I know how it is. You want to try out the new edition of D&D, but you don’t want to put down the $90 for new books. What’s more, you don’t want to go through the drudgery of buying it from a store: you’d much rather have a Canadian mail it to you. Well, fear […]
Magic Online III Beta.
I’m too tired to write a post tonight so I’m sharing a little Magic the Gathering goodness to those who would like to play for free (I think you need to have a Magic Online 2,5 account though). Magic Online players, We’re hoping that you, along with thousands of other MOL players across the globe […]
Mini-Blog: Recent and coming changes to Blog.
I’m currently moving a few things around this blog and changing things as I grow more comfortable with it. In parallel, Graham is hacking me a new swanky theme and I’ll switch to it as soon as everything is done (and you’ll finally see the new banner). So while we wait here are a few […]
Chatty’s Review: Silvervine, Basic Challenge Mechanics
This post is part of a series that tackles the reading review of a yet unpublished RPG called Silvervine. Please note that this game is still in development, my review is part of the pre-playtest feedback. Last time I tackled Character Generation, now it’s time for the 1st (of 3) posts on the game’s Crunchy […]
Smash Brothers Spoilers!
With Smash Bros. for the Wii being delayed even longer, many of us are drooling with anticipation for the newest entry in Nintendo’s mashed-up fighter franchise. Well, Kotaku has a full set of screen shots that reveal a lot of the missing details, namely a full mostly full character select screen (posted after the jump) […]
Mini-Post: Shamus' new game
Yesterday, Shamus Young posted about concluding his D&D campaign and starting a new one. One of his key challenges was that everybody in his large group (8 players) wanted to play a different style/theme than the rest. D&D was chosen last time because it’s the default game that his group seems to have agreed to. […]
YouTube of the Week: (Super)Friends Edition
A Sword of Truth done Xena Style?
So, news is floating around that Sam Raimi is going to a fantasy syndication of Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth series. I have decidedly ambivalent feelings about this. The first book was really great, but it included… mature… themes such as man-boy rape, sado-masochistic torture-magic-sex, and satanic summoning (no joke). That being said, the series […]
Mining Tropes for RPG Goodness: You, Bastard!
As promised, after having covered the Overlord trope in all (well at least some of) its RPG glory, I now want to tackle another of my favorite character tropes: The Magnificent Bastard (I’m making no reference whatever to any good friend of mine, honest!) Love him or hate him, there’s a certain type of character […]
Inq. of the Week: Blub Blub Blub?
Though they may not be able to survive in-game, Bards received the most votes for being able to survive into the next edition. I voted for them, but I have to say I’m quite surprised. Druids and Monks were right there too, which probably means that all three of these classes have a unique flavor […]
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