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Inq. of the Week: PHB2 Races!

January 27, 2009 by Dave

As an easy followup, and because I’ve been dealing with D&D races between my Book of Races review and Races feature, I’m asking: which of the PHB2 races are you most excited about?

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, races

D&D Character Builder is Live

January 27, 2009 by Dave

You can now generate characters of all 30 levels using the newly updated Character Builder if you’re a D&DI subscriber. Otherwise, you can still download the level 1-3 trial version. I’m still figuring out the details of how many computers I can install it on from the announcement thread on the WotC forums. The interface […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: character builder, D&DI

Mages Gone Wild

January 26, 2009 by Dave

Let us take a short trip back in time, to an earlier era of D&D. It was the age of AD&D 2nd Edition, the edition that my group and I really cut our teeth on. The first character I brought to the table was an Elven Psionicist named Spock (The Complete Psionics Handbook being the […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, classes, D&D, dnd, Dungeons and Dragons, PHB2, roleplaying, Roleplaying Games, sorcerer, wild mage

New Feature: Character Race Reference

January 26, 2009 by Dave

Another week, another feature from us here at Critical Hits. This time, it’s a list of PC races and the attributes they are known for. This of course goes nicely with our feature on character classes when planning your next character. We only have one more idea for a feature for the time being… so […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: feature, races

Review: “Book of Races”

January 26, 2009 by Dave

Book of Races by Flex Dolphynn is the freshman outing by GameVein. It contains 14 races for 4e, licensed under the GSL, in a 70 page PDF available from DriveThruRPG. The book is full color, with at least one illustration of each race. The illustrations range from Poser/DAZ Studio characters with photoshop filters to colored, pencil art (without inking).

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 3pp, 4e, races

Contest Results: “Roll into the New Year”

January 23, 2009 by Dave

Here are the results of the Roll into the New Year contest, where we roll some dice to determine who wins the dice. Watch the video below to find out what we rolled, and who wins! (Also listen for joshx0rfz, who refused to appear on camera but tried to ruin the filming anyway).

Filed Under: News Tagged With: contest, dice, results

Battlestar Galactica: The Beginning of the End Starts Tonight

January 16, 2009 by Dave

Tonight at 10 EST, the last half of the last season of the remake of Battlestar Galactica premieres (or more simply, Season 4.5… since we all know that calling things “.5” is an awesome idea). For those of you not caught up, I recommend avoiding this post since it contains some SPOILERS, and will probably […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, Television Tagged With: battlestar galactica

New Feature: Character Class Reference

January 14, 2009 by Dave

Just a quick announcement that I’ve put up another Feature: a reference guide for 4e classes. I didn’t have much luck finding fan-made classes, so do let me know if there are any I should add. Hopefully you find this useful when choosing your next character, or if you’re just curious about what all is out there.

Filed Under: Critical Bits, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, classes

YouTube Tuesday: Guinness Armor Edition

January 13, 2009 by Dave

What happens when a beer-chugging rock band goes up against a group of LARPers? The results might surprise you. Warning: this video is metal.  (via ENWorld)

Filed Under: Music, Roleplaying Games, YouTube Tuesday Tagged With: larp, metal

Inq. of the Week: Oh Oh It’s Magic

January 12, 2009 by Dave

While an interesting magic system is not enough to drive a fantasy setting, it does appear to be part of the main hook when getting readers. Likewise, in a fantasy RPG system, this provides an immediate appeal to playing the game if the magic is interesting enough.

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Tagged With: ars magica, D&D, eragon, gurps, mage: the ascension, malazan, mistborn, song of fire and ice, sword of truth, wheel of time, WoW

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    Dave "The Game" Chalker is the Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder of Critical Hits. Since 2005, he has been bringing readers game news and advice, as well as editing nearly everything published here. He is the designer of the Origins Award-winning Get Bit!, a freelance designer and developer, son of a science fiction author, and a Master of Arts. He lives in MD with e and at least three dogs.

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