The last of our podcast interviews from GenCon 2009, Keith Baker, creator of Eberron, sat down to talk to us about working on the new campaign setting, how the 4e races, classes, and rules fit in to Eberron (including some great examples of re-fluffed characters to fit the setting), and about traveling the world and […]
Critical Hits Podcast #14: Interview with James Wyatt
Our informal, off-the-cuff “guerrilla” interview with James Wyatt at GenCon 2009. (We spoke to him last year as well). Joining Bartoneus and myself as interviewers was Jared from Head Injury Theater. James talks about Eberron, the art process in a WotC project, lots and lots about DMG2 (including the secret chapter name, “D&D as an indie game”), his characters, and D&D with his son.
Critical Hits Podcast #13: Interview with Andy Collins and Bruce Cordell
At GenCon 2009, we talked with Andy Collins and Bruce Cordell, two of the design team at Wizards of the Coast. We talk about monks kicking butt, how power sources are primarily a story invention, psionics psionics psionics, what races make good psionic characters, and more. We also try and get them to declare that […]
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-08-22
Doctor Who RPG approved By BBC and on the way to printers, on track for early November release, should be in many stores (esp in UK) Space Hulk is Back! One of the funniest moments at the @Ennies this year was Mike Selinker’s speech about editing Ari Marmell provides some clarification on the 10-22 level […]
GenCon 2009: 4e Extravaganza (with Photos)
On Friday at GenCon, we attended the 4e Extravaganza, which was where the new setting was announced (which I’m sure everyone has heard by now is Dark Sun). However, there were a number of other products showcased, some new, some already known, and a few big surprises.
Critical Bits: 2009 GenCon
Press Release by the Diana Jones Award Committee explaining why they nominated as they did DDI Monster Builder Contest. (via @WolfStar76) The official Gen Con Tell me About Your PC contest! Go ahead, it time to talk #aboutmypc and win prizes! (via @ChattyDM) GenCon Coverage
4E 2010 Setting – Dark Sun!
That’s right, Dark Sun will be coming out at Gencon next year! The cover looks awesome! I’ll be posting all of the pictures soon. Also Demonomicon, Plane Above, Ravenloft board game, and many others.
GenCon 4e Preview: The Assassin
A sort of stealth promotion is going here at GenCon from WotC, where if you sign up for D&D Insider (or re-up your subscription) you receive a bound book that contains an 11th level Halfling Assassin (with the Obsidian Stalker paragon path). It also contains an adventure you can use him in, Crown of the […]
Live from GenCon
We have arrived at our GenCon hotel. While we’ll make every effort to put a few posts up as the convention goes on, stealing away enough time to write a post can be difficult. If you want up to the minute updates from us, we recommend following @CriticalHits twitter account, my twitter account (@DaveTheGame), and […]
Inq. of the Week: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
I am going to subject you all to another question about what you’d like to see here, but focused on our immediate future. These answers will help us to determine where we should spend our time and energy at GenCon. While we already have a packed schedule (much of which I will lay out below), the effort we spend on write-ups of particular subjects will depend on what you, the audience want to see.
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