When WotC announced that the venerable Dragon and Dungeon magazines were becoming digital-only offerings, the reaction was controversial. The magazines are only available in PDF, and to subscribers of the D&D Insider service. There is still no way to get the magazines without a subscription to the whole package of DDI. Not too long after the details shook out it was revealed that some of the content would be reprinted in Annuals. Dragon Magazine Annual is the first of these collections.
Critical Hits Podcast #13: Interview with Andy Collins and Bruce Cordell
At GenCon 2009, we talked with Andy Collins and Bruce Cordell, two of the design team at Wizards of the Coast. We talk about monks kicking butt, how power sources are primarily a story invention, psionics psionics psionics, what races make good psionic characters, and more. We also try and get them to declare that […]
YouTube Tuesday: Elite Gamemaster Edition
In honor of meeting Doug Douglason this past weekend, I present to you a classic video called “Fear of Girls.” If it tickled your fancy (or something else) then check out the sequels and more in their YouTube channel.
GenCon 2009: 4e Extravaganza (with Photos)
On Friday at GenCon, we attended the 4e Extravaganza, which was where the new setting was announced (which I’m sure everyone has heard by now is Dark Sun). However, there were a number of other products showcased, some new, some already known, and a few big surprises.
GenCon 4e Preview: The Assassin
A sort of stealth promotion is going here at GenCon from WotC, where if you sign up for D&D Insider (or re-up your subscription) you receive a bound book that contains an 11th level Halfling Assassin (with the Obsidian Stalker paragon path). It also contains an adventure you can use him in, Crown of the […]
Live from GenCon
We have arrived at our GenCon hotel. While we’ll make every effort to put a few posts up as the convention goes on, stealing away enough time to write a post can be difficult. If you want up to the minute updates from us, we recommend following @CriticalHits twitter account, my twitter account (@DaveTheGame), and […]
Inq. of the Week: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
I am going to subject you all to another question about what you’d like to see here, but focused on our immediate future. These answers will help us to determine where we should spend our time and energy at GenCon. While we already have a packed schedule (much of which I will lay out below), the effort we spend on write-ups of particular subjects will depend on what you, the audience want to see.
YouTube Tuesday: I Am Super Lucky Golden Iron Man Edition
Test animation for an Iron Man anime, the final of which is to be written by Warren Ellis. Below, a similar test animation for the Wolverine anime, also to be written by Ellis, but that doesn’t look nearly as good.
Time is running out to vote for Critical Hits! Voting ends Saturday Night!
You only have until the end of Saturday, 8/1 to vote for us in the 2009 Ennie Awards for Best Website. (Remember, you don’t need to vote for any other category if you don’t want to, and 1 is best!) We just reached 1500 RSS feed subscribers today, and so if we got all of […]
Hands On: Monster Builder Beta
The Monster Builder was released today to DDI subscribers, allowing us to build our own monsters for 4e. Of course, we could already do that… through Asmor’s Monster Maker, the Dungeonmastering Tools, or WotC’s own bonus tools utility. So what does the new software bring to the table?
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