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5TDM: 5th Edition Team Deathmatch

November 29, 2018 by Bartoneus

Back on Sunday, November 18th we participated in a streamed match of 5th Edition Team Deathmatch, our team was up against the excellent team from Cheaper by the Dungeon and it was an incredibly fun evening of killing, joking, and telefragging (oh…so much telefragging.)

Filed Under: Actual Play, Featured, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 5e, 5tdm, 5th edition, 5th edition team deathmatch, D&D, dnd, Dungeons and Dragons, Kickstarter, pvp, roleplaying games

Rodney Thompson on “Dusk City Outlaws” RPG

February 13, 2017 by Dave

Dusk City Outlaws environment

Assemble your crew and case the joint by checking out this interview with “Dusk City Outlaws” creator Rodney Thompson.

Filed Under: Featured, Interviews, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: capers, dusk city outlaws, heists, Kickstarter

Preview: “World Wide Wrestling”

September 11, 2014 by Vanir

In short: I strongly encourage you to check this game out, and throw money at it until it arrives at your house and does a flying elbow through your door.

Filed Under: Dire Flailings, Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: indie, Kickstarter, world wide wrestling, wrestling, wwe

Stealing From Games (And A Game About Stealing)

June 3, 2014 by Dave

Heat

I see this a lot among game designers of all kinds, both new and experienced: “I really want to use [game mechanism X] but I worry it’ll be too much like [popular game].” I am here to set you free and tell you not to worry about that.

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Critical Threats, Featured, Game Hacks & Content, Newest Critical Hits Tagged With: drafting, game design, heat, Kickstarter, lords of waterdeep, love letter, magic the gathering, scoundrels of skullport

Interview: Bill “Dungeon Bastard” Cavalier on “The World’s Worst Dungeon Crawl”

May 15, 2013 by Dave

Here at Critical Hits, we’ve been following the advice of Bill Cavalier, Adventure Coach AKA “The Dungeon Bastard” for some time now. At first it was because we mistook him for someone else entirely, but we grew to value his advice on WINNING Dungeons & Dragons after years of treating it as a collaborative activity […]

Filed Under: Featured, Humor, Interviews, Newest Critical Hits, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: dungeon bastard, Dungeons and Dragons, gen con, gen con 2013, Kickstarter, lawful badass, TPK, world's worst dungeon crawl

The Cortex Plus Hacker’s Guide: The Old School Job

February 1, 2013 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty describes his Cortex Plus hacks included in the Cortex Plus Hacker’s Guide and points to where you can get a preview copy of the first part!

Filed Under: Game Hacks & Content, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Cortex Plus, Cortex Plus Action, D&D, Kickstarter, leverage, the old school job

Review: “Last Stand” RPG

January 18, 2013 by Wyatt Salazar

Fünhaver Games’s Last Stand is an RPG that seemingly draws from an eclectic range of sources such as Earth Defense Force, Starship Troopers and Kaiju movies to make hectic and fun game with a unique dice mechanic.

Filed Under: Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Kickstarter, last stand

My Year in Gaming Kickstarters

December 31, 2012 by Dave

As 2012 wraps up, I wanted to take a look at the Kickstarters I supported this year, and ultimately focusing on the games, particularly the RPGs, my most-supported category.

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Comics, Critical Threats, Editorial, Featured, Movies, Music, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, Video Games Tagged With: Kickstarter

Interview: Tracy Barnett, Designer of School Daze and One Shot

November 2, 2012 by Bartoneus

Tracy Barnett is a good friend of ours that has waged a one-man war on his own spare time. With his second KickStarter game, One Shot, ending in just over two days I offered to chat with him a bit about his projects and his thoughts on designing open to the public as he has made a habit of doing. You can also read more of Tracy’s thoughts on that subject in posts he wrote for us earlier this year, Game Design and Openness and Designing in Public.

Filed Under: Featured, Interviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: game design, Interviews, Kickstarter, one-shot, roleplaying games, sand and steam productions, school daze

More Than Openness: Designing in Public

February 24, 2012 by guest

One of the distinctions that I missed in my last article is that openness doesn’t necessarily have to be inviting. It just leave the door open. Doing something in public combines openness with a call to the public to look at what you’re doing.

Filed Under: Editorial, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: designing in public, game design, Kickstarter, school daze

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