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Announcing: The RPG Bloggers Network

August 3, 2008 by Dave

I’ve been working hard the past week or so on a brand new project, but one that has been formulating for a long, long time. It’s the RPG Bloggers Network, located at rpgbloggers.com! A bunch of us (especially those located in the Featured Site section) wanted a way to network together closer, so that members […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Roleplaying Games

3rd Party D&D GSL/OGL Publishers

July 31, 2008 by Dave

Since there have been two major updates in the past day, here’s the list of companies that I know of (and let me know if there’s any I’ve missed, I’ll try to add them) that have or specifically have not signed the GSL. I’ve also tried to source them in some way. Necromancer Games: Staying […]

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Rage, Song, and Shapeshift are all coming back

July 31, 2008 by Dave

ENWorld is reporting, via the WotC 2009 catalog sent to retailers, that you’ll see the return of some familiar faces in PHB2: the Players Handbook 2 will include Druid, Barbarian, Sorcerer, Bard, and Swordmage classes (eight in all). New races will include the gnome, the half-orc, and the goliath. Cynics can now engage their “only […]

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“Free comic like instant courage — only find it on Internet.”

July 30, 2008 by Dave

A few pieces of random Watchmen mania (Watchmania?) First of all, this is genius. Second, a Chip Kidd-designed Watchmen extras book is awesome. Finally, while playing around with my new video iPod, I came across a Watchmen “motion comic” on iTunes. Only the first episode is up, but it’s free, so I checked it out. […]

Filed Under: Comics, Critical Bits, News, Television Tagged With: Animation, watchmen

Vote Today or Face a Red Dragon

July 29, 2008 by Dave

Ennies award voting is up, and our buddy Yax’s Dungeonmastering.com is up for “Best Fan Product.” All it takes is an internet connection and a few minutes, so go vote today! Yax is going to be our roommate at GenCon, and we don’t want him to unleash his red dragon on us if he loses. […]

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More WotC shakeup: Novel lines canceled

July 28, 2008 by Dave

Over at ENWorld, author Ari Marmell laments another change in WotC policy: they are discontinuing their novel lines that do not relate directly to D&D or Magic. A number of posters both on Wizards own boards and on ENWorld have noticed a distinct lack of activity from WotC Staffers on the messageboards in the past […]

Filed Under: News, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre

Gleemax is dead?

July 28, 2008 by Dave

ChattyDM pointed this post out to me: Gleemax Farewell By Randy Buehler Wizards of the Coast has made the decision to pull down its Gleemax social networking site in order to focus on other aspects of our digital initiatives, especially Magic Online and Dungeons & Dragons Insider. We continue to believe that fostering online community […]

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GenCon Pros: Tell me about True Dungeon

July 25, 2008 by Dave

So thanks to an old friend (and Killer DM), it looks like I will have a chance to play in a True Dungeon session. I’ve never been in one before, and it sounds like the session I will be playing in will be in Hardcore mode (whatever that means.) I’ve gone on to the website […]

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The Most Mega of Men

July 23, 2008 by Bartoneus

Must…stop…hyperventilating!  They’re coming out with Megaman 9, and some holiest of holies has inspired them to make it a retro game!  Sweet mother of Christmas!  It looks like it will be available for download for the Wii, 360, and PS3 for whatever amount of money equates to 1000 wii points.  You should totally go read […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Video Games Tagged With: megaman, megaman 9, videogames

Press “A” Repeatedly to Torture Moloch

July 23, 2008 by Dave

Continuing the spin-up of the hype machine for the Watchmen movie, downloadable episodic Watchmen video games are coming. The developer claims that this will give them more time to actually produce a quality game, unlike the vast majority of movie cash-in tie-in games. The games will follow the adventures of Nite Owl and Rorschach, I’m […]

Filed Under: Comics, Critical Bits, Movies, Video Games Tagged With: watchmen

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