Recent Posts Tagged With 'critical bits'

• Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-11-28

  Posted on Saturday November 28th, 2009 at 12:00 in twitter, critical bits

  Awesome #rpg #art – Stained glass d20s http://bit.ly/5SDj0S via @joruffin (via @aijalyn) # A good question: what would Far Realm creatures do with 31 dead goblins? http://is.gd/51Yiy # Explore Airspur… you know you want to. (DDI Sub Requ...

• Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-11-21

  Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 09:00 in twitter, critical bits

  Another article highlighting google wave and gaming http://bit.ly/4gGRMv (via @kaeosdad) | Hey, I see @greywulf there! # New blog post: Inq. of the Week: Video Formats? http://bit.ly/4FdE9x # Excerpt from Plane Below: Reasoning with a Slaad http://i...

• Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-11-14

  Posted on Saturday November 14th, 2009 at 12:00 in twitter, critical bits

  Resume as D&D character sheet (via @Sernett) Wanna get rid of Treasure Parcels in 4e? I know I do. here’s my suggestion. (via @ChattyDM) Tell me how to play 4E and OD&D (so I can ignore it) (via @IAmTavis) It turns out “Winning R...

• Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-11-09

  Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 12:00 in twitter, critical bits

  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

  Posted on Saturday October 31st, 2009 at 13:00 in twitter, critical bits

  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

  Posted on Saturday October 24th, 2009 at 13:00 in twitter, critical bits

  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

  Posted on Saturday October 24th, 2009 at 13:00 in twitter, critical bits

  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

  Posted on Saturday October 17th, 2009 at 13:00 in twitter, critical bits

  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

  Posted on Saturday October 10th, 2009 at 13:00 in twitter, critical bits

  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

  Posted on Saturday October 3rd, 2009 at 13:00 in twitter, critical bits

  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

  Posted on Saturday September 26th, 2009 at 13:00 in twitter, critical bits

  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

  Posted on Saturday September 19th, 2009 at 11:00 in twitter, critical bits

  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

  Posted on Saturday September 12th, 2009 at 11:00 in twitter, critical bits

  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

  Posted on Saturday September 5th, 2009 at 11:00 in twitter, critical bits

  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

  Posted on Saturday August 29th, 2009 at 11:00 in twitter, critical bits

  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

  Posted on Saturday August 22nd, 2009 at 11:00 in twitter, critical bits

  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

  Posted on Saturday August 15th, 2009 at 11:00 in twitter, critical bits

  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

  Posted on Wednesday August 12th, 2009 at 17:48 in news, critical bits

  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

  Posted on Saturday August 8th, 2009 at 11:00 in twitter, critical bits

  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

  Posted on Saturday August 1st, 2009 at 11:00 in twitter, critical bits

  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

  Posted on Saturday July 25th, 2009 at 11:00 in twitter, critical bits

  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

  Posted on Saturday July 18th, 2009 at 11:00 in twitter, critical bits

  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

  Posted on Monday July 13th, 2009 at 08:42 in news, rpg, critical bits, gencon, ennies, ennies2009, gencon2009

  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

  Posted on Saturday July 11th, 2009 at 11:00 in twitter, critical bits

  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

  Posted on Saturday July 4th, 2009 at 11:00 in twitter, critical bits

  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

  Posted on Saturday June 27th, 2009 at 11:00 in twitter, critical bits

  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

  Posted on Saturday June 20th, 2009 at 11:00 in twitter, critical bits

  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

  Posted on Thursday June 18th, 2009 at 12:34 in rpg, game design, critical bits, 4e

  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

  Posted on Saturday June 13th, 2009 at 11:00 in twitter, critical bits

  “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

  Posted on Wednesday June 10th, 2009 at 06:30 in interview, rpg, dnd, dungeons and dragons, critical bits, wizards of the coast, one year later, 4e, tome show

  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 ...