An illustrated history of Watchmen from page to screen Watchmen Sketchbook How The Studios Would Have Ended Watchmen (A Storyboard)
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-02-28
For when you need to play that mix-tape and invade Hoth at the same time Little Big Planet and Rock Band coming to the PSP… somehow. RIP Phillip Jose Farmer. Thoughts to his family and friends. Are Space Marines recession-proof? Worldwide D&D Game Day Blog Carnival Stein of the Lich King Little Mac returns on […]
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-02-21
DDI: Primal Power playtest with Druid Summons and Tribal feats Play Shadar-Kai (includes spiked chain multiclass) WotC Update: PHB2 Excerpt Racial Paragon Path showing Adroit Explorer paragon path for humans Democratic Chess (I picture them having the voices of the turrets from Portal) Dominion promo cards now available for pre-order Ennies Nomination Applications Up First […]
The Tome (Show) of Dragons
Just a quick note: I was honored to be a guest of The Tome Show with Jeff, as well as with Quinn of At-Will. We talked about the Draconomicon, chapter by chapter. In case you didn’t get enough information from our review (or you just want to hear my sexy voice talk about beating up […]
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-02-14
Holy crap, I don’t play Vampire or any White Wolf games regularly, but this looks amazing “All the mechanics actually felt like they were part of the same game…allowing more time for tactics and bad jokes.” 1st Dominion Expansion to contain everything you need to play (i.e. treasures and kingdoms) Soon, you can die of […]
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-02-07
Goodman Games announces GSL licensed magazine. A shot across Pathfinder’s bow? DDI Updates: The Shaman Preview, Wizards and Worlds (Mordain the Fleshweaver / Summoner Wizard preview) WotC Updates: Previews February and Beyond, Build Them, and Games Will Come L4D Valentines Cards Boardgamegeek 2.0 is live Digital Insider: New York Comic Con info. Also updated character […]
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-01-31
WotC Updates: Judy and Tom’s Excellent Adventure Author Reading 1 Warforged Champion Pride and Prejudice and Zombies LARP Battle captured on Google Streetview (No wait, It’s actually staged just for the camera.) Not terribly old franchise based on a fading video game to be revived for some reason WotC Update: Digital Insider #23 Mostly info […]
Dungeons & Dragons & Racism
At first blush, D&D is a harmless fantasy game of heroes and villains, black & white. This article will examine the phenomena, offer some explanations as to its implications, and suggest how I have, anecdotally, approached the quandary of race in Dungeons & Dragons.
D&D XP 2009: No news is… no news
Maybe it’s just me being arrogant (it happens a lot), but I gotta say, the quality of journalism for coverage of this year’s D&D XP convention is way lower than last year. By this time last year, I had already written up the entire new products seminar, and others had been liveblogging, conducting interviews, etc. I’ve barely heard anything from the convention, despite my pleas.
D&D Character Builder is Live
You can now generate characters of all 30 levels using the newly updated Character Builder if you’re a D&DI subscriber. Otherwise, you can still download the level 1-3 trial version. I’m still figuring out the details of how many computers I can install it on from the announcement thread on the WotC forums. The interface […]
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