RSS FeedThe latest D&D News email arrived today with news of forth coming releases (none of which was new except possibly the “Draconomicon (Nov 09) focuses on Metallic Dragons”. One interesting nugget was the email’s finishing paragraph:
… and coming soon, the ground-breaking new digital services such as the character visualizer, D&D Gametable and Dungeon Builder [...]
Monte Cook, co-writer of 3rd edition D&D, and long time writer of many RPG systems has announced his new venture.
Next week I’m going to be launching Dungeonaday.com, a subscription-based website that will offer new game content every weekday. Basically, what I’ll be doing is building an ongoing dungeon-based campaign of a decidedly old-school tradition, but [...]
This week’s bucket of the best RPG links around.
Dungeon Mastering is concerned with Size Matters: How to Manage a Big Gaming Group
Critical Hits tackles the big issues in Dungeons & Dragons & Racism
At Will lets fly in An Open Letter to Wizards
Whereas Exchange of Realities tell us The Importance of Giving Back to the GM
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It’s Friday and I have a bucket overflowing with top gaming links.
Exchange of Realities has advice on Nine Ways to Hide the Truth and Get Away With It though I could be lying.
I’ve never heard of this game but I love the idea of a Hot Chicks GM’s Screen from Purple Pawn.
Pen and Paper portal [...]
The results for last week’s poll shows that we are a pretty online and sociable bunch.
Facebook was the clear winner amongst the social networks (I’m Chris Tregenza on Facebook) with 66% of you using it. Twitter is a long way behind with 33% (Tregenza on Twitter). MySpace and a generic Other option both [...]
News of layoffs at Wizards of the Coast are all over the net but no has noticed how many online related staff have gone.
Amongst those going are the VP of digital gaming, a director of digital games and the online community manager. I suspect that a lot of grunt staff on the D&D Insider and [...]
A round-up of the best RPG writing this week.
The D&D Insider Character Builder was opened up for beta testing this week. If like me you don’t have a D&D Insider account, you can see what you missing with this video of the Character Builder (thanks to Questing GM)
Common sense in RPGs is the issue in [...]
As predicted by Critical Hits, D&D Insider starts charging from today. A 12 month subscription will cost $4.95 a month, a single month subscription is $7.95. Some content will remain free but the big news is that there is no news. No new feature has been launched to mark the introduction of paid-only access. The [...]
If you are eating at a chinese restaurant, don’t order the curry.
Why? Just because someone is a specialist in one type of food it doesn’t mean they can cook any other type of food with equal success. Chinese cooks have spent years learning all about the culture and style of their national dishes allowing [...]
The new 4th Edition Game System License ( 4E GSL ) will be released next week according to this WotC announcement.
D&D Insider, the online subscription based service for 4e has gone live, or at least its web site has. Features on offer include the D&D Character Visualizer and Character Builder for creating characters; D&D [...]
