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Pain of Campaigning VI: Give Your Villains Some Panache!

August 9, 2008 by The Main Event

Well, it had to happen.  The Main Event has begun to plan his first 4E game (and speak in third person!) So now, with a campaign fresh on the brain, I’ll continue my last villains article and talk about how to make your villain(s), regardless of type, formidable, awesome and dastardly. They Have a Plan: […]

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

WotC finally convinces me to buy Forgotten Realms

August 7, 2008 by Dave

I’ve never been much of a Realms fan. Well, I take it back, I’ve never really been a fan of PLAYING in the Forgotten Realms. When I was younger, I read every FR book that my two local libraries had, and still own quite a few paperbacks of Realms stories. I especially enjoyed the Avatar […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, News, Roleplaying Games

Inq. of the Week: Dungeon Crawls?

August 4, 2008 by Bartoneus

I’d begun to notice a distinct lack of D&D posts here lately, which was partially orchestrated and partially just because a lot of other news and thoughts came up here, so last week I ventured to ask who would win in a super big monster brawl.  It looks like we have a tie!!! The one […]

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, Board, Card, and Miniature Games, D&D, dungeon crawl, Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons, roleplaying, Roleplaying Games, tabletop RPG

Announcing: The RPG Bloggers Network

August 3, 2008 by Dave

I’ve been working hard the past week or so on a brand new project, but one that has been formulating for a long, long time. It’s the RPG Bloggers Network, located at rpgbloggers.com! A bunch of us (especially those located in the Featured Site section) wanted a way to network together closer, so that members […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Roleplaying Games

Why You Shouldn’t Watch Firefly

July 30, 2008 by Sucilaria

Many, if not most of you, have already viewed Joss Whedon’s Firefly series and the follow-up film, Serenity. This article is not intended for you; however, let me say that I’m sorry. I now feel your pain, because some supposed “friends” convinced Bart and I to view the series. I had many reservations about it, […]

Filed Under: Anime, Editorial, Featured, Movies, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, Television Tagged With: firefly, joss whedon, sci-fi, science fiction, Television, TV, tv shows

Some Pleasant Overlap

July 30, 2008 by Dave

I’ve noticed lately that there seem to be two groups of people who really enjoy 4e, and who are coming back to it after years of not playing D&D: WoW Players Eurogamers Now, I think I’ve shied away from pointing this out because early on, these were used as derogatory statements against 4e. (I still […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Editorial, Featured, Roleplaying Games, Video Games

Inq. of the Week: Monster Brawl

July 28, 2008 by Bartoneus

The Dark Knight dominated its second weekend, but who is surprised by that with competition like the way late X-Files movie sequel and Will Ferrell’s latest movie Step Brothers?  It raked in $75 million on its second weekend, which is very impressive and left the second place movie way behind at $30 million.  Last week […]

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Tagged With: D&D, Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons, Inquisition of the Week, monster brawl, monsters

The Most Mega of Men

July 23, 2008 by Bartoneus

Must…stop…hyperventilating!  They’re coming out with Megaman 9, and some holiest of holies has inspired them to make it a retro game!  Sweet mother of Christmas!  It looks like it will be available for download for the Wii, 360, and PS3 for whatever amount of money equates to 1000 wii points.  You should totally go read […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Video Games Tagged With: megaman, megaman 9, videogames

Inquisition of the Week: Bat-sequel

July 21, 2008 by Dave

Last week, in preparation for the release of The Dark Knight, we asked which Batman movie was your favorite. The clear winner, with 59%, is Batman Begins, the reimagining with an all-star cast that lead into The Dark Knight. The previous first Batman movie came in second with 20%, and the first animated Batman movie, […]

Filed Under: Comics, Featured, Movies

Report Card: Space Marine Units (Part 3)

July 18, 2008 by originalsultan

And now for the third and final installment of my analysis of every unit in Codex: Space Marines.  The first part contains the overview and my grades for HQ, Troops and Transports.  The second part contains my grades for Elites and Fast Attack.  This final part contains my grades for Heavy Support and Ultramarines Special […]

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