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A D&D Birthday party
My birthday was a few days ago, but my job took me out of the country and I couldn’t celebrate with my family. So Mrs. NewbieDM asked me what I’d like for my birthday when I got back, and I asked for a D&D marathon with the group. We played yesterday from 12 to 8pm, […]
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Arcane Power Errata (!)
So Arcane Power came out today, and the errata team has already issued its first batch. Nice. Get it here
1d12 questions with….Mike Mearls
I’m rolling out an interview section to the website titled “1d12 questions with…” where I’ll roll a d12 and ask that number of questions to the subject of the interview, who today happens to be the very gracious & approachable Mike Mearls, lead designer at Wizards of the Coast. It’s meant to be a reflection on […]
On game balance…
I tend to frequent gaming forums, mostly to find new things to use in my games, like monster cards, software, maps, and the like. One of the themes that often pops up is that of game balance. “Such-n-such class is broken” “X Power is unbalanced” type arguments seem to be the norm amongst those types […]
About the RPG Bloggers Campaign Setting
And we’re off…. 32 bloggers working on a shared campaign setting. This should be cool. The map is ready, the land grab has begun, and in a few months a living, breathing campaign world will be available from some of the best minds in the RPG Blogosphere. Although I brought up the concept, I am […]
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ENWorld interviews Greg Leeds, President of WOTC, regarding the PDF’s.
Find it here I won’t editorialize about it.
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Vin Diesel’s Melkor the Drow
Here’s Vin hitting the talk show circuit, promoting Fast & Furious, and shares with Jimmy Kimmel the story of Melkor the Drow. Enjoy this little bit of geekness on late night tv. The D&D stuff hits at 2:27.
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Masterplan – Software for the 4th Ed. DM
I recently came across a nice piece of software for DM’s of 4th Ed. who need a little bit of help organizing and keeping their campaign stuff in order. The program includes flowcharts for your adventures that link to encounters, maps, and all sorts of stuff. You can even use Dungeon Tiles to plan and […]
If you ran a publishing company…
Before this comes accross as a WOTC defense, it isn’t. This is a genuine “What would I do?” moment. I believe WOTC kneejerked yesterday, and is facing the mob today… Regardless, on with the point of my post… Let me set up a hypothetical scenario here. Assume you are a publisher, you publish books. It doesn’t […]
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WOTC halts sales of D&D PDF’s
From RPGNOW’s website: Wizards of the Coast has instructed us to suspend all sales and downloads of Wizards of the Coast titles. Unfortunately, this includes offering download access to previously purchased Wizards of the Coast titles. We are in discussions with Wizards about their decision to change their approach to digital sales of their titles […]
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April 27, 2009
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