In prepration for the launch of the new Living Forgotten Realms RPGA campaign, WotC has posted some preliminary rules for Forgotten Realms characters allowable in the new campaign. In the document you’ll find Drow and Genasi rules (with the Genasi being modular to a number of different elemental heritages) and a playable Swordmage class. It’s […]
D&D 4E: First Major Round of Errata
Wizards has posted errata and updates to the 4th Edition D&D core rulebooks, and there are quite a bit of changes / fixes. Head over to the Wizard’s site and check out the text pdf’s, I’ve printed them out and am wondering how exactly I am going to efficiently going to use them. Some highlights […]
Tidbits from E3 that I have liked
Since, for some reason, our tickets to E3 never arrived, I’ve been following the news through a few of the big video game blogs, and picking some things out that interest me: Xbox 360 will be able to stream Netflix movies if you have a subscription. I’ve never gotten the streaming video to work on […]
Warhammer 40k 5th Edition Released Today
The 5th edition of Warhammer 40k was officially released today, according to the Games Workshop website. I wrote a preview of 5th edition a while back, for those who are interested in my thoughts on the new system. As I haven’t bought the new rules yet, I will reserve judgement on it until a later date. […]
Forget OD&D and AD&D: Play DD&D
For Drinking Dungeons & Dragons. As the planning for Gen Con goes ahead (mostly involving me panicking about not having signed up for anything), I continue my quest to trick some of the RPG bloggers into entertaining me at the convention by running games for my benefit. Well, I think I’ve finally tricked the Chatty […]
I can’t hold off any longer: Rock Band 2 is coming
I wanted to wait for some more concrete information to come out of E3 next week, but I can’t hold back any longer: Rock Band 2 is coming this September. (Well, Xbox 360 and PS2 is September, PS3 and Wii later in the year.) Presumably, this is to try and head off Guitar Hero 4‘s […]
Fanboy is now a real word, OK to call people it
“Fanboy” is just one of over 100 words to be added to the Miriam-Webster Dictionary this year. They specifically have it defined as “boy who is an enthusiastic devotee, such as of comics or movies.” Thankfully, the more derogatory “fanboi” is nowhere to be seen. Other words added this year that I use on a […]
Only one week left to win
Next week, contest entries close on Chatty DM and RP Tips’ contest for One Sentence NPCs. All you need to do his head over there and leave a comment with one (or more, as I did) NPCs that can be summed up in one sentence. It doesn’t matter if you don’t think your writing is […]
Reiner Knizia: “Creation of a Successful Game”
Dr. Reiner Knizia, one of the best known and most successful boardgame designers, was one of the Guests of Honor at Origins this year. I showed up to one of his panels, entitled “Creation of a Successful Game”, a few minutes late due to late night D&D the evening before. When I arrived, he had […]
While I was gone…
Three pretty important things happened in the gaming world while I was sequestered away at Origins: Reiner Knizia has won his first Spiel Des Jahres award for the boardgame Keltis. And he won the best kids game award too! I’m sure I’m one of the last bloggers to report on this, but Diablo 3 is […]
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