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San Diego Comic-Con 2010 Preview Night

July 23, 2010 by Logan Bonner

Here’s a quick post to cover the tiny bit of Comic-Con that’s happened so far. After a mistake that put me on the wrong shuttle and a nearly hour-long drive around downtown, I arrived at the house Chris Tulach and I have rented a room in. Then after a 30-minute walk back down to the convention center, I snagged my professional badge and headed toward the exhibit hall that was just opening up.

Filed Under: Comics, Minor Quests, Movies, News, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Tagged With: comic con, conventions, SDCC

Critical Bits for the week ending 2010-07-18

July 18, 2010 by Gato the News Robot

New 4e project announced from @KoboldQuarterly , with lead design by @loganbonner http://is.gd/doto1 # RT @CharlesMRyan: The cat's now out of the bag: the Ryans are leaving England after four glorious years. Full scoop at http://www.charlesmryan.com # RT @gamefiend: New blog post: Threshold http://at-will.omnivangelist.net/2010/07/threshold/ # RT @warrenellis: Harvey Pekar reported dead. Very sad. http://bit.ly/9sBpmS # […]

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CONTEST: Want To Go To GenCon/Can’t Go To GenCon

July 16, 2010 by Dave

For those of you without tickets to GenCon, whether because you haven’t bought them but could go or because you can’t go at all, we offer the following multi-part contest. Choose the one that best fits your situation: I Want A Ticket To Go To GenCon, I Can’t Go To GenCon, I Have A Ticket And I’m Going To GenCon.

Filed Under: News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: contest, gencon

For Your Ennies Voting Consideration

July 16, 2010 by Dave

Voting opens today, and we’d really like you to vote for us as Best Blog. We were nominated last year too and lost to fine competition, and this year’s competition is easily as fierce. Thus, we’re presenting this post that highlights some of our content over this past year that we believe qualifies us to be Best Blog.

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, News, Roleplaying Games

Interview: Steve Townshend, D&D Freelancer and Co-Author of “Demonomicon”

July 14, 2010 by Dave

Steve Townshend is a freelance writer (both for D&D and his own fiction) and actor living in Chicago. We recently had the chance to interview Steve over email about the release of the new D&D Demonomicon book, of which his name shares the cover with Mike Mearls and Brian R. James. We also asked him about story in D&D games, a subject with which he has a lot to say.

Filed Under: Featured, Interviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, demonomicon, DM advice, freelancing, monsters, steve townshend

Critical Bits for the week ending 2010-07-11

July 11, 2010 by Gato the News Robot

RT @mikemearls: Expedition to the Barrier Peaks made Wikipedia's front page! Big thanks to the D&D fans who contribute to Wikipedia. #dnd # New #dnd updates for July released: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/updates Big changes to some core powers # RT @mudbunny74: MB and Compendium update pushed back 'till July 20th. #wotc #ddi # Interview over at Gamasutra […]

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2010 Ennie Nominations Announced (with Recommendations)

July 10, 2010 by Dave

It’s that time of year again, when the big RPG award nominees of the year are announced, after careful consideration and selection by a panel of judges voted on by the community. The full list of nominees for the year are available on their site. And of course, we’d like to call out our new favorite category…

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, News, Roleplaying Games

Magic 2011 Core Set Preview

July 7, 2010 by Bartoneus

The new core set for Magic: The Gathering (M11) is set to release in just over a week, and we’ve received a few preview cards just like we did with the previous set Rise of the Eldrazi. I am currently an extremely casual M:tG player and seeing the new sets that come out usually means two things for me, the first is that my friends and I will most likely try to plan a booster draft in the coming weeks and the second is that I absolutely love seeing how the game has changed since I started playing it.

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, News

Critical Bits for the week ending 2010-07-04

July 4, 2010 by Gato the News Robot

Dixit wins Spiel Des Jahres (via @boardgamenews) http://bit.ly/aNpKlM # Check out @JaredvonHindman's Playing Evil Races D&D Outsider article about monstrous races http://bit.ly/aw9HTA # One Cool Thing I Saw at Origins 2010 http://youtu.be/A7yDNjdiXgo # Updated the Origins Awards post with links to some of the products nominated (mainly with our affiliate links) http://is.gd/d8dmQ # RT @thekiko: […]

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Origins 2010: Final Round-Up

July 1, 2010 by Dave

Origins has once again come and gone. Due to various scheduling mishaps with the convention and technical problems, we didn’t get to do much in the way of scheduled gaming, and spend our time looking for things to do. Here’s just a sample of some of the stuff that we did do and I was excited about in the convention.

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Editorial, News, Roleplaying Games, Video Games Tagged With: 4e, clerks, crokinole, dominion, dresden files, dresden files rpg, evil hat, exhibit hall, fiasco, legedermain, litko, mayday games, microsoft surface, origins, Origins 2010, rogue, rogue-like, rowboat, settlers of america, settlers of catan, shear panic

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