I don’t even have a PS3 but I heard the news (via kotaku, joystiq, slashdot, and every other gaming publication) about Little Big Planet‘s delay. What was strange was the reason – for a song. I’m not going to bother getting into the silliness of the whole thing but it has spawned a side effect […]
Pain of Campaigning VII: The Finale (Part I: What You Want the Adventure to be)
Well, if you’re reading this with a finale on the horizon, first, let me say: Congratulations! I can honestly say that amongst the best DMs I know that the prospect of actually having a campaign reaching a conclusion, rather than dying out, is no greater than 50%… and that’s a generous estimate. Personally, my latest […]
D&D Insider Now Available for Purchase (and New EULA)
Those of you who want to buy D&D Insider now have your chance to subscribe and get access to Dragon, Dungeon, bonus tools, and the Compendium (which I had more opportunities to work with over the weekend, and discovered a few issues in the content.) I’ll be purchasing mine later on in the evening, partially […]
The Professor X Paradox
Many of us here at Critical Hits enjoy comics, especially of the superhero variety. So it’s natural to try and combine our love of roleplaying games with our love of superheroes into one solid package. Primarily, our experience with superhero games was in GURPS Supers. GURPS is a system we developed a fair amount of […]
Impressions: Baltimore Comic-Con 2008
I’ve been to a fair number of conventions, but this past Sunday was my first time going to a strictly comic convention and I have to say the experience was pretty extraordinary. Several of the other conventions I’ve been to have also been in the Baltimore Convention Center, and as we walked in my first […]
Heroes Season 3 Premiere: Both Awesome and Horrible
The following rant/review contains spoilers. It assumes you have watched the two part season premiere. I finally got a chance over the weekend to watch the TiVoed season 3 premeire of Heroes. In Season 1, I had found myself watching the first few episodes, giving it a pass for most of the season, then picking […]
The Top 10 Songs that Should Never be in Rock Band
I’m sure it’s happened to many of you, listening to the radio either in the car or at work and hearing a particular song and thinking, “Damn, this song really should be in Rock Band!” Apparently this happened so much that our friend DrScotto began to reply with simply, “EVERY song should be in Rock […]
A Closer Look at 4th Edition Multi-Classing
I’ve heard over and over again, from various people, that they feel multi-classing in 4th Edition just isn’t worth it. I even got to the point of asking several of the Wizards staffers if their current games (each staffer seems to be playing in several games of 4e) had any higher level multi-classed characters that […]
Done with World of Warcraft Forever
I haven’t played World of Warcraft in several years, since a few months after the game was released. (I played for a while in the open beta before that.) At the time, I had a lot going on in my life, my internet connection wasn’t stable enough to play long term, and all my friends […]
The Defense of Laser Clerics and Infinite Wizards
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, […]
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