Tag Archives: 4e

Dungeons & Dragons Online for Free

Dungeons & Dragons Online, the D&D MMO, has just announced a free version called Eberron Unlimited. It claims to be entirely free and I guess it will support itself by people paying to upgrade to the full Dungeons & Dragons Online or by spending real money to upgrade their character in the in-game store. I [...]

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D&D Gametable Still Under Development?

The 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 [...]

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New Bucket, Same as the Old Bucket

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 [...]

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Picks of the day

Bite sized blogging from the 6d6 Fireball Twitter feed. Tuesday – Fun Character Ideas That You May Not Have Tried Wednesday – The D&D 1st edition book of books Thursday – Serious megadungeon map Friday – Ok That Tears It, 4E and I are Done! Saturday – D&D Magazines and Fanzines Sunday – Proof that [...]

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What if 4e was Free?

So you are the Head of D&D at Wizards. Fourth edition has not been the massive success that was hoped for with many fans sticking to 3.5 or worse, going to 4e and switching back. D&D Insider was a year late and is still missing major features. Your business model is based on selling lots [...]

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Strap Yourself into the Bucket Seats and Hang On

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 [...]

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The People's Bucket

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 [...]

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Bucket of Death!

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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5 Gallon Bucket

The biggest round up of the best blogging this week and it has a lot of good & bad news for Wizards of the Coast. Questing GM has the latest PDFs and class news in the Word of Wizards. Meanwhile Critical Hits have Exclusive Preview: “Real Ultimate Power” Sourcebook Rituals came in for a big [...]

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