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Retro Critical Hits
Greetings everyone, Danny (aka Bartoneus) here! You may have noticed that late last week and over the weekend Critical Hits was in “Retro” mode and now that our layout is back a lot of things are still messed up. A lot of the problems s...
Statement from Wizards of the Coast Regarding Fansite Toolkit
Months back, Wizards of the Coast released their "Fansite Toolkit", essentially a package of images that could be used for bloggers and similar in exchange for agreeing to, well, a lot of terms about citations, trademarks, and usage. The release rais...
Critical Hits 4th Blogiversary
Art by Jared von Hindman - Head Injury Theater So yeah, we’ve been doing this for roughly 4 years now. I don’t want to make a big deal out of it, but Danny and myself did want to send out a big thanks to all our readers. Our biggest joy o...
Preview: Magic the Gathering – Planechase
While at GenCon this year I got to sit down and play a preview game of the new Magic the Gathering variation called Planechase that Wizards of the Coast is releasing September 4th. Like MtG except there is always one plane in play that drastically c...
GenCon 2009: High Level D&D Seminar
While at GenCon this year there were many events and seminars which I wanted to attend, but one of the seminars that I really didn't want to miss was the High Level D&D one hosted by Bruce Cordell and Stephen Schubert from Wizards of the Coast....
Congratulations to Obsidian Portal and Kobold Quarterly
The winners of the 2009 Ennies for Best Website, Kobold Quarterly took the silver and Obsidian Portal took the gold. Congratulations to them both: while I would have loved to have won, they both definitely deserve it. I read Kobold Quarterly whenever...
Inq. of the Week: Cataclysm?
This passed weekend was Blizzcon '09 which came with a slew of new announcements from everyone's favorite delayed publishing game company. (Yes, I'm still bitter about Starcraft: Ghost - No, I will not let it go until StarCraft 2 actually comes ou...
GenCon 2009: 4e Extravaganza (with Photos)
On Friday at GenCon, we attended the 4e Extravaganza, which was where the new setting was announced (which I'm sure everyone has heard by now is Dark Sun). However, there were a number of other products showcased, some new, some already known, and a ...
4E 2010 Setting – Dark Sun!
That’s right, Dark Sun will be coming out at Gencon next year! The cover looks awesome! I’ll be posting all of the pictures soon. Also Demonomicon, Plane Above, and many others....
GenCon 4e Preview: The Assassin
A sort of stealth promotion is going here at GenCon from WotC, where if you sign up for D&D Insider (or re-up your subscription) you receive a bound book that contains an 11th level Halfling ......
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 ......
Inq. of the Week: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
I am going to subject you all to another question about what you'd like to see here, but focused on our immediate future. These answers will help us to determine where we should spend our time and energy at GenCon. While we already have a packed sche...
Time is running out to vote for Critical Hits! Voting ends Saturday Night!
You only have until the end of Saturday, 8/1 to vote for us in the 2009 Ennie Awards for Best Website. (Remember, you don’t need to vote for any other category if you don’t want ......
Hands On: Monster Builder Beta
The Monster Builder was released today to DDI subscribers, allowing us to build our own monsters for 4e. Of course, we could already do that... through Asmor's Monster Maker, the Dungeonmastering Tools, or WotC's own bonus tools utility. So what does...
Ennies Voting is Open: Vote for Critical Hits!
Voting has opened in the Ennie Awards and we are nominated for Best Website. We’re up against tough competition: every single one of the other nominees puts out a site that I quite enjoy and ......
Two Words to Convince You to Buy Kobold Quarterly #10
Gelantinous Cubes. We don’t have to tell you that Kobold Quarterly is great, or that it’s been nominated for 3 Ennies (though it’s going down in the Best Website category!), or that it includes tons of ......
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 ......
Origins 2009: Exhibit Hall in Words, Pictures, and Sounds
One of the biggest draws of any big game convention is the exhibit hall, and Origins is no exception. This year saw a return to using the entirety of the exhibit hall for booths. There's always plenty for gamers to spend their hard earned cash on, an...
One Page Dungeon Winners Announced
The winners of the One Page Dungeon contest have been announced over at ChattyDM and Old Guy RPG Blog. I was honored to serve on the judging panel, and I’m glad to give a hearty ......
Origins Awards 2009
I reported live from the 35th Annual Origins Awards via the Critical Hits twitter feed, but here’s the results, with all the nominees and winners: Play By Mail Atlas Games Play by Post Forums by Atlas Games Heldenwelt ......
Inq. of the Week: Opinions of E3 2009?
For the past week I've been hearing faint whispers around the edges of my radar about E3 going on, but it feels like this year everything is far more muted than it has been in previous years. The only thing that I've really heard a lot of excitement...
Special Promo for Dungeonmastering Tools: Free Open Game Table
Editor’s Note: We’ve been fans of Dungeonmastering since the beginning, and so we’re happy to help promote his new tools that help you run your 4e game, as well as a way to get Open ......
With Karate (And Psionics) I’ll Kick Your Ass
Monks are Psionic. (Yes, "Martial Striker" was half wrong). As per the Design & Development article that accompanied it, Ki is a dead power source (though some third party products have already tried to use it). Personally, I have no problem wit...
Free 4th Edition
GURPS Lite: “GURPS Lite is a 32-page distillation of the basic GURPS rules. It covers the essentials of character creation, combat, success rolls, adventuring, and game mastering for GURPS Fourth Edition.” Ars Magica: “The fourth...
Origins Awards Nominees 2009: Picks and Commentary
icv2 has published the list of Origins Awards nominees. The nominees are decided by retailers at the GAMA Trade Show, and then attendees of Origins vote on the winners, and are announced at a ceremony on site (which we've covered two years in a row n...
Announcing the One Page Dungeon Contest
You could win tons of dungeon-related prizes just by coming up with a one page dungeon. Interested? I’ve attached the press release by the contest organizers with all the details. I should also mention that I’m ......
RIP Dave Arneson
Dave Arneson, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, passed away on April 7th at the age of 61. While Gygax was eventually given much of the credit for the initial creation of D&D, Arneson's camapign setting Blackmoor would shape the paradigm o...
Open Game Table Vol. 1: Now Available!
Open Game Table, the Anthology of RPG Blogs, has finally been released for your purchasing. Aside from containg an article from our very own The Main Event, I worked heavily with Jonathan Jacobs in getting ......
Interview: Monte Cook about Dungeonaday.com
Monte Cook just announced his ambitious new project: Dungeonaday.com. Of course, as primarily a 4e DM and player, my first question was "would I be able to use it in my campaign?" So I went to the source, and asked Mr. Cook himself that very question...
Open Game Table: Anthology
Our friend Jonathan over at The Core Mechanic has announced the release date for his first Open Game Table project, The Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs. This anthology is a great collection of RPG blog posts, chosen by members of the community, ...
