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Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-11-09
The Spiel game of the show by @BoardGameNews would be right up @bartoneus's alley http://is.gd/4JxnW # Trek or Treat! Hear a bunch of us from the Star Trek family perform the radio version of War of the Worlds: http://is.gd/4JyLv (via @wilw) # ...
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-10-31
Updated Skill Challenges page with Rob Donoghue’s Siege of Fallcrest and Changing the World, along with new Ruling SCs. Questing’s Readings – RPG Bloggers Network Edition Do you own any of these awesome boardgames? Google Wave: we...
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-10-24
RT @matt_james_FR: Open Design's Adopt-a-Soldier Sponsorship – #dnd http://bit.ly/F8LJE # D&D played on a Microsoft Surface. http://vimeo.com/7132858 (via @gregbilsland) # EIC @DaveTheGame is answering questions about Draconomicon: Me...
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-10-24
RT @matt_james_FR: Open Design's Adopt-a-Soldier Sponsorship – #dnd http://bit.ly/F8LJE # D&D played on a Microsoft Surface. http://vimeo.com/7132858 (via @gregbilsland) # EIC @DaveTheGame is answering questions about Draconomicon: Me...
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-10-17
Pathfinder Bestiary PDF to be $9.99 like core rulebook (hat tip: Jim) The Rouse is leaving WotC. (via @AsmodeusLore) You Too Could… Date Keith Baker! Are you ready…for STAR WARS ZOMBIE WEEK? (via @joshgeeksix and @AronHead) Chris Perkins̵...
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-10-10
Just updated the Character Class Reference w/ Seeker (Primal Controller) Just updated the Character Race Reference w/ Vistani (from Ravenloft!) Coming Soon: The Anarchist Gamemaster Cookbook: Recipes For Games That Don’t Suck by Sinister Adv...
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-10-03
i4e iPhone app released (site http://is.gd/3HB5x , iTunes store http://is.gd/3HB7p ) # Ari Marmell takes on Skill Challenges http://bit.ly/tP3By # Using Chessboards for Skill Challenges http://bit.ly/4THp3 (via Asmor) # D&D camp, circa 1982 http...
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-09-26
Primal Power Spoilers at RPG.net Check out the Wired.com GeekDad interview about Going Cardboard! A D&D monster in the making if I’ve ever seen one, the Bearsharktopus! Design: Kory Heath (Uptown) explains how he developed Blockhouse ......
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-09-19
Looking for Playtesters for our new Licensed Fantasy RPG. (via @cubicle7) Awesome scoop over at newbiedm : There won’t be a new class in Dark Sun, but will have an entirely new mechanic Check out SpyParty, where ......
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-09-12
DMG2 and Revenge of the Giants have been released into the wild Revamped Dead Gentlemen site is up, with new videos A rough take on the One Ring as a D&D 4E artifact (via @wordwill) FIVE ......
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-09-05
Gamer Lifestyle closing its doors + The Awesomeness of Critical Hits Privateer’s new Grind game looks like BloodBowl with Warmachines. (via @brettspiel) Disney Acquires Marvel Entertainment (via CBR) Some of your questions answered (via @mfo...
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-08-29
Here is our podcast feed but we do not yet have an iTunes link. The first of the GenCon Seminars from the media track has been posted “How the Web Series The Guild Stays Successful” by WSJ ......
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-08-22
Doctor Who RPG approved By BBC and on the way to printers, on track for early November release, should be in many stores (esp in UK) Space Hulk is Back! One of the funniest moments at the ......
Critical Bits: 2009 GenCon
Press Release by the Diana Jones Award Committee explaining why they nominated as they did DDI Monster Builder Contest. (via @WolfStar76) The official Gen Con Tell me About Your PC contest! Go ahead, it time to talk ......
Live from GenCon
We have arrived at our GenCon hotel. While we’ll make every effort to put a few posts up as the convention goes on, stealing away enough time to write a post can be difficult. If ......
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-08-08
Excellent post by SlyFlourish on Battle Maps Top 10 Comic Book Cities from Architects Journal Chris Youngs, EIC of Dragon, addresses edition war topics (including roleplaying in 4e) DDI (sub required): Ampersand says it’s not going ......
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-08-01
Cool post from @RyanMacklin about Montages for D&D 4e Keith Baker has begun to write up his gaming/traveling adventures in Have Dice, WIll Travel Diana Jones Award nominees announced Tom Vasel’s evil twin reviews “Are You The Traitor?...
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-07-25
The story on Evony (hint: it’s not good) Jack Vance glowingly profiled in New York Times (via Robin D. Laws) Attention Citizens! The @AlphaComplex and @Friend_Computer are on Twitter. Anyone questioning the duplication is a Traitor. First photo...
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-07-18
RPGA updates for GenCon Help make Chris Pramas an epic 4e character for Green Ronin prizes Magic: The Gathering Jones Sodas (one for each color) Missed Free RPG Day? WotC posted the Eberron adventure, Khyber’s Harvest ......
2009 Ennie Award Nominations
You can view the entire list of nominees at the Ennie homepage or at this thread on ENWorld. But let’s get this out of the way first: Best Website Critical Hits Dungeon-A-Day Kobold Quarterly Mad Brew Labs Obsidian Portal Forgive me losing ......
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-07-11
Game designer Mike Selinker talks about the Battletech pods The Munchkin Super Sekrit Project has, apparently, become available! The MUNCHKIN iPHONE APP! (via @muskrat_john) 10 Business Lessons I Learned from D&D The first two week publicat...
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-07-04
Big Weekend for Dominion: It won both an Origins Award and the Spiel des Jahres Top 20 sites on the RPG Bloggers Network Cole of PvPonline serves up some wonderful DM advice (via Asmor) “My favorite ......
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-06-27
Next D&D Minis Set “Legendary Evils” spoilers posted DDI: Class Acts The Bard Paragon Paths for Bardic Multiclassers, including a Daring Blade (Order of the Stick reference?) Details on the Doctor Who RPG D&D appearances in we...
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-06-20
BSG board game getting Pegasus expansion So You Think You Can Dragonlance DDI: Revenant (DDI Exclsuive) The race so nice you’ll live your life twice. Revenant neatly fixes the problem with DDI exclusive content by using ......
4e Lite
I think you could take 4e and remove the powers system for a "rules-lighter" experience. Here's roughly how it would go:...
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-06-13
“The cumulative effect of bad design…is nothing less than a slow erosion of the human spirit.” (via Boardgamenews) Excuse Me, Miss. Didn’t I See You In The Monster Manual 2? High Fantasy vs. Sword & ......
One Year Later for 4e Podcast
A whole pile of bloggers and podcasters, including the likes of At-Will, Dungeonmastering, ChattyDM, Gamer's Haven, Sly Flourish, and yours truly, got together to ask James Wyatt and Chris Perkins of Wizards of the Coast about various topics related ...
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-06-06
Big news in DDI: Assassin coming in September w/ new power source, revenant undead race in June, Psion in July. Character builder now includes: “classic heroes such as Drizzt Do’Urden, Raistlin, and Jim Darkmagic ......
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-05-30
Spiel Des Jahres nominees announced. A great bunch in the nominees! (Not so excited about the recommended titles) The Old School determiner is awesome. The very last “Lying in the Gutters” column by Rich Johnston but he ......
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-05-23
Chuck renewed for third season (but with cutbacks) http://bit.ly/DQNWs # Kirk’s dad is Thor http://bit.ly/1avfoB # D&D 3.5 Monster Advancer http://www.monsteradvancer.com/ # RT @gamefiend: A home for skill challenges on the web: The Skillfo...
