Gaming finds!
For quite some time I could not understand the appeal of antiquing and the TV shows about it. Likewise some of you may find the idea of shopping for bargains at discount stores...
October 12, 2010
News & Reviews
Strands of Fate
Strands of Fate is a heavily modified version of the FATE rules written by Mike McConnell. The idea behind Strands of Fate was to create a streamlined version of FATE which can be...
October 11, 2010
Advice / Ask The Readers / Feature / Fluff/Inspiration / Humor / Improve Your Game / Just my two cents / Random musings / RPG
Gaming fiction weal or woe?
Role playing games are so entrenched in their literary roots, from Beowulf to El Cantar del Mio Cid, from Howard’s Conan, to Tolkien’s Middle Earth that it is sometimes hard to separate one...
October 11, 2010
RPG books on the iPad
One of the reasons I was interested in getting an iPad was to be able to use it as a PDF viewer since I own a lot of RPG-related PDFs. Initially I thought...
October 6, 2010
Review: Kingdom Builder Generator Pack II
In February I previewed Chaotic Shiny Productions’ Kingdom Builder Generator Pack I which I helped to beta test back then. Some time ago Hannah Lipsky finished the new Kingdom Generator Pack II which...
October 4, 2010
The IT Crowd – Series 1-4 Special Edition Box Set
The IT Crowd is one of the favorite shows of geeks all around the world. A couple of days ago a special edition DVD box set including all four series has been released....
October 4, 2010
From The Imperial Library
Today I uploaded the latest WR&M supplement to DriveThruRPG. From The Imperial Library, written by Brian Brousseau is the official WR&M magic supplement. It not only contains several alternate magic systems, but also...
September 29, 2010
What about the Magus? A new Pathfinder RPG playtest…
I don’t know how I missed this… As the resident Pathfinder guy I should have been all over this, work be dammed! How did I miss the new Pathfinder RPG playtest? Well let...
September 29, 2010
Zombie Dice
While I was at the Penny Arcade Expo I waited in several lines to attend various events thought out the course of the three-day weekend. While waiting in the lines I noticed that...
September 28, 2010
Essentials and me…
This weekend I made my one D&D Essentials purchase, the Dungeon Tiles Master Set. I briefly considered buying the Rules Compendium, even had my FLGS pull a copy for me, but when I...
September 27, 2010
Dragon Age: Set 2 in Open Beta
It seems Paizo started a new trend with allowing the gamer community to beta test their products openly. Now Green Ronin has jumped the bandwagon and released an open playtest document for their...
September 22, 2010
PAX Prime 2010 – Day 2
Waking up and pulling myself out of bed I was feeling like I had been at PAX a week already. I could not figure out why I was feeling like this. Maybe it...
September 21, 2010
My thoughts on the D&D Essentials Starter aka “Red Box”
I recently got my own copy of the new Red Box. Although I am not that much interested in D&D 4th Edition, I still wanted to have a look what they’ve changed for...
September 21, 2010
D&D4e / Feature / Fluff/Inspiration / Guest Post / News & Reviews / Random musings / Reviews & First Looks / RPG
PAX Prime 2010 – Day 1
Hannah and I woke up early and eager on Friday so we could attend the PAX keynote address and meet up with our good friend Lyle. The Keynote was taking place at Benaroya...
September 20, 2010
Gamer Media, Parody and Negative Stereotypes
For at least the past year now, a close friend and gaming partner of mine has been trying to get me to watch The Gamers 2: Dorkness Rising. I refused because of what...
September 17, 2010
Arr, matey! DriveThruRPG sale ahoy!
The nice guys at DriveThruRPG let me know this morning that there will be a special sale starting tomorrow celebrating “Talk Like A Pirate Day”! There will be fantastic sales on tons of...
September 16, 2010
Don’t Be A Dick
Please note that this post first appeared as a guest post on RPG Blog 2. As some of you probably know “Don’t Be A Dick” is also known as Wheaton’s Law. And even...
September 15, 2010