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“Transitions and Transformations” RPG Blog Carnival Roundup

January 8, 2009 by Dave

As usual, bloggers from all over took a simple one line concept and ran with it in all directions, many of them unexpected and all of them great. Here’s what they came up with in the final days of 2008 about “Transitions and Transformations.”

Filed Under: Featured, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: carnival, rpg blog carnival, transformations, transitions

Introducing: Skill Challenges Feature and Gato’s Critical Bits

January 7, 2009 by Dave

As you know, we here at Critical Hits are not just content to sit on our laurels and keep the way the site operates the same. We’re always looking for new ways to bring benefits to you, our valued readers.

To that end, we have launched two new pieces of the website that we hope you find useful.

Filed Under: Critical Bits, News, Roleplaying Games

‘The Magic Bullet for Publication’ by Wolfgang Baur

January 6, 2009 by Bartoneus

Kobold Quarterly was kind enough to offer up a chapter from The Kobold Guide to Game Design Volume II: How to Pitch, Playtest, and Publish by Wolfgang Baur, presented by Open Design. I was given the choice between two chapters and decided to leave it to the best decision maker, and rolled a d20. Suprisingly it came up a 20, and so I went with the “high” option which I’m very happy with, titled “The Magic Bullet for Publication”.

Filed Under: Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: design, game design, kobold guide to design, kobold quarterly, publication, publishing, Reviews, roleplaying, Roleplaying Games, woflgang baur

Chatty’s Reviews: Wolfgang Baur on Playtesting

January 6, 2009 by The Chatty DM

This post is part of a multi-blog review of Open Designs’ Kobold Guide to Game Design: Volume II, see the Hub page of the reviews here. A few days ago, my good friend Ben McFarland approached me and a few more bloggers to help him get the word out about Wolfgang Baur’s (you know, that […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Raiding the Library : Neal Stephenson’s worlds, Part 1

January 5, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Man, I haven’t felt like that in months!  I feel like spending the whole damn day at the keyboard and churn out thousands upon thousands of words just for the sake of it.  That’s always a good sign. I’m one avid reader.  I read novels by the buckets when I have the time to do […]

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

When Horror Meets Awesome: CthulhuTech

January 2, 2009 by Bartoneus

One thing that I never really expected to see released as an official product is the melding of the Cthulhu mythos with a futuristic-anime style setting, which is exactly what CthulhuTech presents.

Filed Under: Anime, Featured, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Tagged With: call of cthulhu, cthulhu, cthulhutech, horror, roleplaying, Roleplaying Games

The Rule of Cool takes flak

January 1, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Its interesting to note that several bloggers, especially of the old School variety (here and here) are taking a stance against the Rule of Cool as applied to Role Playing Games. Being one of the proponents of it, having written about it and made part of my success as a blogger around it, I feel […]

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

Chatty’s Goals for 2009

January 1, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Happy new year everyone! I’m sitting at home on the evening of the 31st, getting ready to churn out another multi-hundred words post. Last year I did a list of objectives of the things I wanted from my blog, my personal life and my DMing. Like I said back then, I don’t believe in resolutions, […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

A year gone by…

December 31, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Wow… that’s been quite a year. 2008 marked my first full year as a RPG blogger. It was also a year filled with amazing achievements and some humbling realizations. I intially wanted to review last year’s objectives but after  agonizing over that post for 2 days I decided to drop it and take another tack. […]

Filed Under: blogging, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Last Day for December ’08 Blog Carnival

December 31, 2008 by Dave

Today is the last day for the latest RPG Blog Carnival about “Transitions and Transformations” before UncleBear takes over . So if you want to get an entry into this month’s carnival, you want to do it today and leave a comment on the post. And even if you have written an entry for the carnival, […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: blog carnival, transformations, transitions

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