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Announcing: “Sentinels of the Multiverse” RPG

May 21, 2015 by Dave

In partnership with Greater Than Games, we here at Critical-Hits Studios, Inc. are pleased to announce that we are designing the official Sentinels of the Multiverse Roleplaying Game.

Filed Under: Featured, Newest Critical Hits, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Sentinels of the Multiverse, sotm, sotmrpg

The King is Dead! Long Live the King!

May 18, 2015 by multiplexer

The King’s most fundamental concern during his reign is his Throne. But what happens to succession planning when the regime has resurrection spells standing by, assuming access to diamonds is not an issue?

Filed Under: Columns, Dungeonomics, Featured, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: d&d5e, gaming

The Great Sigil Trading House, or, “Elysium Wool Is Soooo Hot Right Now”

May 10, 2015 by multiplexer

Don’t, they point out, ship goods across downtown Sigil. Don’t be the tiny bison guy. Use the gate towns. That’s what they’re for – so to speak. Build up big warehouse networks, find goods on Planes, and move in bulk. Bulk is where the big money is at.

Filed Under: Columns, Dungeonomics, Featured, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: D&D, economics, gaming, planescape, sigil

The Modronocracy: an Adventure in Price Ceilings

May 4, 2015 by multiplexer

The Primus requests they make one simple change: have their governments impose a Modron-calculated and -approved planned economy with set price ceilings on starting equipment items.

Filed Under: Columns, Dungeonomics, Featured, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: d&d5e, economics, gaming

Breaking: “Dragon+” Magazine App Comes to the iOS Store

April 30, 2015 by Dave

After months of speculation following the launch of D&D 5e and the cessation of the digital versions of Dragon and Dungeon magazines as part of the D&D Insider program in 4th edition, the new version of Dragon has seemingly emerged: on the iOS app store.

Filed Under: Featured, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 5e, app, D&D, D&D 5, dragon

Castles in the Sky Part II: Religion, War and Conquest

April 27, 2015 by multiplexer

Flying Castles allows civilizations and their Gods new tentacles of religious outreach. Off they went, doing what Gods do – grow from medium-sized Gods into big Gods.

Filed Under: Columns, Dungeonomics, Featured, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: d&d5e, economics, gaming, History

Castles in the Sky Part I: History, Mechanics and Trade

April 21, 2015 by multiplexer

Flying Castles wreaked slow motion havoc upon the flying castle-less neighbors. A period of open warfare and conquest followed where those without Flying Castles fell to those who did. It was an age of darkness and death from above.

Filed Under: Dungeonomics, Featured, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: d&d5e, economics, gaming, trade

The Index Card Method Codex, Part 1

April 20, 2015 by The Chatty DM

I’ve been using index cards as a GMing tool a lot this last year. In July, I posted about using them to create adventures in your downtime. I’ve since found new uses for them and brought everything together in this post.

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Campaign Logs, Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 13th Age, D&D, dungeon world, GM, GMing, gming advice, Gming tools

Murder Hobos of the World, Arise!

April 13, 2015 by multiplexer

The secret no bard uttered and no poet told, was this: these warlords and heroes also wanted to settle down, find peace, and scratch their own subsistence existence from the soil with pointy sticks. What good is the story of Harold the Great who defeated the Dwarves at Holden Pass when Harold brutalized his way through the pass just to get the quality soil beyond?

Filed Under: Columns, Dungeonomics, Featured, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: d&d5e, economics, gaming

Zen and the Art of Dungeon Mastering #7: Asking Loaded Questions

March 31, 2015 by The Chatty DM

As I mused on the session during the ensuing weekend, I realized that I might have rediscovered some of the best dirty GMing tricks I’d read in small-press RPGs like Dread. Asking loaded question can indeed steer a player’s action.

Filed Under: Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Player Psychology, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: advice, D&D, DM, DMing, DMing Advice, dungeon master, Leading questions, Zen and the Art of DMing

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