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They Might Be (Two-Headed) Giants Episode 0: Magic Arena Sealed Cube

April 15, 2020 by Dave

They Might Be (Two-Headed) Giants Episode 0: Arena Cube Sealed

We’ve come up with a new video series called “They Might Be (Two-Headed) Giants.” In it, we’ll play games on Magic: the Gathering Arena together, and compare it against our records when playing solo.

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, They Might Be (Two-Headed) Giants Tagged With: Magic Arena, Magic: the Gathering

How to Create Your Own Country for Tax Reasons

March 3, 2020 by multiplexer

The Arcology in the US

An arcology is a portmanteau of “architecture” and “ecology.” The original architectural vision for an arcology was an ecologically neutral, self-powering, self-feeding, and self-sufficient enclosed system.

Filed Under: Dungeonomics, Featured, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Tagged With: arcology, cybernomics, cyberpunk

How to Start a Sand War

February 24, 2020 by multiplexer

I Love Sand

What are microprocessors made from? Transistors. What are transistors made from? Sand.

Filed Under: Dungeonomics, Featured, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Tagged With: cybernomics, cyberpunk, night's black agents, timewatch

Kickstarter to Watch: The Level Up

February 21, 2020 by Bartoneus

The Level Up is a custom, lightweight platform that helps add a second level to your tabletop for board games & tabletop RPGs (or any game that can take up a lot of table space, really).

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, Newest Critical Hits, News, Roleplaying Games

The Fully Immersive Internet: Experience Influencers in the VR Future

February 18, 2020 by multiplexer

Fave to pants them! Share to smooch them!

The Rig was a highly classified military appliance used in training Special Forces. The Rig provided a perfect facsimile of the experience without having to send a trainee into danger.

Filed Under: Dungeonomics, Featured, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Tagged With: cybernomics, dungeonomics

Deepfakes, Fraud, and Digital Personal Copyright

February 10, 2020 by multiplexer

Pay us 10000 credits and no one has to know your CEO is an unrepentant monster.

This story opens in media res, in the middle of heart-pounding action as the US Congress passes a modification to the Communications Decency Act of 1996.

Filed Under: Dungeonomics, Featured, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre

A Day in the Life in the Danube Arcology

February 3, 2020 by multiplexer

Smart apartments. Smart people.

Adrian and Jeremy Osborne live in the Danube Arcology. Both are current employees of the Danube Corporation. They’re entitled to a The Smartment™: a product of the Danube Corporate Family.

Filed Under: Dungeonomics, Featured, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre

Godless Lands Chronicles: Of Goblins and Charlatans

March 4, 2019 by The Chatty DM

"Graveyard of Dead Gods" by Shane Semler

We had two adventure hooks going in: working as an escort for a wagon bound for the frontier city of Phandalin. The second plot hook, provided by the party itself was that Phandalin was their next destination for their traveling tour!

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: dnd, dnd 5e, the godless lands

D&D Beyond: From Trial to Adoption

February 25, 2019 by The Chatty DM

D&D Beyond is an amazing, albeit expensive tool that gives me 90% of what I need at the table. But the missing 10% can be real annoying.

Filed Under: Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: dnd, dnd beyond

Sentinel Comics Roleplaying Game on Kickstarter Now

February 19, 2019 by Dave

Sentinel Comics RPG GM Screen

We’re in the final week of the Sentinel Comics Roleplaying Game Kickstarter, and we’d love for you to check it out.

Filed Under: Featured, Newest Critical Hits, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: critical-hits studios, greater than games, SCRPG, Sentinels of the Multiverse

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