A Finger-Licking Good Bucket of Links

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 Greywulf’s Lair invites you to Tell Wizards What You Think!
• DnD Corner starts of a series updating a classic D&D module in Re-Introducing The Keep on the Borderlands
• Geek Related has more worrying news with WotC On The Fansite-Closing Warpath
• Points of Light has a Forgotten Portal Playtest & Review
• For the collector, Icosahedrophilia has the definitive WotC Dungeon Tiles Index
• Living Dice has word of D&D Insider Character Creator PC Converter–Your Character as a Web Page!
• Dungeon Master (probably the most frequently featured site in the bucket history) has The Secret Lives of Closet Gamers and 10 Crazy Ways to Kick Off Your Next Campaign plus Where Has All the Mean Stuff Gone?
• Steve Jackson’s Games annual report to the Stakeholders is up and Bat in the Attic was first with the news.
• The Bone Scroll gets psychological with Using Myer-Briggs to Describe NPCs
• What Gaming Software do you use is asked by At Will
• Purple Pawn brings word of a how to get rich PDF from the founder of Mongoose Money
• Things get icky with Deadly Maladies from RPG Dumping Ground. Plum Plague sound particularly nasty
• I Hate Resistances is the unambiguous statement from The Keep on the Gaming Lands. Chad Perrin (SOB) has a response with How do you feel about energy resistance?
• Uncle Bear dabbles with time by using the 1996 Dr Who Game with Savage Worlds
• Traveller fans fans of charts will enjoy Jeff’s Gameblog’s More Fun With Charts
• In these tough ecognomic times, RPG Blog II has 5 RPGs For Under $5 and The Free RPG Blog has a review of the interesting sounding Significantly Advanced RPG