Let’s continue our week of mini reviews now shall we? Dominion What it is. Dominion is a non-collectible constructable card game where each player plays the part of an ambitious minor noble who aims at turning its modest estate into a dominion of provinces and duchies. Players play cards from their decks to generate enough […]
Inq. of the Week: Gaming Women
Conventional wisdom and surveys show that women are in the minority among gaming groups of all kinds, but I think the ratio is starting to shift. We touched on the issue almost three years ago (to a bit of controversy) but I’d like to pose a slightly less loaded question…
Capsule Review Week: Swords & Wizardry
As introduced here, I will post mini-reviews of RPGs and MMORPGs during the whole week while I prepare for Draconis, my local gaming convention. Swords & Wizardry What it is A clone of the original, 1974 version of Dungeons & Dragons (often referred to as 0th edition). It includes all the non-proprietary elements of the […]
Capsule Review Week: Intro and DDO Eberron unlimited
I’ll be spending most of the coming week preparing for Montreal’s Draconis gaming convention (where I’ll host a Dungeon Reality Show game, 2 Swords and Wizardry games and both a French and English Seminar on DMing 4e). While I initially thought I’d take the week off from Blogging, my evil backstabbing mastermind lieutenant PM mentioned […]
Champions Online: Being 13 Forever
Oh yeah, like some others, I succumbed to to the Champions Online bug. I’ll post a short review later this week but in the meantime I had to share a few screenshots of my latest PC, the 4th I made so far. And I confess that I really am nothing more than a 13 year […]
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-10-10
Just updated the Character Class Reference w/ Seeker (Primal Controller) Just updated the Character Race Reference w/ Vistani (from Ravenloft!) Coming Soon: The Anarchist Gamemaster Cookbook: Recipes For Games That Don’t Suck by Sinister Adventures Guide to 4e Accessories updated with i4e iPhone app and Litko 4e Tokens Seeker Class Preview: Primal Controller (ddi sub […]
4th Power Project: Classes, Part 3 (Other Powers)
The beginnings of some at-will powers were posted last week– not all of them by any means, but I figured it was a start. Now as I mentioned then, at-will powers should come up fairly often, and be the stand-bys. The other powers are Per Scene (formerly Per Encounter) and Per Session (formerly Per Day.) […]
Our Ladies of Sorrow: Modern Gaming, Scary Women
I’m always on the lookout for solid modern adventures. But many of them fall into the more cinematic style where everyone is an action hero, spy, or both, thus making the subset of adventures I’m looking for even smaller. That’s why I was happy to be provided with a review copy of Our Ladies of Sorrow, a new adventure collection for Call of Cthulhu RPG by Miskatonic River Press.
Friday Chat (Early edition): Are you a Backseat GM?
I’m posting this early since I will have limited net access tomorrow. On Friday night, I get to lay aside my Dungeon Master’s Screen, maps, stack of books and other DM paraphernalia to grab a lone piece of paper, one rule book, a set of dice, a pencil and a mini. I get to play […]
City of the Overmind: Rumble in the Vats 3D, Part 2
See part 1 here. The interesting thing about a D&D session that consisted entirely of one fight is that I can relate it through the classic phases of a D&D combat encounter. What’s that you say? Over the last 10 years, ever since I started playing 3e, I noticed that all fun combat encounters shared […]
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