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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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Episode III:A Fistfull of Fumbles

June 22, 2007

14-18th of Flamerule, 1360 DR DM’s Note: This was an evening sent directly from the Abyss. No less than 13 natural ones were rolled by the four players over the course of this single, four hour game. Thirteen Critical Failures. That has to be some kind of record. The Dice Gods must be propitiated…. After [...]

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Wizards of the Coast: Taking the Dungeon and Dragon out of Dungeons and Dragons

May 26, 2007

FWIW, I think the yanking of the licenses from Piazo is merely the latest in a long line of errors of judgement by WotC. This one hurts not only Wizards but the whole of the RPG hobby, as it removes the two best known periodicals from magazine stands, and from the hands of devoted 3E [...]

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Another WOTC Tombstone

April 24, 2007

Wizards of the Coast were not happy with cancelling Dungeon and Dragon magazines. They have just killed Dragonlance too: http://www.dragonlance.com/features/articles/10040.aspx Now I always thought Dragonlance was basically crap. No offense to fans of the setting, just not my cup of tea. Even so this piles on thick and fast with the cancellation of dragon and [...]

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Dragon, Dungeon, RIP

April 20, 2007

April 19, 2007 (BELLEVUE, Wash.) – Paizo Publishing and Wizards of the Coast today announced the conclusion of Paizo’s license to produce DRAGON and DUNGEON magazines effective September 2007. Publication of DRAGON and DUNGEON will cease with issues number 359 and 150, respectively. “Today the internet is where people go to get this kind of [...]

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