We haven’t done an Inquisition of the Week in a while, and though we don’t plan on doing them every week I will simply call this an Inquisition as we will be doing one every now and then. Today I’d like to ask all of you about the Essentials line of products for Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition that are releasing this month, starting with the Red Box that is already out and continuing for the next few months with the limited run of products.
Critical Bits for the week ending 2010-09-12
From the Archives:: How to Compare Birds to Fish http://bit.ly/9Rz1zn #charchive # From the Archives:: Enter my Nemesis: Wolfgang Baur! http://bit.ly/bXb1Tc #charchive # RT @geekdo: Vote on Nominees for the 2010 Golden Geek Awards in Board Gaming and RPGs! http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/561343/ # New "In the Works" column contains more about Gamma World, including the Character Origins […]
Is Your Home Campaign Organized?
If this column takes more than an hour to load, then you will know what my earliest experiences with computer games were like. So I’ll take RPGs every time, whether they are home campaigns or organized-play offerings.
The PAX Report
Like all good things, PAX ended. Due to required nuptial witnessing, it ended on Saturday for me. Oh, I’m not bitter. In fact, I feel privileged that PAX is local. With all this good stuff happening before, during, and after the show, it’s sure to become one of my yearly rituals. Here are some high points of my trip to the show.
Tales of the Apocalypse Part 2, Reprisal at Ambush Hill
In which Chatty recounts his first Apocalypse world session right after character creation. A fight, an explosion, some threats and a love scene, just like in the movies!
Tales of Horror: D&D for TWEENS
Imagine a world in which the D&D you know and love is reimagined and marketed to tweens. Now look at this duck. Now look at me. Look at this double scoop of horror. WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Nothing. Now it is fear diamonds.
Tales of the Apocalypse: Part 1, Character Creation
A few weeks ago, I reviewed Vincent Baker’s Apocalypse World Role Playing Game and found it very well written and intriguing and enough to give it a few session’s worth of tries. I brought the whole crew back together and we sat down to create characters.
Critical Bits for the week ending 2010-09-05
From the Archives:: Finally a manual for the rest of them! http://bit.ly/8Yc6iY #charchive # Preview of the Rules Compendium http://www.enworld.org/forum/4e-discussion/291694-essentials-rules-compendium-preview-copy-hand.html # Gamma World unboxing from @therobotviking http://www.robotviking.com/2010/08/30/exclusive-gamma-world-unboxing-video/ # "Unearthed Arcana" returns as a Dragon magazine feature for "unofficial" variant content http://bit.ly/c4XYlg # RT @gregbilsland: It’s a Trap!: http://wp.me/pPNTx-5Q #
The Unneccesary Evil?
Without boxed text to rule an encounter, will anarchy reign? A continuation of the discussion of boxed text, in which Thomas Paine get invoked and a cockfight breaks out.
Minions on the Table
Monsters can lose a battle before it begins if they have bad tactical positions. This is even truer with minions. Even if we assume, narratively, that your minions have no way to know they’re little competition for the characters, the creatures have a reason to seize tactical advantages.
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