Tuesday Tagged With: battletech

Open Game Table Vol. 1: Now Available!

March 23, 2009 by Dave

Open Game Table, the Anthology of RPG Blogs, has finally been released for your purchasing. Aside from containg an article from our very own The Main Event, I worked heavily with Jonathan Jacobs in getting it edited. Plus at the end, a page written by yours truly about the origin of the RPG Bloggers Network, […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: anthology, open game table, rpg bloggers

The Chatty Den Mother

March 23, 2009 by The Chatty DM

It started as a Twitter discussion. While I was home with my recuperating son, I twittered as a joke that I could write a Stay at Home Mom blog. I jokingly called myself a Chatty Den Mother. Then some of my readers riffed on the concept, saying it would be some kind of Guardian monsters.  The […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e

Inq. of the Week: Worldwide D&D Game Day

March 23, 2009 by Dave

Last Saturday was Worldwide D&D Game Day, showcasing four of the classes of PHB2 (but only one of the races for some reason) as Paragon PCs sliced their way through One Dark Night in Weeping Briar. I was there, how about you?

Filed Under: Featured, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, dndgd, PHB2, wwdndgd

DM Chronicles, Session 12: Blind and Bloodied Dungeon Crawling, Part 1

March 22, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Previously in Chatty’s Game: Our heroes entered the Well of Demon.  After dispatching some underdark predators, the party faced some gnolls and had no trouble dealing with them.  They found the wayward Dire Boar they were looking for but were having trouble calming the pain-crazed creature that had been tortured by the sadistic gnolls. We […]

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

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