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D&DXP News: D&D Encounters

January 28, 2010 by Bartoneus

Today at D&D Experience 2010 Wizards of the Coast announced their new program titled D&D Encounters, a natural evolution of the Delve Nights concept. D&D Encounters is aimed at encouraging players to mingle and interact more with other gamers in their area and will allow players to participate in contests to win cool prizes and D&D swag.

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Retro Critical Hits

November 9, 2009 by Bartoneus

Greetings everyone, Danny (aka Bartoneus) here! You may have noticed that late last week and over the weekend Critical Hits was in “Retro” mode and now that our layout is back a lot of things are still messed up. A lot of the problems stem from a completely honest and understandable accident, but the end result is hopefully a better framework for the site. Unfortunately the last full backup we had was in May of this year, so we’ll be working through today and tomorrow to get all of the missing images back up and hopefully have everything back to normal soon!

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Monte Cook Un-Retires and Joins Pathfinder RPG team.

May 12, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Well not so much out of retirement as he’s becoming a rules consultant for the Pathfinder RPG. What was it you said about Paizo NOT being a Google-emulate? 🙂 Monte Cook Joins the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game™ Team Co-creator of 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons® to act as Rules Consultant Paizo Publishing®, LLC today announced that […]

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This Just in… Pathfinder to remain 3.5

March 18, 2008 by The Chatty DM

From the Paizo Newswire: Pathfinder™ to continue under the 3.5 rules. Tuesday, March 19th, 2008 Paizo Publishing today unveiled the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, a tabletop fantasy roleplaying game that will serve as the anchor for the company’s popular line of Pathfinder adventures, sourcebooks, and campaigns. Today marks the beginning of a year-long Open Playtest of […]

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