In case you haven’t already, head over to Gnome Stew (which you should be reading anyway) and leave a comment on this post to be entered into a contest for one of the coolest prizes I’ve ever seen for RPGs: custom sound effects for your game! The sound effects are made by the professional sound […]
Memorable Death/Moments in Comics…
… done with Peeps and Bunnies. Strange and quite clever. My favorite after the cut.
GenCon: Live ENnies Coverage
Dave and I are at the ENnies Awards, Dave is covering it live on our twitter feed. Winners to be posted here when we have wireless! Critical Hits Twitter Feed EDIT: Winners below cut and pasted from ENWorld‘s Homepage. Or check the archives of our twitter feed to re-experience it. Also check out our pictures […]
Quick Updates from GenCon
Before we actually start some more serious writeups of our GenCon experiences, there’s a few tidbits that have crossed by me that I wanted to point out: Scott Rouse is very confident that the new version of the GSL will make third parties a lot happier, and they’re specifically using Clark Peterson (Necromancer Games/Orcus) as […]
Green Lantern Next Mega Franchise?
In brightest day, in blackest night, No evil shall escape my sight Let those who worship evil’s might, Beware my power…Green Lantern’s light! So, an epic superhero space movie that draws out the Sinestro/Hal Jordan relationship and seeds the beginnings of Guy Gardner?? Seriously, Green Lantern is perhaps the best established comic franchise yet to […]
Hold Your Breath Wheel of Time Fans
Universal Pictures has acquired film rights to the late Robert Jordan’s bestselling “The Wheel of Time” novel series in a seven-figure deal. Now, I may have some complaints about the series, but it sure does do a lot of things right. I liked the idea of a mini series more, but maybe a movie done […]
WotC to revise GSL: that’ll give us something to interview about
With the evergrowing list of publishers not signing the GSL (or choosing their own alternatives), it looks like the message finally got through to someone: “We recognize the important role third party publishing support plays in the success of the 4th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons. We have listened to the community and our valued […]
2 Hugo Awards, and one other scoop from WorldCon
Not that I normally cover them, but I’m receiving word (via text message from my mother at WorldCon) that the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form) went to Stardust, and Best Novel went to The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon. EDIT: A Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) went to the Doctor Who episode […]
Critical Hits Prepares for GenCon
Expect posting to be light for the next week or so as Bartoneus and myself prepare for the oncoming train game con that is GenCon. We’ve purposely left a lot of our schedule open so that we can cover the con and get into pick-up games that look interesting. We have scheduled just a few […]
RPG Bloggers Down (And Back Up)
Just a quick note… we’re not sure if it’s due to the incredible response yesterday, a rogue post, or something else, but RPG Bloggers Network is currently down. We are doing our best to restore it ASAP. Well, not sure how or why, but it’s back up. Go forth and enjoy, and here’s hoping that […]
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