Youseph Tanha
Well my name is Youseph Tanha. I am a 29-year-old working as a facility manager in Juneau, Alaska. In the past I have worked in the tech industry for web hosting and Internet...
February 17, 2010
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40 Years a Gamer – A Life in 100 Games
My thoughts on the new D&D “red box”
It recently came to my attention (mainly by means of fellow RPG Blogger Greywulf’s post) that WotC will be releasing a new D&D 4th Edition Starter Box later this year. I have to...
February 4, 2010
Get a free copy of KQ#10 until January 31
I think everyone already knows about the KQ store giving away the PDF version of Kobold Quarterly #10 for free until the end of the month. This post is just meant as a...
January 28, 2010
D&D 4th Edition – is it D&D?
There are people who believe D&D 4th Edition is not really worthy of the name Dungeons & Dragons while others say that 4th Edition is more D&D than it ever was. We’ve seen...
January 18, 2010
D&D4e / Just my two cents / Legacy D&D / News & Reviews / Other Systems / Random musings / RPG / Savage Worlds / WHFRP
Best & Worst of Gaming 2009 [Part 4]
So, this is the last part of my look back at 2009. I won’t bore you with stories from the past from now on, because we live in the future now! 😉 Thanks...
January 6, 2010
Best & Worst of Gaming 2009 [Part 2]
In Part 2 of this series I have a look at public relations and RPG websites. If you’ve missed Part 1, you can check it out here. Best Public Relations Another tough pick,...
January 2, 2010
Lazy Friday Video Post: The Dungeons and the Dragons
This video shows us why you never should invite your mom to play D&D! You have been warned!
October 9, 2009
Breaking News: Roleplaying finally possible in D&D 4th Edition
When D&D 4th Edition was released a lot of people argued that it wasn’t not D&D anymore, that it was more like a boardgame and that the rules actually hinder roleplaying. But today...
September 24, 2009
Follow-up: D&D 4th Edition Firearms
In last October I created some rules for simple firearms for D&D 4th Edition that are still very popular. Some days ago the reader Perfidius posted an interesting comment that I think is...
September 14, 2009
My stance on D&D 4th Edition
When you read some of my older post you’ll notice that I praised D&D 4th Edition on numerous occasions and recently I have become more of a critic. For quite some time I...
September 3, 2009
On WotC’s fan site kit policy
Yesterday our side of the Twitterverse was in uproar about Wizard’s silly new fan site kit policy. I usually don’t cover 4th Edition stuff and I’ve decided to stop posting about D&D 4th...
August 7, 2009
Preview: Kobold Quarterly 10
Warning! This preview has been written by someone who has never read any issue of Kobold Quarterly before. Yes, its true. I have never read an issue of KQ before. I guess KQ...
July 21, 2009
Interview with Wolfgang Baur
Some days ago I managed to arrange an interview with Wolfgang Baur, Kobold-in-Chief of Kobold Quarterly. Wolfgang Baur is a RPG industry veteran and has worked for many companies including Wizards of the...
July 20, 2009
Using Savage Worlds for an Eberron campaign
Inspired by Berin Kinsman’s post “Why Savage Worlds is Heir to 3rd Edition” I am thinking about running an Eberron Campaign using Savage World rules. Some of you are probably asking why someone...
June 18, 2009
Minions in D&D 4th Edition: Hit or Miss?
Generally I like the new rules for minions in D&D 4th Edition. They are several reasons why minions are fun: you can throw dozens of enemies at the players without killing them off...
April 16, 2009
I usually don’t agree with RPGPundit …
… but this time, he’s right. His comment on the current situation with Wizards of the Coast pulling the plug on all of their PDFs is spot on. And if you check out...
April 8, 2009
Wizards of the Coast stops all PDF sales
Yesterday RPGNow announced that WotC has notified them that they no longer are allowed to sell or distribute WotC’s PDF products. That means even if you have purchased WotC PDF products over RPGNow...
April 7, 2009
And I thought D&D 4th Edition cosmology was less complicated than this…
Today’s Penny Arcade comic is about the cosmology of D&D 4th Edition and if you ask me this version is much more accessible and less confusing than the cosmology we had before. But...
March 20, 2009
Avenger or Bard? What class should I play?
For our D&D 4th Edition game on Saturday we decided to create new characters using classes from the PHB2. My girlfriend was pretty unhappy with the Warlord she played before and I wanted...
March 20, 2009
The way it’s meant to be played
Recently a lot of bloggers all over the network started to write about old-school gaming and how it differs from newer gaming styles. And although I got the impression that the discussion that...
March 13, 2009