We’re coming up on our 4th anniversary this week (expect our usual yearly wrap-up this Thursday), and this year, we thought we’d do something fun. At gaming conventions this year, we asked our interview subjects about their favorite critical hit story (from any game.) We got some great responses, and will be typing those up this week, but we’d like to open the floor to you!
Creativity and the RPG Mind: Part 1, Introduction
With the recent completion of my series revisiting Robin Laws’ Rules of Good Game Mastering, I’ve been thinking about starting a new one. Then it hit me. What if I tackled creativity and it’s role in regards to RPG players and GMs . You see, I’m well aware that I have a high level of […]
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-09-26
Primal Power Spoilers at RPG.net Check out the Wired.com GeekDad interview about Going Cardboard! A D&D monster in the making if I’ve ever seen one, the Bearsharktopus! Design: Kory Heath (Uptown) explains how he developed Blockhouse for the iPhone (via BoardgameNews) A review of Blockhouse Fascinating blog about the intersection of videogames, RPGs, Classics, and […]
The 4th Power Project: Core Classes, Part 1
Here’s some actual crunch: the core classes. Just as in d20 Modern, there’s one base class for each ability score. This setup is intuitive, and also allows for the different kind of teams you see in so many shows and movies.
Review: “Fantasy Craft”
Fantasy Craft is a D&D 3.0 OGL full-service RPG that boasts a robust set of classes, innovative and interesting feats, and a refreshing skill-based system of spell casting. With systems for item crafting, downtime for players, acquisition of holdings, prestige, and reputation it fills a gap that many have criticized as absent from the current 4.0 rules set.
Chatty’s review: X-Treme Dungeon Mastery, Part 2
This is a review of Tracy and Curtis Hickman’s X-Treme Dungeon Mastery, done through the voice of 2 alter Egos of mine, Phil and Tony, see part 1 to learn more about it. For part 2, let’s switch who gets to say what first. The Theory of XDM Tony: All right, the section starts with […]
Chatty’s review: X-Treme Dungeon Mastery, Part 1
There’s a Method to my Madness Shortly before Gen Con and after completing the very long series of blog posts about Robin Laws’ Rules of Good Game Mastering, I contacted Tracy Hickman and asked if he could send me a review copy of his newest book, X-treme Dungeon Mastery. He was gracious enough to do […]
YouTube Tuesday: What Would Gordon Freeman Do? Edition
What happens when video game characters come to life, giant sized, and terrorize the city (and in particular, a group of video game fans)? You get Cloverbrawl, this 20 minute film that is amazingly made and combines horror and comedy. Part 1 up top, Part 2 below the fold. (via Offworld)
City of the Overmind: Of Beholders and Mind Control, Part 2
See part 1 here. House of the all seeing Eye As the PCs entered the administrative building of the re-education camp, I described how the first floor was deserted and was reminiscent of a U-store where the whole floor was separated in compartment where stuff could be stored. Said stuff was mostly armor, weapons and […]
City of the Overmind: Of Beholders and Mind Control, Part 1
Previously in Chatty’s Game Our heroes were transported into a monstrous city ruled by a mad, fascist Mind Flayer called The Overmind. After learning that there were pieces of a key to the Flayer’s castle strewn all over the city, the adventurers set out to seek them out. They obtained one from a friend and […]
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