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The Sound of Gnomes

August 28, 2008 by Dave

In case you haven’t already, head over to Gnome Stew (which you should be reading anyway) and leave a comment on this post to be entered into a contest for one of the coolest prizes I’ve ever seen for RPGs: custom sound effects for your game! The sound effects are made by the professional sound […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, News, Roleplaying Games

And the YouTube of the Year is…

August 27, 2008 by Dave

…a tie! Yes, coming both in with 23 votes each (33% of the vote) are Dead Fantasy and “Rarr, I’m a monster.” A day in the life of portal turrets came in a respectable second place behind those two. Thanks to everyone who voted! The two winners are embedded after the jump:

Filed Under: Roleplaying Games, Video Games, YouTube Tuesday

YouTube of the Week: Mega Bees Edition

August 26, 2008 by Dave

You might need this for reference, but other than that, should be self-explanatory. Thanks to joshx0rfz for sending it to me.

Filed Under: Movies, Video Games, YouTube Tuesday

Adventure Design Workshop Seminar (GenCon 2008)

August 25, 2008 by Dave

Still working through our backlog of GenCon 2008, we stopped in at the Adventure Design Seminar, which Mike Mearls moderated (say that three times fast), and also included Rich Baker, Bruce Cordell, Chris Youngs, and James Wyatt. The seminar was advertised as both talking about adventure design for D&D 4e and actually designing an adventure, […]

Filed Under: Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, adventure design, adventures, D&D, dungeon, dungeon magazine, fantasy, gencon, gencon 2008

Critical Hits Podcast #11: True Dungeon Actual Play

August 24, 2008 by Dave

During GenCon 2008, post-Ennies, I ran off to a far away hotel to play in my very first session of True Dungeon. No photography is allowed inside the game itself, but I smuggled in my trusty voice recorder inside my shirt pocket to record the whole thing as a bit of guerrilla reporting. It’s hard […]

Filed Under: Critical Hits Podcast, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: gencon, gencon2008, true dungeon

Critical Hits Podcast #10: Entropia Universe

August 22, 2008 by Dave

Before GenCon 2008, we were contacted to check out the Entropia Universe booth during the show. There, we met with John Bates of Mindark, who explained to us all about Entropia Universe, the online game/virtual world. Bartoneus and I went into the interview knowing almost nothing about it, but we both agreed afterward that it’s […]

Filed Under: Critical Hits Podcast, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, Video Games Tagged With: entropia universe, MMO

Preview: “Dr. Who RPG” and “Starblazer Adventures” RPG from Cubicle 7 Entertianment

August 22, 2008 by Dave

While wandering around the GenCon 2008 exhibit hall, one booth caught my eye: Cubicle 7 Entertainment, which had signs all over the booth advertising the upcoming Dr. Who RPG. I’m a huge fan of the new Dr. Who series, so I had to stop and ask about it. (I also remembered playing in a Dr. […]

Filed Under: Comics, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, Television Tagged With: dr. who, gencon, gencon 2008, starblazer adventures

Critical Hits Podcast #9: Actual Play with James Wyatt

August 22, 2008 by Dave

During GenCon 2008, Bartoneus, ChattyDM, GamingSteve, and myself had the privilege to be in a D&D session run by James Wyatt, author of the DMG (who we interviewed later on in the con– this is the game we referenced at the beginning of the interview.) It was a straightforward dungeon delve, with Wyatt starting the […]

Filed Under: Critical Hits Podcast, Roleplaying Games

The Defense of Laser Clerics and Infinite Wizards

August 21, 2008 by Dave

We take a short break from our GenCon writeups to bring you some commentary… ChattyDM likes laser clerics. Tommi does not. There’s one unaddressed tangent to the issue that I really like in relation to 4e. In previous editions, magic was a limited resource, and it was restricted. Wizards memorized spells that did specific things, […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, clerics, D&D, wizards

Inq. of the Week: YouTube of the Year?

August 20, 2008 by Dave

Sorry for the delay, between site issues (which unfortunately might not be solved yet) and our massive GenCon coverage, i was delayed in announcing the nominees for YouTube of the Year! Doing a YouTube every week is what really knocked me into doing a schedule for Critical Hits and (I think) a key part of […]

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, YouTube Tuesday

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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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