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Rodney Thompson on “Dusk City Outlaws” RPG

February 13, 2017 by Dave

Dusk City Outlaws environment

Assemble your crew and case the joint by checking out this interview with “Dusk City Outlaws” creator Rodney Thompson.

Filed Under: Featured, Interviews, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: capers, dusk city outlaws, heists, Kickstarter

Interview: Rob Heinsoo on “13th Age”

November 7, 2013 by Mike Shea

On November 5th, Mike Shea of SlyFlourish interviewed Rob Heinsoo, one of the lead designers of 13th Age, live on Google Hangouts.

Filed Under: Featured, Interviews, Podcasts, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 13 true ways, 13th Age, DM advice, gm advice, icons

Interview: Amanda Valentine, Developer of “Little Wizards” RPG

August 12, 2013 by Dave

I’ve worked with Amanda Valentine on multiple projects before (including Marvel Heroic Roleplaying), where she served as a lead editor, helping to make the books as best they could be on every level. Amanda has a lot of experience working at every level of game design across multiple game lines, and so I was very […]

Filed Under: Featured, Interviews, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Gaming with Kids, little wizards

Interview: Rich Baker on “Primeval Thule”

July 22, 2013 by Dave

If you know D&D, you probably know the name Rich Baker. From his role in development of settings like Birthright, games like Alternity and the new Gamma World, many Forgotten Realms supplements and novels, war games, and much more, Baker has many years of industry experience on all kinds of products. Now, Baker has teamed up […]

Filed Under: Featured, Interviews, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 13th Age, 13thAge, 4e, campaign setting, D&D, pathfinder, Primeval Thule

Interview: Bill “Dungeon Bastard” Cavalier on “The World’s Worst Dungeon Crawl”

May 15, 2013 by Dave

Here at Critical Hits, we’ve been following the advice of Bill Cavalier, Adventure Coach AKA “The Dungeon Bastard” for some time now. At first it was because we mistook him for someone else entirely, but we grew to value his advice on WINNING Dungeons & Dragons after years of treating it as a collaborative activity […]

Filed Under: Featured, Humor, Interviews, Newest Critical Hits, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: dungeon bastard, Dungeons and Dragons, gen con, gen con 2013, Kickstarter, lawful badass, TPK, world's worst dungeon crawl

Interview: Tracy Barnett, Designer of School Daze and One Shot

November 2, 2012 by Bartoneus

Tracy Barnett is a good friend of ours that has waged a one-man war on his own spare time. With his second KickStarter game, One Shot, ending in just over two days I offered to chat with him a bit about his projects and his thoughts on designing open to the public as he has made a habit of doing. You can also read more of Tracy’s thoughts on that subject in posts he wrote for us earlier this year, Game Design and Openness and Designing in Public.

Filed Under: Featured, Interviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: game design, Interviews, Kickstarter, one-shot, roleplaying games, sand and steam productions, school daze

Interview: Mike Mearls on the Playtesting Process of D&D Next

June 29, 2012 by Dave

On June 15th, we conducted an interview over Skype with Mike Mearls, head of Research & Design of D&D at Wizards of the Coast. Also during that day, Mike was participating in an “Ask Me Anything” thread on Reddit, so some of the answers make reference to that. This interview has been transcribed, paraphrased, and edited by us from the call. We chose to mainly focus on the process of playtesting and design for D&D Next for this interview.

Filed Under: Featured, Interviews, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 5e, D&D, D&D next, game design, mike mearls, open playtest, playtesting

Steve Townshend on Adventure Design Podcast

March 19, 2012 by Mike Shea

Mike Shea of Sly Flourish and Steve Townshend, freelance WotC designer and trained actor, discuss the ins and outs of great adventure design in this most recent Critical Hits podcast.

Filed Under: Critical Hits Podcast, Interviews, Podcasts, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, adventure design, heroes of the feywild, improvisation, madness at gardmore abbey, monster manual 3, monster vault, NPCs

Interview: “Atomic Robo The Roleplaying Game”

January 23, 2012 by Dave

Maybe you’re a fan of the many-award winning Dresden Files Roleplaying Game, powered by the FATE game engine. Maybe you’re a fan of robots punching Nazis. Maybe you are a fan of both, in which case, there’s going to be a new roleplaying game for you!

Filed Under: Featured, Interviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: atomic robo, dresden files, evil hat, fate, spirit of the century

Preview and Interview: “Guestbook” RPG

June 20, 2011 by Dave

We talk about the upcoming “Guestbook” RPG that combines collectible characters with RPGs in order to produce 5 minute flash fiction while standing in line and hanging out. We interview the game’s designers, and preview Taco Girl, one of the game’s first characters.

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, Interviews, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: guestbook, guestbook rpg, story game

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