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Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #5
Now that it is nearing the end of 2009, at long last I bring you my final in depth analysis of the Monster Manual 2 and the creatures contained therein. While the book has been out for half of a year now, I still have not gotten anywhere close to usi...
Are You Watching Venture Brothers Yet?
About three weeks after the 3rd season of The Venture Brothers started, I wrote about it to make sure that anyone who hadn’t heard of it by then knew to check it out (Venture Brothers: Watch It). Now it is three weeks into the 4th season and I&...
Review: “Kobold Quarterly #11″
There’s a reason every review I see of the Kobold Quarterly magazine compares it to the Dragon and Dungeon print magazines from years passed, even opening a PDF of the book and seeing the cover makes me immediately think of seeing those issues ...
Preview: “Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons”
Through an unexpected source, we were able to get our hands on an early copy of the sequel to last year’s Draconomicon, this one focusing on the metallic dragons. In previous editions, metallic dragons were good aligned, meaning that a DM would...
Preview & Review: “Primal Power”
Late last week, with a copy of Primal Power in hand, I decided to give people a chance to preview the book by asking questions that I would answer on Twitter as well as at our page on Facebook. Below I'll share most of the questions and answers from...
Our Ladies of Sorrow: Modern Gaming, Scary Women
To D&D players, it can take some explanation of why I like modern gaming and put it on my list of favorite gaming genres. I like that there’s no buy-in, and I find that it’s easier to pull off horror and weirdness stories since the ch...
Review: “Fantasy Craft”
Fantasy Craft is a D&D 3.0 OGL full-service RPG that boasts a robust set of classes, innovative and interesting feats, and a refreshing skill-based system of spell casting. With systems for item crafting, downtime for players, acquisition of hol...
Review: “Revenge of the Giants”
Revenge of the Giants is the first WotC "mega-adventure" for 4e. It's also the first adventure put out by them for 4e that comes in hardback book form (with a double-sided flip map attached in the back) instead of the double book folio style. The boo...
Review: “Dungeon Master’s Guide 2″
For Dungeon Masters of all stripes, new and experienced both, the DMG2 is a must-have and will challenge the ideas of even someone who regularly dispenses advice on running RPGs (such as myself). This is the first 4e book that I can recommend to non-...
Review: Lord of the Rings Risk – Trilogy Edition
Overview Lord of the Rings Risk: Trilogy Edition, a board game by Hasbro and Parker Brothers released in 2003, takes the classic game of Risk and transports it into Tolkien’s Middle Earth. In addition to ......
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...
Review: “Dragon Magazine Annual”
When WotC announced that the venerable Dragon and Dungeon magazines were becoming digital-only offerings, the reaction was controversial. The magazines are only available in PDF, and to subscribers of the D&D Insider service. There is still no w...
Review: “Adventurer’s Vault 2″
The second arms and equipment resource book, Adventurer's Vault 2 is much like the first installment but this time presenting a myriad of items for (as the cover says) ALL character classes. This book begins to fill out some of the under represented...
Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #4
Continuing a series of posts I did in May, I take a more in depth look at each monster entry in the 4th Edition Monster Manual 2!...
Quick Review: Adventure Art – Issue #1
Mythic Design has released a new product called Adventure Art in a series of issues, with the subtitle “Professional Artwork for Use in Your Roleplaying Games”. They were kind enough to provide us with the ......
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...
Review: “Eberron Campaign Guide”
The DM companion book to the Eberron Player's Guide, the Eberron Campaign Guide presents all of the information a DM could need to run a 4th Edition D&D game in the unique and interesting fantasy world of Eberron. Unlike the Player's Guide, thi...
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 ......
Review: “Divine Power”
Divine Power is the latest sourcebook for the 4th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons that includes new options for the Avenger, Cleric, Invoker, and Paladin classes. Each class gets a new build along with a ton of new powers, paragon paths, feats, a...
Product Tie-in Video Games 101: A Lesson in Love and Paychecks
Today we're going to be discussing one of the biggest money makers for video game studios; Product Tie-ins. They are something that we’ve been accustomed to in video games, and all can form a general consensus when we hear their name said. From E.T...
Put the Phone Away: A call to gamers still in the dark ages of handhelds (Part 2)
Although the PSP is selling wonderfully in many other parts of the world, it has struggled in the US market since its release. It would be hard to call it a failure with the many millions of systems sold stateside, but it definitely has struggled to ...
The Contrary Opinion - J.J. Abram’s Star Trek (With Spoilers!)
If one takes the glowing reviews of J.J. Abram’s Star Trek as a representative sample of the populace, most people love this movie. I am not most people. That is not to say that I despise ......
Review: “The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena” (Xbox 360)
For us folks who are two movies and a video game behind on knowing what the hell is going on, here's what I can gather: Space Vin Diesel washes up on some shore, and is pissed (naturally). He also looks damn good in a space wife-beater, and has sweet...
Review: Monster Manual 2
If there's one thing most DMs can agree on, it's that having more monsters to pick and choose from is better than more options for players, so the Monster Manual 2 comes as a welcome addition to 4E. The MM2 expands on many of the monsters we're alre...
Review: Omnifray
It's taken me a long time to review this product, because it's so obviously a labor of love. It takes dedication to write tens of thousands of words about your game setting and your system, then put it all together into not one but two books, and ama...
Review: Arcane Power
The second in Wizard's series of books that expand upon their power sources was released earlier this week for the 4th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons. Arcane Power follows very much in the footsteps of Martial Power except this time providing ex...
Review: The Darkness that Comes Before
I bought R. Scott Bakker’s first book purely based on its appearance on ‘top fantasy’ lists and its comparisons to the ‘realistic’ fantasy authors of Steven Erikson and George R..R. Martin. Bakker comes from an English critique and Philoso...
My 2009 Gathering of Friends Picks
I’m back from the 2009 Gathering of Friends, the 10 day long boardgaming con. I’m also (mostly) recovered. This year, I focused more on relaxing, hanging out with fellow designers, and playing prototypes moreso than playing ......
Krod Mandoon: Comedy Central caters to the RPG crowd?
What better to occupy my 10-11pm hour on the Thursday before a Friday off from work then the potentially horrible but still quite intriguing Comedy Central premiere of a fantasy-comedy series? Not much! The full title for the show is Krod Mandoon a...
Review: “Watchmen”
It's funny for a movie that is supposed to be so faithful to the book (that I have read through many, many times) that I did my best to avoid spoilers. I wanted to dive in and make the comparisons myself, without hearing what critics have to say. I a...
