I am happy to announce a new series of columns here at Critical-Hits, authored by myself. It represents something we’ve never tried doing here before, coupled with a project that I’m quite excited about, and I hope you will be too.
Interview: Joshua Stevens of Open Design
Open Design is the Wolfgang Baur-led studio effort for designing roleplaying game adventures, primarily for D&D. Open Design uses a unique model to make the adventures: instead of the traditional single designer or corporate team effort, Open Design uses a patronage model where anyone can contribute to a project by paying in and then weighing […]
YouTube Tuesday: Stop Motion + Lego + 8 Bit = Win
A stop-motion animation over 1500 hours in the making that has to be seen to be believed.
YouTube Tuesday: Well, OK, I Was The Traitor Edition
An ad for the newest Looney Labs party game, “Are You The Traitor?” Not only has it quickly become one of my favorite games (right up there with Werewolf), I worked on it and I appear in this video. Marvel at my acting prowess of delivering two whole lines, thrill at my crazy eyes, and […]
Inq. of the Week: Cthulhu Who?
I believe it is too late for me now. With each new tome I uncover, the more I find myself drawn away from my usual realm and into a realm of insanity. Are you with me?
I Am A Liberal Gamer
I’m a big proponent of change in game design. If something isn’t working, don’t just patch it, teardown and rebuild. This puts me in opposition to what I will respectfully call the “Conservative Gamer” contingent, who prefer that games preserve much of their makeup from edition to edition. But, that’s not for me. I prefer to see innovation in game design.
Congratulations to Obsidian Portal and Kobold Quarterly
The winners of the 2009 Ennies for Best Website, Kobold Quarterly took the silver and Obsidian Portal took the gold. Congratulations to them both: while I would have loved to have won, they both definitely deserve it. I read Kobold Quarterly whenever I get a chance, and I used Obsidian Portal extensively for my last D&D 3.5 campaign (and planning on using it more) and it really is awesome.
YouTube Tuesday: This Is Pure Nerd-nip Edition
“Do You Want To Date My Avatar”, the incredibly catchy music video by the folks at The Guild.
Critical Hits Podcast #15: Interview with Keith Baker
The last of our podcast interviews from GenCon 2009, Keith Baker, creator of Eberron, sat down to talk to us about working on the new campaign setting, how the 4e races, classes, and rules fit in to Eberron (including some great examples of re-fluffed characters to fit the setting), and about traveling the world and […]
Critical Hits Podcast #14: Interview with James Wyatt
Our informal, off-the-cuff “guerrilla” interview with James Wyatt at GenCon 2009. (We spoke to him last year as well). Joining Bartoneus and myself as interviewers was Jared from Head Injury Theater. James talks about Eberron, the art process in a WotC project, lots and lots about DMG2 (including the secret chapter name, “D&D as an indie game”), his characters, and D&D with his son.
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