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New Edition of “Dungeons & Dragons” Announced

January 9, 2012 by Dave

This morning, in the New York Times, it was announced that Wizards of the Coast is working on the new edition of Dungeons & Dragons – and you can be involved.

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: breaking news, D&D

Critical Bits for the week ending 2012-01-08

January 8, 2012 by Gato the News Robot

RT @DanielSolis: And the winner of the Thousand-Year Game Design Challenge is… http://t.co/Y5IhuRLu # RT @gnomestew: Gnome Stew just launched New Year, New Game, a challenge to tabletop RPG GMs: Run a new game in 2012. http://t.co/vwxhcgQb # D&D Encounters as GMing Bootcamp on @gnomestew http://t.co/tZ6OsgoW # RT @LodestoneDavid: Purple Pawn's Top 10 Game News […]

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The Architect DM: Winging It

January 5, 2012 by Bartoneus

Let me know if this situation sounds familiar to you: You’re the DM/GM for your gaming group and you’ve just wrapped up an adventure, and you have at least a whole week until the next one. You sit down the next day, or even that very night, and start the adventure planning process. Over the next few days you stay on track but before you know it the next adventure is looming and you feel like despite your best efforts the game is still not as ready as you feel it should be.

Filed Under: Featured, Roleplaying Games, The Architect DM Tagged With: Adventure Prep, advice, architect dm, D&D, DM advice, dnd, Dungeons and Dragons, planning, preparation, roleplaying games

Everybody Kill Each Other

January 3, 2012 by Vanir

In which an evil Jedi with doilies over her eyes blows an engineer out an airlock, driving Vanir to consider the most fun way to kill his teammates. (Current contender: playing Dominion, but all the treasure cards are poisoned.)

Filed Under: Dire Flailings, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: alignment, alignment sucks, chloroform, Death, evil, good, grey area, interpersonal conflict, intraparty conflict, lawful stupid, morality, morals, murder, neutral, pvp, stabbing, swords, violence

The Real State of Dungeons & Dragons

January 2, 2012 by TorgHacker

In a nutshell, D&D started off the year in a state of confusion and concern, but has ended the year fairly strong. WotC is looking towards the future and D&D’s torch holders have done much to improve relations with their customers.

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, D&D, Dungeons and Dragons

Critical Bits for the week ending 2012-01-01

January 1, 2012 by Gato the News Robot

Evil Hat's 2012 project list includes new Dresden Files supplements, Spirit of the Century projects, and more: http://t.co/Z2h76zTc # .@rjschwalb blogs about skill challenges: either ignore them or simplify them. http://t.co/hEqT75Vq # RT @jelmore: New #dnd minis packs from WotC are showing up on Amazon: http://t.co/aUKszDAd http://t.co/M1Z3SKbv http://t.co/hKWyuwUX # RT @SlyFlourish: Great article by @rjschwalb […]

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