Previous 4th Power Posts Well, I missed my first deadline by not posting feats last week. They ended up being more tricky than I thought. 4e and d20 feats all seem to be more combat-oriented, which was always my complaint with systems like Call of Cthulhu d20. Anyway, I had a hard time coming up […]
Warhammer the Smart Way: How to Play the Game Without Emptying Your Wallet
The most common complaint associated with Games Workshop games is that they are too expensive. But fear not friends! This is an expensive hobby, but there are ways to stretch your money and keep some of it in your wallet.
My take on Influenza and the Vaccine
I’m taking a break from my self-imposed Blog Silence to broach a subject that is slowly making me crazy: The influenza epidemic and the absolutely stupid conspiracy theories behind it. I swear to god, if I hear another discussion about autism, microchips and/or programmed genocide, I’m going to blow a gasket. This post Is inspired […]
YouTube Tuesday: It’s Halloween and These Have Zombies in Them Edition
Yep, I got nothing this week. These are both Thriller-related, so why not?
Inq. of the Week: Frequency of Play?
This week I’d like to take a look at how often all of you play tabletop RPGs. My own D&D campaign has been on a short hiatus for four weeks now and will be resuming in early November, but leading into the holiday season I’m scared the schedule is going to be disrupted for the next few adventures.
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-10-24
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 […]
2 weeks Notice: Brainstorm Slowdown
I’ve thought long and hard how to best present this but the announcement that I was stepping down from managing the RPG Bloggers Network muddles the original intent. So I’ll do what I do best and I’ll tell you a story. When I came back from Gen Con last year, I had learned that I […]
Preview: “Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons”
In previous editions, metallic dragons were good aligned, meaning that a DM would have to either create reasons that that the dragons were violently opposed to the PCs, or just ignore the “Always Lawful Good” and similar alignments. This default assumption has changed a bit, tossing many of the metallic dragons squarely into the Unaligned category. Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons provides a variety of motivations for metallic dragons and gives you some new metallics for good measure.
Tales of Draconis, Part 4 and Epilogue
Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. Mutant Future, GM by Walkerp Mutant Future is that weird, weird game that came out of labyrinth Lord publisher Goblinoid Game. Contrary to Labyrinth, Mutant Future (MF) is not so much a retro-clone of Gamma Worlds (or it’s predecessor Metamorphosis Alpha) but rather a new game built on […]
Tales of Draconis, Part 3
See parts 1 and 2 here and here. Seminars, The Tricks of the Successful 4e DM, English There’s a French expression I coined one day to describe how different my brother and I were. It goes ‘Nous sommes comme le jour et la pluie” which translates less poetically into “We are like day and […]
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