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Hold Your Breath Wheel of Time Fans

August 13, 2008 by The Main Event

Universal Pictures has acquired film rights to the late Robert Jordan’s bestselling “The Wheel of Time” novel series in a seven-figure deal. Now, I may have some complaints about the series, but it sure does do a lot of things right.  I liked the idea of a mini series more, but maybe a movie done […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, Movies, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre

Review: Alone in the Dark

August 12, 2008 by joshx0rfz

So about a week and a half ago The Game received a review copy of Alone In the Dark, a somewhat new game from Atari and Eden Games released June 24th. A PS3 port is to come later, possibly September. The demo is being released pretty soon if not already. Alone in the Dark is […]

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews, Video Games

New 4e errata release

August 12, 2008 by Tonester

WoTC has served up their latest helping of errata for 4e.  While most of it appears to be simple clarifications and actual fixes for typos, there are a few morsels worth noting and savoring. Some Endurance checks are more difficult Active Perception checks are a Minor Action instead of  Standard Action Stealth completely rewritten (move […]

Filed Under: News, Roleplaying Games

Extreme Makeover: Tavern Edition

August 12, 2008 by guest

Howdy all, from your friendly neighborhood Storyteller. I’ll be your guest blogger this fine afternoon in Chatty DM’s continued absence. I’m a young’un when it comes to the RPG blogosphere though I’ve been a roleplayer since middleschool and help to run the RPG club (Adventurers Wanted) at my university. Trust me when I say, there […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

YouTube of the Week: Shameless Self Promotion Part 2 Edition

August 12, 2008 by Dave

Just as with last year, I am inflicting upon you the movie I helped make in 48.25 hours. It is not eligible for the YouTube of the Year award, despite being awesome.

Filed Under: YouTube Tuesday

Inq. of the Week: GenCon?/YouTube of the Year Nominations

August 11, 2008 by Dave

How much do we like to fight in our RPGs? 43% of you enjoy half your time being taken up with kicking butt, whereas closely behind 40% of you like the majority of your game to be hack and slash. Only 1% of you enjoy no-combat games. This probably reflects our audience more than it […]

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, YouTube Tuesday

WotC to revise GSL: that’ll give us something to interview about

August 11, 2008 by Dave

With the evergrowing list of publishers not signing the GSL (or choosing their own alternatives), it looks like the message finally got through to someone: “We recognize the important role third party publishing support plays in the success of the 4th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons. We have listened to the community and our valued […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, News, Roleplaying Games

Afterschool TV Tropes Special: Location. Location? Location!

August 10, 2008 by Dave

Dave Chalker, AKA Dave The Game here (from that other website) (and that other, other website) filling in for the Chatty One while he does whatever it is Canadians do on vacation. I decided to aim high. Sure, I could have done a post about RPG blogging, on how to snare your friends into writing […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Tropes

2 Hugo Awards, and one other scoop from WorldCon

August 9, 2008 by Dave

Not that I normally cover them, but I’m receiving word (via text message from my mother at WorldCon) that the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form) went to Stardust, and Best Novel went to The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon. EDIT: A Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) went to the Doctor Who episode […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, Movies, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre

War is Coming

August 9, 2008 by The O

Greetings all, For the past year or so I’ve received monthly newsletter updates on the progress of the upcoming MMORPG Warhammer Online: Age of reckoning. Just the past week, I recieved the “newsletter you have all been waiting for” and by that I mean Mythic Entertainment (finally) has announced a release date for their long […]

Filed Under: News, Video Games

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