Pretty big announcement from WotC, as covered by ENWorld, about the future of the licensing agreement formerly known as the d20 License. Most of it won’t matter to the casual D&D player. But here’s some tidbits that might be important (and keep in mind, everything is subject to change, this is all interpretation): Until 2009, […]
Critical Hits: Now Easier and More Fun
The latest Design & Development article from Wizards tells us most of what we need to know about a subject near and dear to our hearts: Critical Hits. In fourth edition, a natural 20 equals a critical hit, and a critical hit does maximum damage. This fixes the syndrome that I always hated: Roll a […]
Congratulations, Original Sultan!
A hearty round of congratulations from everyone at Critical Hits to guest reviewer and frequent commenter Original Sultan who was married this past weekend. We wish him the best in his life to come (aided by his new magic ring that has many powers and bonuses, I’m sure). As an added bonus, here’s an embarrassing […]
Want an Avatar by your Comments?
I’ve decided to switch over to Gravatars, since the SexyComments plugin that I use makes it easy. I initially used it with MyBlogLog avatars, but ever since they were bought out, it seems to have gone totally fubar. I know a couple of you have signed up for accounts with MBL to use avatars, and […]
Twas' the Night Before Tesla
On this fine holiday eve, I was scouring the internets and ran into this beauty. A “Tesla Tree“. A shot of a christmas tree made of discharges of Tesla Coils. This DIY project may just be a time-lapsed photo with some color filters to add some holiday cheer, but the geekiness of it just brings […]
Thanks to Poker, Antigua is New Pirate Haven
In a strange epilogue to the decision by the United States government (pre-midterm changeover) to place limits on funding for online poker, the country of Antigua has won the legal right to ignore US copyrights thanks to the World Trade Organization. From the New York Times: The award follows a W.T.O. ruling that Washington had […]
HAPPY [HOLIDAY NAME HERE]
Portal fans will want to check out the ApertureScience website for a special Holiday-Cam, complete with festive weighted companion cube and, of course, cake. There’s also plenty of fun stuff to be had after logging in (by typing LOGIN at the prompt, then using username: CJOHNSON and password TIER3.) Be sure to APPLY when you’re […]
Quick, Quiet, and Wild
Wizards of the Coast has given 4e anticipaters a holiday present in the form of the entire Elf entry from the Player’s Handbook. (And no, there’s nothing about them building toys.) There’s nothing terribly shocking to those of us who have been following all the 4e previews: there’s no penalty to stats anymore, just bonuses, […]
Toss another Halfling into the endzone!
Spotted this at BGN: next year, expect a PC version of my favorite Games Workshop game Blood Bowl, with an Xbox 360 version to follow later in the year. This is not the first computer version of BB, but it has been a while: the previous one ran on DOS. The article has this to […]
Nasty, filthy, Hobbitses
The story that’s popping up all over almost every blog I’ve read today: New Line has kissed Peter Jackson’s ass enough so that he’ll come back to executive produce The Hobbit and an unnamed sequel to The Hobbit. (My vote is for Hobbit 2: Electric Bugaloo) Jackson, however, is looking unlikely to actually direct the […]
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