RT @mikemearls: Expedition to the Barrier Peaks made Wikipedia's front page! Big thanks to the D&D fans who contribute to Wikipedia. #dnd # New #dnd updates for July released: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/updates Big changes to some core powers # RT @mudbunny74: MB and Compendium update pushed back 'till July 20th. #wotc #ddi # Interview over at Gamasutra […]
2010 Ennie Nominations Announced (with Recommendations)
It’s that time of year again, when the big RPG award nominees of the year are announced, after careful consideration and selection by a panel of judges voted on by the community. The full list of nominees for the year are available on their site. And of course, we’d like to call out our new favorite category…
Canon Fodder
In a Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting context, canon can be defined as imagined world history up to just a moment ago. It can also encompass dozens of smaller stories, as with the Forgotten Realms setting and its embracing of novels as canon. Game setting canon can also include differences from core assumptions. Defining differences can make a game world stand apart from its peers. You just have to be careful where you point your canon.
Magic 2011 Core Set Preview
The new core set for Magic: The Gathering (M11) is set to release in just over a week, and we’ve received a few preview cards just like we did with the previous set Rise of the Eldrazi. I am currently an extremely casual M:tG player and seeing the new sets that come out usually means two things for me, the first is that my friends and I will most likely try to plan a booster draft in the coming weeks and the second is that I absolutely love seeing how the game has changed since I started playing it.
The Final Stage of a RPG Group: Dissolution
I thought I was done with this increasingly inaccurately named “4-stages of RPG group development series” when I wrote the last part about Stagnation, but recent event in my gaming group lead me to a painful decision and I thought that tackling it as an addendum to the series would be a good idea.
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Critical Bits for the week ending 2010-07-04
Dixit wins Spiel Des Jahres (via @boardgamenews) http://bit.ly/aNpKlM # Check out @JaredvonHindman's Playing Evil Races D&D Outsider article about monstrous races http://bit.ly/aw9HTA # One Cool Thing I Saw at Origins 2010 http://youtu.be/A7yDNjdiXgo # Updated the Origins Awards post with links to some of the products nominated (mainly with our affiliate links) http://is.gd/d8dmQ # RT @thekiko: […]
Roludothon 1 Report: The Sea patrol.
Continuing his Roludothon convention report, Chatty relates his 1st Mouse Guard experience as a player.
Origins 2010: Final Round-Up
Origins has once again come and gone. Due to various scheduling mishaps with the convention and technical problems, we didn’t get to do much in the way of scheduled gaming, and spend our time looking for things to do. Here’s just a sample of some of the stuff that we did do and I was excited about in the convention.
Mailbag 8—All By Myself, Part 5
This final piece is all about the competition for your solos—the players and their characters. You design encounters to challenge those others at your game table, so almost all of this series has really been about them anyway. Rather than the mechanics of making and using solo creatures, this section focuses on engaging players, and keeping them that way, and allowing characters to shine against a solo.
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