Magic – The first thing I’d change in D&D
This post is in response to a long standing request from wickedmurph that instead of just declaring what I don’t like about the track WotC took with 4E D&D, I focus on expending energy taking a crack at fixing[...]Read on >>
D&D Essentials has failed
OK. I’ve got my urge to rant and troll out of my system with the title, so now I can carry on with the post in a calm, collected manner. My encounters, over the years, with Dark Sun have been … Continue readi[...]Read on >>
Castle Ravenloft Goodies
WotC will be releasing the Castle Ravenloft board game later this month, but today we got a couple of goodies in the form of extra bonus adventures and a designer's commentary. Wow talk about support! The game isn't even[...]Read on >>
Dungeon Master Tips in 140 characters or so #15
Question #1: Do you have any tips to help players get familiar with game rules. WyattSalazar: Play a single encounter using a pregen against a few random weak critters with your GM. Learn through experience. adamdray: [...]Read on >>
Gen Con Haul, quick and dirty reviews, Part 1
Here are some of the things I got at Gen Con this year. Ok, that is a small lie. I actually didn't buy anything this year, but instead bought some on PDF before the Con and others afterwards. First up Pathfinder, t[...]Read on >>
News in Review for July 26 to Aug 1 2010
With GenCon 2010 looming on the horizon, this week’s news has understandably been very convention oriented, from both Wizards of the Coast staff and D&D 4E Bloggers alike. If you’re planning on attending the “B[...]Read on >>
OSR News From The Underdark Gazette – Saturday, July 31, 2010
Michael Curtis Has Unearthed Some Old TSR Treasures For Us! Yesterday, Michael Curtis of The Society of Torch, Pole and Rope, blogged about the disappearance of the Old Edition Downloads section [...]Read on >>
Build an Essentials Rogue, today!
The preview of the final build from the D&D Essentials line is up, and I’m geekgasming that this is (drumroll please……) The Thief. Yes folks, the Thief is back. For too long have the lightly armoured sneaky typ[...]Read on >>
Elminster and the Cheap DM – Putting Together a Forgotten Realms Campaign with Online Resources
Allright. So, we’ve done R. E. Howard’s Hyboria, with a follow-up, no less, Middle-Earth and Greyhawk! There are enough free resources available online, to enable a DM to run those worlds, without resorting to Ebay, [...]Read on >>
News in Review for Jun 28 to Jul 4 2010
There’s some great excerpts and articles this week, particularly from the upcoming Demonomicon release later this month. Of course, Dark Sun anticipation is still making the rounds on news and blog sites. And if [...]Read on >>
iPad Review (part 3) – RPGs on the iPad
Finally, part 3 of my iPad review which will focus on RPG-specific uses of the iPad! In this, the third and final installment, I’m going to cover some of the ways I’ve used the iPad and my impressions on how [...]Read on >>
Dungeon Master Tips in 140 Characters or so #11
June 28, 2010 from This is my game
Filed under: 4th edition, Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition, RPG Hub, dungeons & dragons
That’s right it’s time for another round of dungeon master tips and answers given by all the great people in the D&D twitter community. Question #1: Give me one good tip for first time Dungeon Masters, wh[...] Filed under: 4th edition, Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition, RPG Hub, dungeons & dragons
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News in Review for June 7 to June 13 2010
It seems that every week there’s some new theme or trend in the D&D 4E News and Reviews going on. Whereas last week was definitely a Dark Sun trend in the 4E News, this week would definitely point to a Monster Ma[...]Read on >>
Searching for Athas: Dark Sun Resources on the Web
With all the discussion of Dark Sun this past week, I could not help but want to do some delving of my own into the world of Athas. So I ended up kicking around the web, looking for Dark Sun resources that might have g[...]Read on >>
News in Review for May 31 to June 6 2010
If there is a trend or theme in the D&D 4E News this week it has got to be Dark Sun, Dark Sun, and MORE DARK SUN!!! Without a doubt, Wizards of the Coast seems to be in the grips of Dark Sun “mania” – not [...]Read on >>
Gaming Industry Terrorist Watch
A quick roundup of what the usual malefactors are up to. First as usual is Wizards of the Coast. They’ve sent a cease and desist letter to Masterplan, a tool being developed for D&D 4e adventure/campaign plan[...]Read on >>
Review: Monster Slayers – The Heroes of Hesiod
Today I’m reviewing a game that I’ve had on my “to do” list for more than a month but held off reviewing until I had a chance to play it with my son. Monster Slayers – The Heroes of Hesiod ([...]Read on >>
News in Review for May 17 to May 23 2010
It’s been quite the week for Neuroglyph Games!. Obviously, the big news from around here this week is the release of “The Perilous Secrets of Wilford Manor”, the first adventure in the Doombringer Saga Campaign Arc[...]Read on >>
Check out these debonaire fellows.
