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Giveaway: 1st Edition AD&D “Unearthed Arcana” Reprint

February 28, 2013 by Bartoneus

Wizards of the Coast is awesome enough to provide us with five copies of the new 1st Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Unearthed Arcana reprint book to giveaway to our readers! We haven’t really done a giveaway or contest in quite a while, so I’m keeping this nice and simple – all you have to do in order to be entered to win one of the five copies is leave a comment on this post!

Filed Under: Featured, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 1e, AD&D, unearthed arcana

Worst. Session. Ever. (Part 2)

February 12, 2013 by Vanir

Last week, I talked about falling flat while ending a character. I also managed to start a few off on a sour note.

Filed Under: Dire Flailings, Featured, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: anxiety, backstory, character, dm tips, forgiveness, pressure

Worst. Session. Ever. (Part 1)

February 5, 2013 by Vanir

I was pretty pumped for last week’s D&D session. It was the first session of the new year, the first since we ended the first story arc of the first campaign I’d ever run and enjoyed, and the first time ever playing D&D for our new player.

I’ll cut to the chase. This past session was, in some ways, the worst I’ve ever run. In other ways, it was worse than that somehow. It was bad like a bowl of Lucky Charms with salsa in it. I’ve gone to the dentist after not flossing for months and felt better about myself afterward.

Prepare for neurosis.

Filed Under: Dire Flailings, Featured, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: bad session, confidence, lucky charms, planning, salsa

The Top 10 Things That Can Make a Convention Game Awesome

January 29, 2013 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty returns to his love/hate relationship with convention games and tells you what can make them so cool.

Filed Under: Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: convention, D&D, RPGs, That Guy, top 10

Dealing with our Inner-Demons: a G+ Hangout featuring Ryan Macklin

January 28, 2013 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty announces a Google+ Hangout with Ryan Macklin to discuss how they both dealt with some darker experiences in their lives and the ways they found to better deal with their respective inner demons.

Filed Under: Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: anxiety, depression, Discussion, Google+, Hangout

Cortex Plus Hacker’s Guide and Fantasy Heroic Roleplaying

January 25, 2013 by Dave

As you might know, Phil and I have been D&D fans for decades. Here on Critical Hits, we’ve spent a lot of time writing about, musing about, and generally playing with D&D and games like it.

Filed Under: Critical Threats, Featured, Game Hacks & Content, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Cortex Plus, cphg, D&D, leverage, marvel heroic roleplaying, mhrp, smallville

Back Catalog D&D PDFs Begin to Resurface on DriveThruRPG

January 22, 2013 by Dave

PDF editions for D&D products have begun to reappear on both DriveThruRPG and the new completely branded site D&D Classics.

Filed Under: Featured, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 1e, 2e, 3e, 4e, D&D, drivethrurpg, OD&D, PDF

The Top 10 Things That Can Make Convention Games Suck

January 14, 2013 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty DM presents a whole list of things that can make Convention games be less than ideal experiences.

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Humor, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

My Year in Gaming Kickstarters

December 31, 2012 by Dave

As 2012 wraps up, I wanted to take a look at the Kickstarters I supported this year, and ultimately focusing on the games, particularly the RPGs, my most-supported category.

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Comics, Critical Threats, Editorial, Featured, Movies, Music, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, Video Games Tagged With: Kickstarter

Fifty Shades of “Marvel Heroic Roleplaying”

December 27, 2012 by The Main Event

Cortex Plus is an imminently hackable system. Having played in a game that began as Pathfinder and switched to MHRP and kept the same setting, I have experience in crafting MHRP to fit unusual circumstances. I have used MHRP as a basis for changing and epic level Pathfinder game into a more story-telling emphasized hack of MHRP. What follows are some of the more interesting applications that developed in my own game.

Filed Under: Featured, Game Hacks & Content, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: marvel, marvel heroic roleplaying, mhrp, pathfinder

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