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Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-06-13

June 13, 2009 by Gato the News Robot

“The cumulative effect of bad design…is nothing less than a slow erosion of the human spirit.” (via Boardgamenews) Excuse Me, Miss. Didn’t I See You In The Monster Manual 2? High Fantasy vs. Sword & Sorcery Gaming A Game of Thrones + South Park = WIN!!! (via Greywulf) Behold, the 10 best rpg T-shirts. 83 […]

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One Year Later for 4e Podcast

June 10, 2009 by Dave

A whole pile of bloggers and podcasters, including the likes of At-Will, Dungeonmastering, ChattyDM, Gamer’s Haven, Sly Flourish, and yours truly, got together to ask James Wyatt and Chris Perkins of Wizards of the Coast about various topics related to 4e. This all was hosted and put together by Jeff of The Tome Show (who had some questions to ask himself). The end result is quite informative, ranging from game design topics to community topics.

Filed Under: Critical Bits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, dnd, Dungeons and Dragons, Interviews, one year later, tome show, wizards of the coast

Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-06-06

June 6, 2009 by Gato the News Robot

Big news in DDI: Assassin coming in September w/ new power source, revenant undead race in June, Psion in July. Character builder now includes: “classic heroes such as Drizzt Do’Urden, Raistlin, and Jim Darkmagic (of the New Hampshire Darkmagics)” The writers of Star Trek talk about “The Shatner Scene” and why it was cut. (Contains […]

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Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-05-30

May 30, 2009 by Gato the News Robot

Spiel Des Jahres nominees announced. A great bunch in the nominees! (Not so excited about the recommended titles) The Old School determiner is awesome. The very last “Lying in the Gutters” column by Rich Johnston but he says to check here. Fear and Loathing: The Board Game Wil Wheaton: “in which i find something unexpected […]

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Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-05-23

May 23, 2009 by Gato the News Robot

Chuck renewed for third season (but with cutbacks) Kirk’s dad is Thor D&D 3.5 Monster Advancer A home for skill challenges on the web: The Skillforge Sarah Connor Chronicles Terminated PHB3 cover released President Obama Vetoes Mutant Registration Act [The Onion] Who ya gonna call? The Troubled Terminator Timeline More PHB3 content will be rolling […]

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Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-05-16

May 16, 2009 by Gato the News Robot

Monk playtest released, Psionic Striker that uses Dex as primary Mearls and Schubert explain the reason for psionic in the Design and Development (sub required) for those who want to whack kobolds with acquisitions, incorporated … Steampunk Beholder Blizzard’s new game to be new IP. Obviously, it must be World of CowboyCraft Does anyone know […]

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Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-05-09

May 9, 2009 by Gato the News Robot

Green Ronin to publish RPG based on Bioware’s Dragon Age: Origins Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film as ‘Fun, Watchable’ (Onion video) Best worst Star Trek parodies All of BoingBoing Gadget’s posts on Star Trek are worthwhile Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister Changes to D&DI updates, and next update will include Hybrid classes and the […]

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Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-05-02

May 2, 2009 by Gato the News Robot

Cool article about Werewolf, but shouldn’t they be playing iPhone werewolf? Winners of the 2009 Mensa Mind Games Free, D&D, 4e DDI May Editorial Calendar Games Are Art, Eurogames is an Art Period Best. Resignation. Letter. Ever. I don’t know where this came from, but it’s clearly the most powerful Guitar Hero/Rock Band guitar ever […]

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Free 4th Edition

April 29, 2009 by Dave

GURPS Lite: “GURPS Lite is a 32-page distillation of the basic GURPS rules. It covers the essentials of character creation, combat, success rolls, adventuring, and game mastering for GURPS Fourth Edition.” Ars Magica: “The fourth edition of Ars Magica‘s core rulebook introduces improved systems in several key areas such as combat, character advancement, and covenant generation.” Shadowrun: “Shadowrun, […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, ars magica, D&D, gurps

The Subtle Empowerment of the 4E Wizard

April 25, 2009 by Bartoneus

I’ve been reading through Arcane Power for the last couple of days, and I am pretty sure Wizards has tried to pull a fast one on us! What’re they trying to pull? Making the Wizard class just as powerful as the other classes in 4th Edition. It’s not really a crime, I know, but I really don’t think many people have noticed yet and I’d like to open up some discussion on the topic.

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