Remember these guys? Back in the 80's Marvel Comics decided that Spider-Man, Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor and Captain America needed a makeover. In the world of comics there's an old editorial maxim that "every c[...]Read on >>
Season 2 Episode 9 – And the Rumors Have It!
Welcome to Season 2 Episode 9 of RPG Circus Episode Topics Using Rumors in Your Game Running Mini-Campaigns Using a Book as your Game Setting Show Links Ennine Awards Peter Schaeffer's WotC Blog Announcement Andy Col[...]Read on >>
News in Review for May 3 to May 9 2010
There was a lot of D&D 4E news this week, with plenty of new Dragon Magazine articles for this new issue, and the release of excerpts from the upcoming Dragon Annual. Bart Carroll offered some great tidbits in his [...]Read on >>
so, hey. 3.5.
Dane, one of the awesome players in my Wednesday night game has threatened to run some Dungeon Crawl Classis-fueld D&D 3.5 this summer. I got rid of pretty much all my WotC-type D&D stuff awhile back, keepi[...]Read on >>
Monster Slayers and Fantastic Adventures
Wizards of the Coast released a “D&D 4 Kids” game last week. It’s similar in concept to what I did with Fantastic Adventures Basic Edition, though the adventure reads more like the training arena sc[...]Read on >>
Giving Monster Slayers a test drive
In case you haven’t heard of it, Monster Slayers: The Heroes of Hesiod is a mini-game and adventure released by WotC that uses a greatly simplified version of the 4th edition D&D rules. As such, it’s spec[...]Read on >>
How the iPad Changes D&D
If I had to guess, I'd guess that you either already love the iPad or already hate it, and another 2000 words won't change that. If you hate it, you might want to move on. I don't think this article will make you any ha[...]Read on >>
Review of Kobold Quarterly #13 Spring 2010
“In the spring, a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.” ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson Kobold Quarterly #13 is out, and I was lucky enough to be sent a review copy by Kobold Minion #1. And I [...]Read on >>
News in Review for Apr 12 to Apr 18 2010
It was a bit of a slow news week for D&D 4E related stories. There were a few choice pieces, however, such as the release of the new podcast “The Dungeon Master Guys” or the pre-release review of upcoming The P[...]Read on >>
RPG Circus Season 2 Episode 7 – Lawful Good or Lawful Stupid?
Welcome to Season 2 Episode 7 of RPG Circus This week, we have a special guest host, Jeff from Jeff's Gameblog. Episode Topics We discuss the use of Alignments How to make modules your own What Gaming Supplements influe[...]Read on >>
Review of The Indomitable Fire Forest of Innenotdar by EN Publishing
“The devil is in the details.” ~ Anonymous Campaign arcs seem to be fairly popular with D&D 4E gamers, and publishers are beginning to produce material to meet that popularity. Having a series of adventures wit[...]Read on >>
Gearing up for PAX East
“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli Dice… check. Paper and pencils… check. Laptop… check. So yes, PAX East is almost upon us, coming up on March 26-28, and I’ve been al[...]Read on >>
News in Review for March 1 to March 7 2010
It’s been a week of podcasts and updates, with not one but two new Chris Perkins vs. Robot Chicken D&D Sessions and the whopping eighty-eight page March Update from WotC! That update was huge and had tons of ru[...]Read on >>
March is “In Like A Lion…” with a Bunch of Errata!
Alright, so you might know the old saying about March – “In Like a Lion, Out like a Lamb” – which everyone interprets as meaning that the month starts out stormy and roaring, then fades into April, all gentle-lik[...]Read on >>
Battlemat heaven
I’ve finally found a solution to battlemat woes. For years now I’ve been to-ing and fro-ing with flipmats, tiles, drywipe mats, all sorts. all in a futile attempt to get a fair representation of the WotC ma[...]Read on >>
More thoughts on DEVICES.
