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DM Chronicles: Session 10 Fight Night! Part 1

February 18, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Previously in Chatty’s game: Our heroes discover that they have been setup to be ambushed by the duergar.  Planning to catch the Grey dwarves at their own game, they partially succeeded in turning the tables but had to face a brood of Kruthiks (Think hive mind insects with knife-shape claws). Our stalwart champions reached the […]

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

Comic to Movie: Lost in Adaptation

February 18, 2009 by Bartoneus

Not long ago I was quite excited to see the movie adapted from the very good comic book, Wanted.  This excitement was spurned by a few non comic readers saying that the movie was great, and so I figured if they thought the movie was awesome then surely it must be a decent movie no […]

Filed Under: Anime, Comics, Editorial, Movies Tagged With: comic, comic books, cowboy beebop, movie, Reviews, wanted, watchmen

YouTube Tuesday: City 17 Edition

February 17, 2009 by Dave

Since I was sent it no less than 3 times this week, here’s the Half-Life 2 fan movie that everyone’s talking about. It’s well done, but perhaps more importantly, it shows that good quality stuff can now be made for as cheap as $500.

Filed Under: Movies, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, Video Games, YouTube Tuesday Tagged With: half-life, half-life 2

So You Wanna Write a RPG Blog? Post-Scriptum: The Crash

February 16, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Wanting to get back on the blogging wagon, I decided to write a small addendum to this series.  It won’t break new ground but it may help some see a bit of the darker side of blogging. A few months ago in the early throes of one of the most powerful creative surges I had […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: RPG blog primer

Inq. of the Week: 4th Edition Books?

February 16, 2009 by Bartoneus

I began to wonder how many people have bought these books. This led me back to a thought I had when 4E first came out, with the shift of magic items to the Player’s Handbook it became much less important for players that aren’t DMs to buy the Dungeon Master’s Guide and the Monster Manual, and back then I wondered how many people bought all three anyway. These curiosities have now combined into this poll!

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, books, D&D, dnd, dnd4e, Dungeons and Dragons, Inquisition of the Week

The Tome (Show) of Dragons

February 16, 2009 by Dave

Just a quick note: I was honored to be a guest of The Tome Show with Jeff, as well as with Quinn of At-Will. We talked about the Draconomicon, chapter by chapter. In case you didn’t get enough information from our review (or you just want to hear my sexy voice talk about beating up […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: draconomicon

Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-02-14

February 14, 2009 by Gato the News Robot

Holy crap, I don’t play Vampire or any White Wolf games regularly, but this looks amazing “All the mechanics actually felt like they were part of the same game…allowing more time for tactics and bad jokes.” 1st Dominion Expansion to contain everything you need to play (i.e. treasures and kingdoms)  Soon, you can die of […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits Tagged With: twitter

Pain of Campaigning VIII: What About the Bad Guys?

February 11, 2009 by The Main Event

Looking at the Campaigning Inquisition, I saw that the vast majority of people favor heroic or at least characters that have the potential to be heroes. Considering the nature of the D&D beast, this makes sense, but I worry that people may be hesitant to try one of the most enjoyable modes of D&D: playing as one of the bad guys.

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Pain of Publication, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: campaign, D&D, dnd, Dungeons and Dragons, evil, pain of campaigning, villain

Inq. of the Week: Con Get Some

February 10, 2009 by Dave

I’m an old hand at the convention scene, but how about you? I’m not talking about a convention you’ve attended for work (though there may be some overlap), I’m talking about a con you’ve gone to for fun. Gaming, science fiction, comics, Star Trek, anime, whatever you like.

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week Tagged With: conventions

Review: “Dungeon Delve”

February 8, 2009 by Dave

It’s not often that I review a book without having read it cover to cover- this may be the first, in fact. But Dungeon Delve is a product that doesn’t require much explanation, and should be easy to figure out if this is something you need or not. The book’s concept is simple. 30 short […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, dungeon delve

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