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Retro Critical Hits

November 9, 2009 by Bartoneus

Greetings everyone, Danny (aka Bartoneus) here! You may have noticed that late last week and over the weekend Critical Hits was in “Retro” mode and now that our layout is back a lot of things are still messed up. A lot of the problems stem from a completely honest and understandable accident, but the end result is hopefully a better framework for the site. Unfortunately the last full backup we had was in May of this year, so we’ll be working through today and tomorrow to get all of the missing images back up and hopefully have everything back to normal soon!

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Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-11-09

November 7, 2009 by Gato the News Robot

The Spiel game of the show by BoardGameNews would be right up @bartoneus’s alley Trek or Treat! Hear a bunch of us from the Star Trek family perform the radio version of War of the Worlds (via @wilw) Check out Swordgleam’s “Martial Flavor” supplement for 4e, including backgrounds, powers, class features, and more For those […]

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Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-10-31

October 31, 2009 by Gato the News Robot

Updated Skill Challenges page with Rob Donoghue’s Siege of Fallcrest and Changing the World, along with new Ruling SCs. Questing’s Readings – RPG Bloggers Network Edition Do you own any of these awesome boardgames? Google Wave: we came, we saw, we played D&D Pet shop marketing to D&D/WoW players (via @Johenius) Lair: Assault on the […]

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Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-10-24

October 24, 2009 by Gato the News Robot

Open Design’s Adopt-a-Soldier Sponsorship (via Matt James) D&D played on a Microsoft Surface.  (via @gregbilsland) Dominion: Seaside rules posted, which includes complete card list (direct link to PDF)  1d12 Questions with 4E cartographer Mike Schley Want to know what Dragon articles WotC is looking for? See Chris Youngs’ Blog (login required, via @mudbunny74)  The classic Cheapass Games […]

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Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-10-17

October 17, 2009 by Gato the News Robot

Pathfinder Bestiary PDF to be $9.99 like core rulebook (hat tip: Jim) The Rouse is leaving WotC. (via @AsmodeusLore) You Too Could… Date Keith Baker! Are you ready…for STAR WARS ZOMBIE WEEK? (via @joshgeeksix and @AronHead) Chris Perkins’ home campaign looks bad ass. (via @newbiedm) Wil Wheaton on RinCon, delves, 4e, Castle Panic, A Penny […]

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Statement from Wizards of the Coast Regarding Fansite Toolkit

October 15, 2009 by Dave

Months back, Wizards of the Coast released their “Fansite Toolkit”, essentially a package of images that could be used for bloggers and similar in exchange for agreeing to, well, a lot of terms about citations, trademarks, and usage. The release raised a lot of questions among the potential audience for it (bloggers) and so we emailed Wizards of the Coast to get some clarification. They provided us two short answers, which don’t cover everything, but do provide some information.

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Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-10-10

October 10, 2009 by Gato the News Robot

Just updated the Character Class Reference w/ Seeker (Primal Controller) Just updated the Character Race Reference w/ Vistani (from Ravenloft!) Coming Soon: The Anarchist Gamemaster Cookbook: Recipes For Games That Don’t Suck by Sinister Adventures Guide to 4e Accessories updated with i4e iPhone app and Litko 4e Tokens Seeker Class Preview: Primal Controller (ddi sub […]

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Interview: Matt James, Co-Author of “Monument of the Ancients”

October 6, 2009 by Dave

“Monument of the Ancients“ was published in Dungeon #170 and is an adventure set in the Forgotten Realms for 13th level characters. The capsule description is thus: If myth and legend are to be believed, the antediluvian monument defends a region of Faerûn where the boundary between the world of Toril and the Elemental Chaos […]

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Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-10-03

October 3, 2009 by Gato the News Robot

i4e iPhone app released (site, iTunes store) Ari Marmell takes on Skill Challenges Using Chessboards for Skill Challenges (via Asmor) D&D camp, circa 1982 Come preview the BRP project, Red Eye of Azathoth! http://bit.ly/TK8kb and http://bit.ly/zkLRd (via KoboldQuarterly) How one guy got his foothold in the game industry. (via Thiefofhearts) DDI compendium search tool: Wizbook […]

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Critical Hits 4th Blogiversary

October 1, 2009 by Dave

So yeah, we’ve been doing this for roughly 4 years now.

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