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Shades of Grey: From RPGs to Board Games
The recent announcement of Fortune Cards for D&D has caused a flurry of excitement and anger. As the designer of a card based RPG this issue resonates with me and highlights a growing trend in games design. The old designation of board game, card game and RPG no longer apply. In Days of Yore Once, [...]
D&D Player’s Strategy Guide: A More Thoughtful Look
Yesterday, I posted a reactionary piece called D&D Player’s Strategy Guide: How Much Will It Suck? which garnered some thoughtful comments. Often more thoughtful than the original article so I felt it appropriate to give the subject a second, more considered look. Bad Title The title of my article was unfair because I not basing [...]
Fantasy Armour
Like fantasy weapons in D&D, I believe armour defines the warrior. Conan in plate never really works for me nor do knights or paladins in studded leather. Or is this really true? Campaigns do not really have many boundaries and fantasy armour or the lack of it is another way of stamping a character on [...]
4E Pre-Release Rules Compilation
The Enworld community has put together some Dungeons and Dragons 4e prerelease rules. These are compiled from various bits already released by WotC so they are sketchy and may be misleading. However they give a good insight into what 4th Edition will be like.
1st Hand Account of D&D 4e Game
On the Enworld forum there is a post by a longtime 3.5 player having a first game of 4e. Its a good write-up and the discussion that follows is informed and informative. It doesn’t really settle my doubts over the 4e and raises new ones (why are a first level party fighting a dragon?) but [...]
More News on the 4e License
There has been a lot of fuss over the last week or two over the suggestion that in order to produce material under the 4e license (known as the 4E GSL), publishers would have to drop all their 3.5 edition material. This all started following some comments made by senior WotC staff on a message [...]
D&D Insider Review (and some other stuff)
Gamespy have a review, well more of preview regurgitating WotC PR rather than a hands-on “does this thing work” review of D&D Insider. It only has scarce details but their conclusion: However, we have one major concern: price. Virtual monster miniature pricing hasn’t been set, but an Insider subscription (that is, Dungeon and Dragon magazines, [...]
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Tripod: Geeky, Gamer Comedy
Spotted this on Play This Thing, Tripod are a musical comedy trio sing songs about playing on the X-box, comic shops and the gamer life-style. Just one look at their web-site tells you they are huge Dungeons and Dragons fans. They also have a song called Dungeons & Dragons. There is a whole bunch of [...]
