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Watchmen Trailer

July 17, 2008 by Bartoneus

If you haven’t heard yet, the Watchmen trailer is out!  I believe it’s showing before The Dark Knight, in which case I’ll be very excited to see it on the big screen at midnight tonight.  But do you really think you’d have to wait until then to see it, of course not!  You can check it out […]

Filed Under: Comics, Featured, Movies Tagged With: Comics, dc comics, Movies, the watchmen, the watchmen movie, watchmen, watchmen movie

Moderates have fun too!

July 17, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Okay so 2 days ago I posted a rant against the mere concept of the Tyranny of Fun. Now not only was I surprised to get some feedback from Mike Mearls (giving yours truly a fanboi moment) but I was absolutely astounded at the civil, dynamic exchange of point of views.  Out of the post […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

D&D 4E: First Major Round of Errata

July 17, 2008 by Bartoneus

Wizards has posted errata and updates to the 4th Edition D&D core rulebooks, and there are quite a bit of changes / fixes.  Head over to the Wizard’s site and check out the text pdf’s, I’ve printed them out and am wondering how exactly I am going to efficiently going to use them. Some highlights […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, 4th Edition, D&D, Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons

Stop Having Fun: My Game is Better than your Game

July 17, 2008 by Dave

Spinning out of Chatty’s discussion on the “Tyranny of Fun“, we see that what a lot of the argument boils down to is that people have different playstyles and tastes, and different games meet those playstyles and tastes. However, many of the “Edition Warriors” out there attempt to frame it as a matter of one […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Editorial, Roleplaying Games

Report Card: Space Marine Units (Part 2)

July 16, 2008 by originalsultan

This is part 2 of my examination into the units in the 4th edition Codex Space Marines.  This part features the Elites and Fast Attack sections of the force organization chart.  For the overview of what all of this means, see the original article.  Therein you will find my analysis of the HQ, Troops and […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, Reviews, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre

Tidbits from E3 that I have liked

July 16, 2008 by Dave

Since, for some reason, our tickets to E3 never arrived, I’ve been following the news through a few of the big video game blogs, and picking some things out that interest me: Xbox 360 will be able to stream Netflix movies if you have a subscription. I’ve never gotten the streaming video to work on […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, Video Games

I’m finally done!

July 16, 2008 by The Chatty DM

After nearly 3 weeks of procrastination, World of Warcrafting and some serious intense writing, I’m finally done with preparing my half of the GM-Fu Gen Con Seminar. I wrote about 12-14 pages of tips and tricks on Tropes and Player types motivations. A lot of it is original stuff (as I felt bad recycling too […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

The Tyranny of Fun…is a Load of Pure Unbridled BS!

July 15, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’m starting to get annoyed at all the hate being spewed about the Tyranny of Fun, whatever the fuck that expression means. I won’t link to any of them as I find that a rational discourse on this is nigh impossible seeing how emotionnaly charged the atmosphere around that screwed up concept is. Google it […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Player Psychology, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Rant

YouTubes of the Week Versus the Zombies Edition

July 15, 2008 by Dave

Two videos featuring some unlikely zombie killers. The first, the trailer for the movie Chanbara Beauty, sent to me by the Chatty DM who claims to have seen the movie and still has his eyes intact. The second, a music video featuring Gorbachev as Conan fighting zombies, which was first featured by Amber Night.

Filed Under: Movies, Music, Video Games, YouTube Tuesday

Report Card: Space Marine Units (Part 1)

July 14, 2008 by originalsultan

With Warhammer 40k entering its 5th edition as of this past Friday, one chapter of the game’s history comes to an end, while another begins. As I thought about the past edition I decided it would be good to take one last look at all of the units in the Space Marine Codex. There are always […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, Reviews, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre

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