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The Soft Landing: Pax East Highlights

March 29, 2010 by The Chatty DM

Late night board gaming, meeting Wil Wheaton, running the DM challenge, and much more in the Chatty DM’s trip to Pax East.
Oh, and Silver Bulettes that crap gravitational anomalies.

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM, Player Psychology, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4E d&d, Burning Wheel, pax, wil wheaton

Review: “Treasure of Talon Pass”

September 2, 2008 by Dave

Synopsis: “Treasure of Talon Pass” is a an adventure for 4e D&D designed to take 2nd level characters to 3rd level. It is a fairly typical dungeon crawl that works well enough but also does not take advantage of environments and non-combat elements enough to make it more interesting than a string of combats. Production: […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, 4E d&d, fourth edition, free rpg day, treasure of talon pass

4th Edition: Class Acts

June 25, 2008 by Bartoneus

In the convoluted web of intrigue that blogs create, Phil (the Chatty DM) led me to a link via a guest post at Geek’s Dream Girl, to a very cool fan-created Bard class for 4th Edition.  Unlike some other fan-created classes for the new edition, this one actually boasts a complete list of powers/’sploits from […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, Editorial, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4E d&d, 4th Edition, class roles, D&D, Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons

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