This has RPG and tech components, so I’m putting it in both. Most of it has to do with e-readers and the iPad at large. I also talk about how gaming might be able to take advantage of the iPad. PDFs I can’t h[...]Read on >>
News in Review for Jan 25 to Jan 31 2010
This has been one amazing week for Neuroglyph Games. The big news, of course, comes with the first release of a Neuroglyph Games product! A Curse at the Old Inn was released last Thursday as a FREE adventure module, and[...]Read on >>
Good News and Bad News
I’ll give you the bad news first: according to Greg Yahn, Wizards of the Coast Director of Marketing, WotC is not going to renew their Star Wars licence, and the Star Wars Miniatures and Star Wars Saga lines will b[...]Read on >>
Review – The Mark of Hubris by Alea Publishing
“The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony…” ~ Ralph Ellison Hubris is one of those words you don’t hear a lot in common speech these days, unless you listen to the nightly news that is. It seems t[...]Read on >>
Five Things I Would Like WotC to Do With D&D in 2011
With all of the 2010 predictions going on, I thought it might be fun to look at the five things I'd like to see WotC do with Dungeons & Dragons in 2011. Why 2011 instead of 2010? It's very likely the WotC production [...]Read on >>
News in Review for Jan 18 to Jan 24 2010
Another great in D&D 4e week news! There’s been some great articles for both Dragon Magazine and Dungeon from Wizards of the Coast, including a new Chaos Scar Adventure, and new class content for Bards and Inv[...]Read on >>
4e DDI and fluff
I had a thought today thinking about the Dragonborn book (see my review, btw), in that that book serves as a perfect companion to a DDI subscription. If you have a DDI account, and you don’t get any of the books [...]Read on >>
Review – The Plane Below: Secrets of Elemental Chaos by Wizards of the Coast
“Money is a terrible master, but an excellent servant.” ~ P.T. Barnum I felt pretty fortunate this past Christmas, since I got a lot of things I asked “Santa” for. In addition to getting a copy of Dragon Age: O[...]Read on >>
News in Review for Jan 4 to Jan 10 2010
In Monday’s release of Class Acts: Ranger for Dragon #383, check out 19 new exploits to make the bow ranger an even more deadly striker. WotC Chris Youngs offers some role-playing insights in his Dragon Magazine e[...]Read on >>
Adventure Design 2.0
For quite some time now I’ve found the format in which adventure design is presented to be outdated. Sure the Delve format had a large impact in the last few years since its debut in some of Wizards of the Coast&[...]Read on >>
Where is the Future of Role-Playing Games?–I expected it Last Year
RPGs in their current form date from the early 1970s and there is very little difference between a 2010 game and a 1976 game. Oh, the rules are more complex, statistically balanced and slickly produced, but the underlyin[...]Read on >>
Top 10 RPG News Items From 2009
2009 was a maturing year for RPGs. Traditional pen-and-paper roleplaying games are a tough sell for the consumer’s entertainment dollar. Still, it’s clear that tabletop RPGs live on, as companies continue to[...]Read on >>
Best & Worst of Gaming 2009 [Part 2]
In Part 2 of this series I have a look at public relations and RPG websites. If you’ve missed Part 1, you can check it out here. Best Public Relations Another tough pick, but in the end I settled for Paizo Publishing [...]Read on >>
Chatty’s Year 2009 and the Importance of the Tribe
Yes, Yet another Year End Post. I’m sure the RPGbloggers network’s first page must crumble under that Echo Chamber effect. But I don’t quite care about that. The Year in Review Oh man what a year.[...]Read on >>
Review: Blackdirge’s Bargain Templates – Trollborn by Blackdirge Publishing
“It is half man, half bear, and half pig.” ~ Al Gore (South Park, 2006) Just to clear up any confusion right from the beginning, my reference to ManBearPig is about the product – not the Author. I’ve seen M[...]Read on >>
The Best & Worst of Gaming 2009, Part II
December 15, 2009 from RPG Blog II
Filed under: Advice/Tools, Other Systems, Palladium, RPG Hub, Reviews, news
We continue today with our rundown of the best and worst of the RPG hobby in 2009.Best Public RelationsGold: Any Publisher Who Participated in Free RPG Day. What a great event this is! While there's always room for im[...] Filed under: Advice/Tools, Other Systems, Palladium, RPG Hub, Reviews, news
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RPG Circus Season 1 Episode 13 – The Best and Worst Dressed 2009
Welcome to Season 1 Episode 13 of RPG Circus Episode Topics Best and Worst of RPGs in 2009 Show Links Rumor Of WotC Layoff Dragon Age Box Set PDF out Game Science Q Workshop Pinnacle Entertainment Group Gaming Paper[...]Read on >>
