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Inq. of the Week: Friendly Local Gaming Stores?

November 30, 2009 by Bartoneus

This week December is officially upon us, and with it comes the full force of the holiday season and all of the shopping that implies. I find it a shame that ordering RPG books online from places like Amazon is so much cheaper then it would be if I were to go to my local game store.

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Comics, FLGS, game store, gaming, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games

Inq. of the Week: Video Game Playing, 2009

November 23, 2009 by Dave

Can I just say, there are a crazy amount of video games that have been released lately that I want to play?

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Video Games Tagged With: assassin's creed 2, borderlands, call of duty 2 modern warfare, dragon age origins, halo 3 odst, left 4 dead 2, lego rock band, new super mario bros. wii

Inq. of the Week: Video Formats?

November 16, 2009 by Bartoneus

We seem to be at an interesting crossroads when it comes to movies and video formats, with Blu-ray beating out HD DVD I assumed everything would transition over pretty quickly but it still seems that regular DVDs are the primary format for people watching movies at home.

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Movies, Television Tagged With: blu-ray, dvds, format, Inquisition of the Week, Movies, video

Are You Watching Venture Brothers Yet?

November 11, 2009 by Bartoneus

About three weeks after the 3rd season of The Venture Brothers started, I wrote about it to make sure that anyone who hadn’t heard of it by then knew to check it out. Now it is three weeks into the 4th season and I’m following up. Seriously, are you watching it yet?

Filed Under: Featured, Humor, Television Tagged With: cartoon, Reviews, season 4, Television, TV, venture brothers

Inq. of the Week: Story Games, Or Whatever You Want To Call Them

November 9, 2009 by Dave

The three games I’m in campaigns of are all 4e. I own a fair number of games and so I get cravings for other games. Recently, a few of us have decided to embark on a mission to mix in some other games into our busy schedules, focusing on one-shot adventures such to experience a wide range of other games.

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: indie rpgs, story games

Review: “Kobold Quarterly #11”

November 4, 2009 by Bartoneus

There’s a reason every review I see of the Kobold Quarterly magazine compares it to the Dragon and Dungeon print magazines from years passed, even opening a PDF of the book and seeing the cover makes me immediately think of seeing those issues in my local book store. The comparison goes well beyond the cover, however, through the whole interior of the publication that screams nostalgia…

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 3.5, D&D, dnd 4e, Dungeons and Dragons, issue 11, kobold quarterly, magazine, pathfinder, Reviews, Roleplaying Games, roleplaying games

Pain of Campaigning: Literature and Adventure Planning

November 2, 2009 by The Main Event

Much of gamer culture is shared and it’s not very interesting to rip something off that everyone instantly recognizes and inevitably metagames for. That’s where literature comes in.

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Pain of Publication, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Tagged With: gm advice, pain of campaigning

Warhammer the Smart Way: How to Play the Game Without Emptying Your Wallet

October 30, 2009 by originalsultan

The most common complaint associated with Games Workshop games is that they are too expensive. But fear not friends! This is an expensive hobby, but there are ways to stretch your money and keep some of it in your wallet.

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Tagged With: 40k, army, Games Workshop, Hobby, miniatures, Space Marine, tabletop, warhammer, Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy

Inq. of the Week: Frequency of Play?

October 26, 2009 by Bartoneus

This week I’d like to take a look at how often all of you play tabletop RPGs. My own D&D campaign has been on a short hiatus for four weeks now and will be resuming in early November, but leading into the holiday season I’m scared the schedule is going to be disrupted for the next few adventures.

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: games, gaming, gender, group, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games, women

Preview: “Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons”

October 22, 2009 by Dave

In previous editions, metallic dragons were good aligned, meaning that a DM would have to either create reasons that that the dragons were violently opposed to the PCs, or just ignore the “Always Lawful Good” and similar alignments. This default assumption has changed a bit, tossing many of the metallic dragons squarely into the Unaligned category. Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons provides a variety of motivations for metallic dragons and gives you some new metallics for good measure.

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, draconomicon, dragons

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