A Bucket, A Bucket, My Kingdom for a Bucket

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 Use The 4th Edition Rules If They Were NOT The Dungeons and Dragons System? is the astute question from Living Dice
• More bad publicity for WotC. Are WotC Reusing Miniatures Sculpts? asks Outsyder Gaming
• Word of Wizards is a round-up of new excerpts from WotC by Questing GM.
• Dungeon Mastering riffs on Why the tavern is the best place to start a campaign
• Something we have discussed on 6d6 Fireball but Wild Die has his say on Players who cheat
• Greyhawk Grognard writes In Praise of Polearms
• Standing out from the crowd is DND Corner on Character Ticks – Making A Character Memorable
• The extra-ordinary Exchange of Realities comments on Bringing the Ordinary Into a Storyline and covers a topic close to my heart in What the United States Census Taught Me About Party Dynamics
• Gaming Brouhaha is a man of a certain age and wonders Is this what a geek’s midlife crisis looks like?
• Greywulf has had some fun on Twitter with Werewolves versus Robots!
• Important world building advice from Campaign Mastery in Weather, Not Climate
• Good news for Chatty DM – Yay! My adventure was announced!!!
• Old school mapping excellence – The Pekulish Script by Jeff’s Gameblog
• A great project from RPG Blog II – Vote For The Top 25 RPGs of All Time! – though there is no point because everyone knows that Aftermath! is the great system ever!
• Important information for any player from Nameless Kingdom, How to: Calculate Probability With Multiple Dice
• Chgowiz’s Old Guy RPG makes a great point with We don’t need no stinkin’ rules or mechanics!
• Are you feeling lucky punk? Then enter A Butterfly Dreaming’s Contest to Win an Open Game Table Anthology where as The Dwarf and the Basilisk has some Open Game Table Musings
• 10 reasons to play games at the table from Mad Brew Labs
• Are You Playing Too Fast? is the question posed by Capturing Fantasy
• Bard of the Valiant has news of Open D6 – Customizable Rulebooks
• A new blog (well new to me) Robot Viking is interested in The Return of Dark Sun?
• Game Cryer has a good analysis of Dungeon A Day.com but RetroRoleplaying has news that Megadungeon.net Available
• Dungeon construction: ordnance gets Fame & Fortune excited.
• Tenletter are redesigning a character class – Awesome begins with ‘M’ and ends in ‘onk’
• And a suitable end note. Pen and Portal has a newish player talking about the The Fear of Death in D&D