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4th Edition: Paragon Multi-Classing

September 10, 2008 by Bartoneus

Last Wednesday I took a more detailed look at heroic tier multi-classing in 4th Edition D&D, which included a fully multi-classed character at 10th level becoming roughly 2/3 primary class and 1/3 secondary class.  Quite a lot of discussion surfaced after last week’s post, but one interesting point was made that the power-swap feats feel […]

Filed Under: Featured, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, D&D, d&d 4e, dnd, dnd 4e, dnd4e, Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons, epic tier, multi-classing, paragon tier

4th Edition: Playtest a Barbarian

September 4, 2008 by Bartoneus

Second Edit: See here for the Barbarian release, no fooling! Edit: It appears Wizards has removed this snippet from the Table of Contents, sorry everyone! The table of contents for Dragon #367 is up, and it looks like we’ll be getting an early look at the Barbarian class from the PHB 2 that won’t be […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, barbarian, D&D, dnd, dnd 4e, dragon magazine, Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons

A Closer Look at 4th Edition Multi-Classing

September 3, 2008 by Bartoneus

I’ve heard over and over again, from various people, that they feel multi-classing in 4th Edition just isn’t worth it.  I even got to the point of asking several of the Wizards staffers if their current games (each staffer seems to be playing in several games of 4e) had any higher level multi-classed characters that […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, D&D, dnd 4e, Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons, multi-classing, multiclass

Preview: D&D Insider

August 16, 2008 by Bartoneus

This afternoon Dave and I had the chance to talk to Randy Buehler and Didier Monin while they showed us some of the D&D Insider features.  Dave will be posting an interview that we conducted with Mike Mearls, Scott Rouse, and Randy Buehler which will discuss some of overall aspects of D&D Insider such as […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: character visualizer, D&D, D&D Insider, Dragonborn, Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons & Dragons Insider, Dungeons and Dragons

Inq. of the Week: Dungeon Crawls?

August 4, 2008 by Bartoneus

I’d begun to notice a distinct lack of D&D posts here lately, which was partially orchestrated and partially just because a lot of other news and thoughts came up here, so last week I ventured to ask who would win in a super big monster brawl.  It looks like we have a tie!!! The one […]

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, Board, Card, and Miniature Games, D&D, dungeon crawl, Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons, roleplaying, Roleplaying Games, tabletop RPG

Inq. of the Week: Monster Brawl

July 28, 2008 by Bartoneus

The Dark Knight dominated its second weekend, but who is surprised by that with competition like the way late X-Files movie sequel and Will Ferrell’s latest movie Step Brothers?  It raked in $75 million on its second weekend, which is very impressive and left the second place movie way behind at $30 million.  Last week […]

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Tagged With: D&D, Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons, Inquisition of the Week, monster brawl, monsters

D&D 4E: First Major Round of Errata

July 17, 2008 by Bartoneus

Wizards has posted errata and updates to the 4th Edition D&D core rulebooks, and there are quite a bit of changes / fixes.  Head over to the Wizard’s site and check out the text pdf’s, I’ve printed them out and am wondering how exactly I am going to efficiently going to use them. Some highlights […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, 4th Edition, D&D, Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons

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

Gaming in Ancient Rome

June 13, 2008 by Bartoneus

A friend sent me a link for something really interesting, it’s an auction by Christie’s for a d20 from Ancient Rome! It looks like the Caesars may have been playing D&D pre-1st Edition. From the site: A ROMAN GLASS GAMING DIE Circa 2nd Century A.D. Deep blue-green in color, the large twenty-sided die incised with […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, Featured, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: ancient, artifact, D&D, d20, Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons, roman, rome

D&D XP Dungeon Delve Characters

February 28, 2008 by Bartoneus

This afternoon Dave and I got to play in the 4th Edition Dungeon Delve, which is a group of about 10 tables set up with various dungeons pre-set that the RPGA staff (and some occasional Wizards employees) were kind enough to run. It was meant to be just hack & slash, get through the monsters […]

Filed Under: News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, character sheets, D&D, Dungeons & Dragons

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