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Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-08-08

August 8, 2009 by Gato the News Robot

Excellent post by SlyFlourish on Battle Maps Top 10 Comic Book Cities from Architects Journal Chris Youngs, EIC of Dragon, addresses edition war topics (including roleplaying in 4e) DDI (sub required): Ampersand says it’s not going to use the Psion article format anymore for releases August and Beyond article, including more illustrations by Head Injury […]

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Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-08-01

August 1, 2009 by Gato the News Robot

Cool post from @RyanMacklin about Montages for D&D 4e Keith Baker has begun to write up his gaming/traveling adventures in Have Dice, WIll Travel Diana Jones Award nominees announced Tom Vasel’s evil twin reviews “Are You The Traitor?” 4e conversion for “Elder Evils” book Don’t Care Much About The ENnies? NECA buys Heroclix (via @merb101) […]

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Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-07-25

July 25, 2009 by Gato the News Robot

The story on Evony (hint: it’s not good) Jack Vance glowingly profiled in New York Times (via Robin D. Laws) Attention Citizens! The @AlphaComplex and @Friend_Computer are on Twitter. Anyone questioning the duplication is a Traitor. First photo of new Doctor and Companion (via @nerdvana) Goodman Games wants to make your campaign an offer it […]

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Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-07-18

July 18, 2009 by Gato the News Robot

RPGA updates for GenCon Help make Chris Pramas an epic 4e character for Green Ronin prizes Magic: The Gathering Jones Sodas (one for each color) Missed Free RPG Day? WotC posted the Eberron adventure, Khyber’s Harvest (via Geek’s Dream Girl) While always great, this OotS is especially brilliant (and metaphysical!) Dwarven Forge isn’t a dollhouse… […]

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2009 Ennie Award Nominations

July 13, 2009 by Dave

You can view the entire list of nominees at the Ennie homepage or at this thread on ENWorld. But let’s get this out of the way first: Best Website Critical Hits Dungeon-A-Day Kobold Quarterly Mad Brew Labs Obsidian Portal Forgive me losing my journalistic composure here, but WE WERE NOMINATED FOR AN ENNIE AWARD! Ahem. […]

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Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-07-11

July 11, 2009 by Gato the News Robot

Game designer Mike Selinker talks about the Battletech pods  The Munchkin Super Sekrit Project has, apparently, become available! The MUNCHKIN iPHONE APP!  (via @muskrat_john) 10 Business Lessons I Learned from D&D  The first two week publication cycle has begun on Nevermet Press UpComingCons.com has launched, providing a listing of anime, comic, gaming, and sci-fi cons, as […]

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Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-07-04

July 4, 2009 by Gato the News Robot

Big Weekend for Dominion: It won both an Origins Award and the Spiel des Jahres Top 20 sites on the RPG Bloggers Network Cole of PvPonline serves up some wonderful DM advice (via Asmor) “My favorite 9 non-RPG geek shirts”: http://geek6.com/u/8 #4 is my favorite (via @joshgeeksix) Monthly DDI update hitting July 7th: http://tinyurl.com/ltcgbt – […]

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Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-06-27

June 27, 2009 by Gato the News Robot

Next D&D Minis Set “Legendary Evils” spoilers posted DDI: Class Acts The Bard  Paragon Paths for Bardic Multiclassers, including a Daring Blade (Order of the Stick reference?) Details on the Doctor Who RPG  D&D appearances in webcomics this week: Penny Arcade  and PvP  The 15 Games You Need For Your New iPhone  New article on […]

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Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-06-20

June 20, 2009 by Gato the News Robot

BSG board game getting Pegasus expansion So You Think You Can Dragonlance DDI: Revenant (DDI Exclsuive) The race so nice you’ll live your life twice. Revenant neatly fixes the problem with DDI exclusive content by using feats from other races: so in a backwards way, they still get updates. Eberron PG art gallery. Unfortunately looks […]

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4e Lite

June 18, 2009 by Dave

I think you could take 4e and remove the powers system for a “rules-lighter” experience. Here’s roughly how it would go:

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