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Wizards’ 2011 Spring Catalog Preview

June 24, 2010 by Bartoneus

I started previewing the Wizards of the Coast 2011 spring catalog with the Player’s Option: Heroes of Shadow preview I posted last week, which introduces more content for the shadow power source including the Necromancer and Hexblade classes. Next I’ll be talking about some of the other products listed in the Roleplaying Games section of the catalog.

Filed Under: Featured, News, Roleplaying Games

D&D 4e: The New Player’s Option

June 16, 2010 by Bartoneus

I was actually very surprised while looking through the Wizards Spring 2011 catalog when I stumbled across a new book coming out in March, Player’s Option: Heroes of Shadow. There are a lot of aspects to this book that are interesting, for one it is supposedly going to be a 6″x9″ and 320 page book selling for $19.95 in trade paperback format. The description for the book mentions three specific classes that it will support – Assassins, Necromancers, and Hexblades.

Filed Under: Featured, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, 4th Edition, D&D, Dungeons and Dragons, heroes of shadow, new, player's option, preview, shadow power source

Inq. of the Week: The End of Lost

May 24, 2010 by Bartoneus

As you’ve no doubt heard by now the finale of the show Lost was on last night, and since my wife and I have been big fans of the show ever since the fifth episode (we caught up on the first four within a day or two of seeing it) we were very excited to see how things would end up.

Filed Under: Inquisition of the Week, Television Tagged With: finale, Inquisition of the Week, Lost, opinion

Starcraft 2 is Finally Coming Out

May 20, 2010 by Bartoneus

Considering how much I’ve written about Starcraft and Starcraft 2 in the past, it should be a little bit surprising that I haven’t brought it up in the last few months since the official release date has been announced (7/27/10) and the beta has been ongoing since February. Well, honestly I haven’t written about it lately because I’ve been in the beta since early March and have been having the time of my life with it.

Filed Under: Editorial, Video Games Tagged With: beta, Editorial, release, starcraft 2, videogames

Contest: Twitterquest!

May 14, 2010 by Bartoneus

Here’s how to enter Twitterquest: Submit your best adventure pitch to us in 127 characters or fewer via Twitter, Facebook, or a comment here on this post. Please only one entry per person per venue/site, so you yourself can submit three unique ideas – one on Facebook, one on Twitter, and one in a comment here.

Filed Under: Featured, Roleplaying Games

Review: “The Hidden Current” 4e Adventure Module

May 12, 2010 by Bartoneus

The Hidden Current is the first chapter of the Dark Veil Campaign arc for 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons that promises to take players from level 1 to level 30 published by Blackbyrne Publishing. Though the adventure module is a bit amateur in presentation and some of its elements, it more than makes up for that with its original ideas, good writing, and an exciting series of adventures for your players to enjoy!

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, 4th Edition, blackbyrne publishing, D&D, dark veil campaign, Dungeons and Dragons, module, Reviews, the hidden current

Inq. of the Week: Prizes and Treasures?

April 27, 2010 by Bartoneus

This week we are not posting a new poll as part of the Inquisition, instead we are looking to solve a very terrible problem which Dave and I now have. You see…we simply have too much stuff that we want to give away on this fancy-schmancy website and we aren’t entirely sure how to do it!

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week Tagged With: contest, doctor who, Inquisition of the Week, Newest Critical Hits, prizes

Rise of the Eldrazi Preview

April 21, 2010 by Bartoneus

The newest expansion set for Magic: The Gathering is going to be released in a few days and for those of you who play the game I wanted to share some of the information and spoiler cards that WotC has released. The set is called Rise of the Eldrazi, and is the third set of the Zendikar block and looks like it comes with some new rules and mechanics that set it apart from everything else that’s out there right now.

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, News Tagged With: cards, ccg, collectible, magic the gathering, new, preview, rise of the eldrazi, spoiler

Review: “The Plane Above: Secrets of the Astral Sea”

April 14, 2010 by Bartoneus

The Plane Above is the next 4th Edition D&D supplement that focuses specifically on the Astral Sea, denizens of the plane, a wide variety of locations found there, campaign ideas involving the plane and a handful of new monsters that can be found in the Astral Sea.

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, astral sea, book, D&D, dnd 4e, Dungeons and Dragons, Reviews, the plane above

Inq. of the Week: Summer Movies ’10

April 6, 2010 by Bartoneus

As it is the first week of April, and luck has it that Dave is out of town and I am writing the Inquisition, I can happily continue my yearly trend of posting an inquisition around this time asking about everyone’s favorite summer movies!

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Movies Tagged With: Inquisition of the Week, iron man 2, kick-ass, Movies, prince of persia, spring, summer, the last airbender, the losers

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    Danny works professionally as an architectural designer and serves as managing editor here at CH, which means he shares many of the duties of being an editor but without the fame and recognition. He also writes about RPGs, videogames, movies, and TV. He is married to Sucilaria, and has a personal blog at Incorrect Blitz Input. (Email Danny or follow him on Twitter).

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