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4th Power Project: First Level Characters

October 30, 2009 by Dave

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 […]

Filed Under: Critical Threats, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th power, 4th power project

Warhammer the Smart Way: How to Play the Game Without Emptying Your Wallet

October 30, 2009 by originalsultan

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.

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Tagged With: 40k, army, Games Workshop, Hobby, miniatures, Space Marine, tabletop, warhammer, Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy

My take on Influenza and the Vaccine

October 29, 2009 by The Chatty DM

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 […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM

YouTube Tuesday: It’s Halloween and These Have Zombies in Them Edition

October 27, 2009 by Dave

Yep, I got nothing this week. These are both Thriller-related, so why not?

Filed Under: Music, YouTube Tuesday Tagged With: halloween, zombies

Inq. of the Week: Frequency of Play?

October 26, 2009 by Bartoneus

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.

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: games, gaming, gender, group, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games, women

Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-10-24

October 24, 2009 by Gato the News Robot

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 […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits Tagged With: twitter

2 weeks Notice: Brainstorm Slowdown

October 23, 2009 by The Chatty DM

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 […]

Filed Under: blogging, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Freelance Writing

Preview: “Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons”

October 22, 2009 by Dave

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.

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, draconomicon, dragons

Tales of Draconis, Part 4 and Epilogue

October 22, 2009 by The Chatty DM

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 […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Tales of Draconis, Part 3

October 21, 2009 by The Chatty DM

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 […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, Burning Wheel, Mouseguard, seminar

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