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Inn Fighting and Three Dragon Ante

July 9, 2009

These are two games put out by WOTC. Three Dragon Ante is a card game and Inn Fighting is a card/dice game. They are both supposed to have the advantage of extensible rules that allow playing them in character during a Dungeons and Dragons game. I’ve had Three Dragon Ante for awhile now and as [...]

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Talkin ‘Bout Nobis!

July 1, 2009

I just posted an interview with the team behind Nobis over on Planewalker.com. I really like their debut product a lot and I am also thrilled to see a company doing new and quality work in the v. 3.5 rules. Their approach to firearms is now being adopted outright as our baseline rule for the [...]

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Happy 5th Anniversary Yottaquest!

June 11, 2009

Last week I hitched a ride over to one of the local game stores, Yottaquest, in order to check it out. A solid variety of card and board games was complemented by something I don’t often see outside of Amazon: an extensive range of RPGs including editions of DND from across the spectrum. One long [...]

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John McCain Just Rolled A Crit! A Natural One, That Is…

August 19, 2008

Via Kevin Poulsen on Wired’s Threat Level: Confronting questions about whether John McCain stole an inspiring POW story from the autobiography of a former Soviet prisoner, a campaign spokesman threw out this melee attack against a much-maligned geek pastime: “It may be typical of the pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd to disparage a fellow countryman’s [...]

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Shattered Fractine Down

August 4, 2008

Imagine my horror when I discovered today that The Shattered Fractine is down, and with a domain expired notice yet. An amazing site with a nicely hypertexted collection of Spelljammer monsters converted to 3.x. I used it constantly, and links to it appear in my House Rules and Setting pages. Inquiring of other members on [...]

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The History of Regdar

July 8, 2008

A rumination on race and gender in iconic Dungeons and Dragons art where Monte Cook tells of the insurrection against the marketing people and the sudden appearance of yet another white, male, human fighter. Check it out, its great reading from one of the True Pros of the industry.

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Beyond the Moons: Back Online

June 23, 2008

That’s really all I had to say…

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Beyond The Moons Down

June 19, 2008

The Official Spelljammer Website: Beyond The Moons is temporarily down. From what I gather it will be down for between 48 hours and two weeks (admins are on vacation). The entire site is backed up and the Seekers High Council is aware of the situation. We’ll be back, stay tuned!

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Dice Jockeys

May 25, 2008

Now this is something wonderful. A new series of locally produced video shorts featuring two old partners in crime of mine: Wild Bill Dykes, who suffered the Blues with me many late nights; and Lewis D’Aubin aka Dr. Milo Thaddeus Pinkerton III the founder an leader of the Consortium of Genius. The topic is gaming. [...]

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Paizo Scores a Crit!

May 12, 2008

While I am still skeptical of how compatible with 3.5 Pathfinder will be I do know that I am certainly on Paizo’s side in the bold steps they have taken in response to the way WOTC has been handling Fourth Edition. Today the former publishers of Dragon Magazine and Dungeon Magazine rolled a natural twenty! [...]

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