RSS FeedAs 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Same old Bucket of Links, same old list of the best of this weeks RPG blogging.
Critical Hits sets about blowing up the Rule of Cool with the Rule of C4
Spells We Never Use, Or… Picking on Nystul’s Magical Aura by The Dwarf and the Basilisk.
Where are you? is the question from The Core Mechanic who [...]
Mongoose publications, holders of the Traveller (T5) licence and many others have release the State of the Mongoose 2008. Very interesting reading, particular their decision to mothball miniature production, and a great piece of communications by the company.
One area interests me in particular, especially in light of our recent Spaceships & Swords poll on favourite [...]
In D&D, every character starts at the same age. Not the same chronological ages obviously but the same mental / developmental age. Whether dwarf, elf, half-orc or human, all characters start out as the equivalent of an 18 year old human school leaver about to start their first job. In short, everyone is created equal.
But [...]
The Best of this weeks RPG Bloggers Network
Not since the dark days of the 1980’s has there been so much interest in post-apocalypse gaming. Enworld carries news of the new version of Twilight 2000, imaginatively called Twilight 2013.
More publishing news from Enworld, an announcement of RPG Objects/ Amazon’s BookSurge print-on-demand deal. Meanwhile Geek Related reveals [...]
The best of this week’s RPG blogs.
“YOU F***ING IDIOT! HAVE YOU BOTHERED TO READ THE D.M. F***ING G.?” – RPG Centric takes a look at the the much need skill of Conflict Resolution.
A Friesian Minotaur from Bone Scroll
A useful guide to copyright and licences for games a the Free RPG Blog: Licenses and free [...]
Great news for fans of the SF RPG game Traveller. Mongoose Publishing, creators of the 5th Edition (T5) version of Traveller, are providing a open licence for the game. Fans can now create and publish their own material using the official logo under the Open Content License. The Developer’s Pack can be downloaded from [...]
To support Free RPG Day (June 21st), Mongoose publishing have release Traveller Book 0: An Introduction to Traveller.
For those of you not familiar with the SF game Traveller, have look at this article on the long history of Traveller or the mass of material available in our online RPG store.
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