Hi, my name is Michael Wolf, author of Stargazer’s World. Some time ago, Barb, a homeschooling mom from California contacted me. She had read about my background in physics and asked me if I ever had ever thought about combining D&D and science. For some time she has paid DMs with backgrounds in different scientific […]
Review: “Dungeon Master’s Guide 2”
For Dungeon Masters of all stripes, new and experienced both, the DMG2 is a must-have and will challenge the ideas of even someone who regularly dispenses advice on running RPGs (such as myself). This is the first 4e book that I can recommend to non-4e players for the strength of the first chapter alone. Plus, for 4e DMs, you get an extension of all that came before in the original DMG.
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-09-12
DMG2 and Revenge of the Giants have been released into the wild Revamped Dead Gentlemen site is up, with new videos A rough take on the One Ring as a D&D 4E artifact (via @wordwill) FIVE DRAGONS and DAMN FINE PI on sale now (via @BerinKinsman) Apply to be a beta tester for the Settlers […]
The 4th Power Project: Background and Kickoff
I am happy to announce a new series of columns here at Critical-Hits, authored by myself. It represents something we’ve never tried doing here before, coupled with a project that I’m quite excited about, and I hope you will be too.
Primal/Within Chronicles: City of the Overmind, Part 4
See part 3 here. Oh noes! Failure! After recovering the key part from the Merchant “Prince” the players consulted the Map. Math: All right, the next closest thing is the Vats, let’s go! Eric: No, let’s do the Vats last, we’ll be able to bust them after and then go do Rocco, Franky and Mike’s […]
Interview: Joshua Stevens of Open Design
Open Design is the Wolfgang Baur-led studio effort for designing roleplaying game adventures, primarily for D&D. Open Design uses a unique model to make the adventures: instead of the traditional single designer or corporate team effort, Open Design uses a patronage model where anyone can contribute to a project by paying in and then weighing […]
Primal/Within Chronicles: City of the Overmind, Part 3
See part 2 here. Stealth and the Art of Not Getting Killed in a Hostile City Chatty DM: So what do you want to do first? Yan: Well, we’ll start my goal of trying to find rumors about the possible location of the key pats. Chatty: All right then let’s make this a 5 part […]
Inq. of the Week: Tiers of Play?
Dave and I both started running 4th Edition D&D campaigns when the system was released, now over a year later Dave’s game is solidly into the paragon tier while mine looks to be entering paragon in the next few weeks.
Primal/Within Chronicles: City of the Overmind, Part 2
See part 1 here. Burning Dungeon & Wheel Dragons As Wednesday night was ticking by, a dangerous new idea about the way to run a D&D adventure came up… You see, like many gamers unused to indie RPG designs, I read Mouse Guard with voracity but finished it with the feeling that while I had […]
YouTube Tuesday: Stop Motion + Lego + 8 Bit = Win
A stop-motion animation over 1500 hours in the making that has to be seen to be believed.
Recent Comments