Flavoured with our secret recipe of herbs, spices and waffle, the best of this week’s blogging in one tasty bucket.
One of several competitions around at the moment (like our own Adventure Writing Competition), the Free RPG Blog has a 24 hour RPG Competition – Win Amazon vouchers!
Another competition is from Critical Hits (and others) [...]
This week’s blogging has been dominated by two stories: WotC PDF stupidity and the sad passing of Dave Arneson. I’ve decided not to cover those two stories in the bucket and focus on a week of great blogging that you may of missed.
Is this vandalism? The Spirits of Eden wants Things That Break 4e
Would Anyone [...]
Which is to say it is full of the best RPG blogging links around.
Spotted on the RPG.net forums – The Play Testers Network for people want to develop or play test games
Xeveninti is not the first blogger to say For now, I’m done with 4e but Unnatural 20 may be the first to say 4E [...]
As we bring you this week’s bumper bucket of blogging.
4e continues to cause contention as Unnatural 20 claims Skill Challenges, Unnecessary and Problematic and Living Dice wants to Bring Back Tripping in 4th Edition! but Uncle Bear argues System Matters, Old School & 4th Edition. The Heros of Fallcrest has a different problem causing him [...]
I’ve had an email from an RPG blogger who will remain nameless asking why I never include their articles in the bucket of links. Rather than replying in person I thought I would post this to help anyone trying to get those precious links.
Have a Catchy Title
Everyday I look through the output of the RPG [...]
It’s Friday and that can only mean one thing. A bucket bursting with links.
Out to kill some sacred cows, Gaming Brouhaha declares Temple of Elemental Evil was not a good adventure
On a similar note Nuketown wants us to Beware the Megadungeon and entirely discordantly ponders the Evolving the RPG Form Factor
The Old / New School [...]
The equation is simple. Bucket = Quality RPG Bloging
Mega-Dungeons seem to be the rage this week, so Hack Slash claims I got your megadungeon right here… and RPG Dumping Ground asks Did Someone Say Mega-dungeon? Meanwhile Greywulf’s Lair declares Megadungeon WAR! and Critical Hits just talks about it with an Interview: Monte Cook about Dungeonaday.com
Building [...]
Another week of top-notch RPG blogging mined, sorted and polished for your reading pleasure.
Points of Light discuss making monsters in 3e and 4e in Game Design: PCs, NPCs, and Skills
The snappily titled KingSpoom’s RPG Design & Theory Junkyard has opinions on Combat and non-combat skills
How Traveller Changed the Way I Looked at Gaming is the [...]
It seems that every week, the bucket of links gets bigger. Are the more and more good blog posts out there or am I just becoming less picky? Anyway, here is this week’s best blogging.
Standing up for 3rd Edition, Chad Perrin: SOB says We can have more than one combat per session!
Greyhawk Grognard points out [...]
There has been some top class blogging this week with analysis, review and comment on 4e, retro-gaming, WotC and more. All of which can be found in this week’s bucket.
Top Ten D&D Monsters from The Dwarf & The Basilisk
The Core Mechanic continues it excellent coverage of Hasbro and WotC with D&D Insider: Where are we?
Meanwhile [...]