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YouTube Tuesday: I Am Super Lucky Golden Iron Man Edition

August 4, 2009 by Dave

Test animation for an Iron Man anime, the final of which is to be written by Warren Ellis. Below, a similar test animation for the Wolverine anime, also to be written by Ellis, but that doesn’t look nearly as good.

Filed Under: Anime, Comics, Movies, YouTube Tuesday

But my father was a blacksmith! – Crafting in 4E

August 4, 2009 by guest

Hi there.  My name is Rob, a.k.a. “A Hero”, from A Hero Twice A Month.  While I can be a chatty DM at times, I am not the ChattyDM.  Still, he was nice enough to let me post my thoughts about crafting items while he is off on his GenCon hiatus. When the game designers […]

Filed Under: Game Hacks & Content, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, advice

Handling A Legion Of Padded Supermen

August 3, 2009 by Wyatt Salazar

Hi there everyone, this is Wyatt Salazar, the world’s only biological nuclear reactor (CAUTION CAUTION) from The Spirits of Eden and now also The Amusing Fantasy, standing in for the Chatty DM who’s currently questing for Gen Con, as you know. He still has plenty of healing surges and daily powers left and I wish […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Inq. of the Week: Non-RPG Content?

August 3, 2009 by Bartoneus

Well voting for the ENnies closed over the weekend, first and foremost I’d like to extend our thanks and appreciation to everyone who voted for us! No matter what you ranked our site compared to the others, they all help and hopefully we will be pleasantly surprised at the ceremony during GenCon.

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week Tagged With: Anime, boardgames, Comics, content, Inquisition of the Week, Movies, Poker, Roleplaying Games, videogames, webcomic

Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-08-01

August 1, 2009 by Gato the News Robot

Cool post from @RyanMacklin about Montages for D&D 4e Keith Baker has begun to write up his gaming/traveling adventures in Have Dice, WIll Travel Diana Jones Award nominees announced Tom Vasel’s evil twin reviews “Are You The Traitor?” 4e conversion for “Elder Evils” book Don’t Care Much About The ENnies? NECA buys Heroclix (via @merb101) […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits Tagged With: twitter

Time is running out to vote for Critical Hits! Voting ends Saturday Night!

July 31, 2009 by Dave

You only have until the end of Saturday, 8/1 to vote for us in the 2009 Ennie Awards for Best Website. (Remember, you don’t need to vote for any other category if you don’t want to, and 1 is best!) We just reached 1500 RSS feed subscribers today, and so if we got all of […]

Filed Under: News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: ennies, shameless pimping

The One Page Dungeon Codex (and More!)

July 31, 2009 by The Chatty DM

For those too excited to read: The One Page Dungeon Codex 2009 The Combined One Page Dungeons These last few weeks, Chgowiz and I have been working at delivering on our promise of creating a special PDF file that brought together the very best entries from the contest One Page Dungeon contest. Well the wait […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: one page dungeon

I Didn’t Know You Could Do That With 4E: Adventure-Length Effects

July 31, 2009 by guest

Hey everybody!  My name is Brad Gardner.  I’m a long time D&D player.  Currently I’m DMing a game for some friends (The “Savage Tide” adventure path, converted to 4E) as well as writing for the RPGA’s Living Forgotten Realms campaign.  As of GenCon 2009, I’ll have the privilege of having five adventures published for the […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Quick Review: Adventure Art – Issue #1

July 30, 2009 by Bartoneus

Mythic Design has released a new product called Adventure Art in a series of issues, with the subtitle “Professional Artwork for Use in Your Roleplaying Games”.  They were kind enough to provide us with the first issue which is for May/June 2009, which is a nice looking collection of artwork from the archives of AvatarArt.com.  […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: adventure art, avatar art, issue 1, mythic design, Reviews, Roleplaying Games, roleplaying games, tabletop

Hands On: Monster Builder Beta

July 30, 2009 by Dave

The Monster Builder was released today to DDI subscribers, allowing us to build our own monsters for 4e. Of course, we could already do that… through Asmor’s Monster Maker, the Dungeonmastering Tools, or WotC’s own bonus tools utility. So what does the new software bring to the table?

Filed Under: Featured, News, Reviews, Roleplaying Games

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