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Unpacking the new Star Wars Beginner’s Role Playing Game box
I received the new Star Wars Edge of the Empire Beginner’s game in the mail yesterday, and thought I’d share with you the contents of the box. I can’t speak yet to the actual playing experience, that won’t happen for another week or so, but I can comment on the contents of the game. It’s worth noting that I […]
2nd Edition D&D Coming Back, Old Modules Coming Back… What’s Next?
It seems that Wizards of the Coast is on a reprint kick. Of course, it’s easy to figure out why. 4th Ed. is on its way out, and at this point that’s more reality than speculation. Books haven’t been announced, and yeah, Dungeon/Dragon content is still being released, but…. obviously 5th Ed. is king right […]
Starfighter combat in SW/AGE
One of the things that has to be made up from scratch in my Star Wars/AGE hack is starship combat, which is iconic to SW, yet in AGE there are no vehicular combat rules of any kind. I decided that the easiest way for me to approach that, and in keeping with the spirit of […]
Star Wars/AGE conversion update
Some time ago I mentioned that I was slowly working on a Dragon Age/Star Wars hack, but I never really posted much more than that. Since then I’ve received a couple of emails from people interested in the project, so I decided to recharge my batteries and get to it. Over time, I’ve gotten some […]
To Grid Or Not To Grid, That Is The Question… And Another Topic…
There’s been some talk lately about the infamous “GRID” in rpg’s. It’s come up in conversations about DnDNext, and whether or not people prefer to play with it or would rather go the “theatre of the mind route”. I also heard Will Wheaton on the latest Jennisodes podcast refer to 4e as basically a “board […]
NewbieDM Review: Neverwinter Campaign Setting
I’ll start this review by telling you that I’ve never been a huge Forgotten Realms guy, although I love the older Forgotten Realms products. I’ve owned the boxed sets, source books and a few novels from the 2e era of the Realms. I even own the 3e forgotten Realms book, even though I played very […]
Classics Unboxed: Planescape Campaign Setting
It’s hard not to think about the numerous campaign settings that were released for D&D when one thinks of 2nd Ed. In fact, campaign settings are likely the reason for that edition’s popularity throughout the 90′s. The era of the boxed sets brought gamers many jewels, and to many, the brightest one of all was […]
Running Dragon Age
My group and I jumped back into the fantasy genre this week, and did with a new game, no less; Green Ronin’s tabletop version of Bioware’s video game, Dragon Age. Now I can’t write this post without doing a little bit of explaining as to why we didn’t pick up and jump back into our […]
The Powers That Be
One of my biggest gripes about 4e has always been in the presentation of it, and specifically the presentation of powers. Now I’m not saying that I dislike the power system of 4e, on the contrary, I find it to be a great way to spice up the otherwise boring attack, repeat, attack treadmills of […]
Classics Unboxed: Council of Wyrms
The Council of Wyrms boxed set was released in 1994 by TSR for the 2nd Ed. AD&D game. It was written by current head of RPG’s at Wizards of the Coast, Bill Slavicsek. The setting is unique in that for the first time in AD&D it allowed for player characters to play Dragons. One could […]
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December 20, 2012 by newbiedm
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