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YouTube Tuesday: Singing about Kissing Wookies Edition

November 11, 2008 by Dave

An a capella version of various John Williams songs, with new lyrics around Star Wars. Oh, and it’s composited very well, as you’ll see.

Filed Under: Movies, Music, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, YouTube Tuesday

Hands-On: D&DI Character Generator Beta

November 10, 2008 by Dave

Today, the Beta version of the D&D Insider Character Generator became available to subscribers (and possibly some non-subscribers who signed up to beta test.) At GenCon, we were given a preview of the Character Generator alongside several of the other applications, but we didn’t get a chance to use it hands-on. Today, however, I went through and inputted the character I’m currently playing to test it out, and it all went very smoothly… with one exception.

Filed Under: Featured, News, Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Character Generator, D&D Insider, D&DI

ZeroClix

November 10, 2008 by Dave

Citing the tough economic times, Topps announced today it will be shutting down Wizkids. For those who came in late, Wizkids was the studio that made the first clicky-base game MageKnight, and then was able to spin off the concept into their most successful game, HeroClix. They had a string of other clicky-base games, the construct-a-ship game Pirates of Spanish Main, various collectible card games, a board game or two, and a few other miscellaneous products. Topps purchased Wizkids in 2003 (when founder and game genius Jordan Weissman left).

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Critical Bits, News Tagged With: heroclix, mage knight, wizkids

RPG Bloggers Unite! GenCon Panel

November 8, 2008 by Dave

At long last, the audio for our GenCon panel on being an RPG Blogger is up. The panel includes: Myself and Bartoneus Yax from Dungeonmastering Phil the ChattyDM Tasha the StupidRanger Bob from RPG Digest (Which, you’ll note, includes all the founders of the RPG Bloggers Network.) Therein, in addition to hearing all of our […]

Filed Under: Roleplaying Games Tagged With: gen con, gen con 2008, rpg bloggers

YouTube Tuesday: Vote for Lando Edition

November 4, 2008 by Dave

See more funny videos at Funny or Die Currently only available at Funny or Die, some campaign ads you need to see before voting. And remember, if the Emperor doesn’t win, he might have to get another job.

Filed Under: Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, YouTube Tuesday

Are you ready to ROCK?

November 4, 2008 by Dave

Thoughts on the official 4e D&D Bard, comparisons to the other 4e Bards recently released, and a look back on old 4e speculation.

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, bard, classes

Inq. of the Week: Presidential Election

November 3, 2008 by Dave

Last week, we wanted to find out which of the wonderful pile of games that have just come out you’re planning on buying. The big winner, and I have to agree that it’s a must-buy, is Fallout 3 with 65% of the voters. Second place is Fable 2, recently reviewed here. In third, since our […]

Filed Under: Comics, Inquisition of the Week, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre

Mean Things I Have Done in Horror RPGs

October 31, 2008 by Dave

Had a PC’s longtime girlfriend seduced by a butt-ugly vampire. Replaced a resurrected PC with his evil twin… permanently. (As a result of this) Force said evil twin into working with the PCs after he was disowned by the rest of his doppelganger crew. Killed a PC’s roommate, brought him back as a Frankenstein’s Monster. […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: call of cthulhu, gm advice, horror

The Big Switch

October 29, 2008 by Dave

Today, I have made a big decision. For the past two and a half years, I’ve received a monthly comic shipment straight to my door. It was a time when I was buying and reading a lot of comics, and wanted to be in from the beginning on 52, the first of DC Comics series […]

Filed Under: Comics, Editorial, Featured Tagged With: DC, final crisis, identity crisis, marvel, subscription

And also, the end of the D&D Miniatures game

October 24, 2008 by Dave

As Graham points out, Scott Rouse (brand manager for D&D) made a post on Wizards yesterday that explains the changes. To me, the most important part of the whole thing is: November’s release of Demonweb will be the last new set that includes skirmish statistics…  official sanctioning of D&D Miniatures skirmish events will cease right after D&D Experience in February.  I […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Editorial, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: D&D, D&D miniatures, skirmish, wargame

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