I’m planning on attending a number of conventions in the upcoming months. I thought I’d share my plans, and how it relates to Critical Hits. February D&D Experience: Bartoneus and I are planning on attending, and trying to interview members of the 4e design team. We also plan to try to play some 4e ourselves, […]
Tweaking Classes for Cooler Characters: The Shaper postmortem
A while back, Yan and I designed a new D&D core class based on the Monster Manual’s Pixie and Monte Cook’s variant Sorcerer (from the Complete book of Eldritch Might, or CBoEM) called the Shaper. Yan has been using/playtesting it for the last 6 or 7 sessions in our game. For reasons I explained yesterday, […]
Adventure Prep: When the end of an era draws near
This post is part of a series that covers the preparations I do for my current D&D campaign. You can follow it here and the various DM logs I wrote here. Yup it’s another game week for Chatty’s gang as I pick up and read through Expeditions to the Demonweb pits and try to hack […]
Registered for Gen Con!
Well it’s done. I registered for Gen Con and I booked the Hotel. I’ll be staying at the swanky Omni Severin hotel which, apparently, sits about 0,2 miles from the Convention Center. Wee! It’s going to be my 1st stay in Indianapolis and my 1st Gen Con experience. I’ll stock up on sleep beforehand! Here’s […]
Pathfinder #4 preview: Wolfgang Baur must really hate me
This is a continuing series of short posts on Paizo’s Pathfinder adventure path magazine. The image is Copyright 2007 Paizo Publishings. Yeah I haven’t done one of those in quite some time (Dec 7 to be more precise) for a very good reason, I never got my #4 issue of Pathfinder (written by none other […]
Inq. of the Week: Edition to the Fourth
It just goes to show you, if Dave puts up a picture of a giant squid most of the people are going to vote for that entry! Kraken/Giant Squid pulled out the win as most popular aquatic menace, beating out the great old Cthulhu and Dagon. I am personally amazed that the Giant Lobster (sticks […]
4E D&D… 4Free!
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 […]
D&D to Warhammer: Can You Help?
This week we received our first ever question to the editor from a reader, and he’s looking for some help. Chris is a high-school teacher in New York who is the advisor to the students’ Warhammer club. Chris is an avid D&D player with plenty of minis. The students want to have a big Warhammer […]
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 […]
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. […]
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