At Origins 2009, Rodney Thompson and Robert Schwab hosted a seminar (courtesy of the RPGA) about designing villains for your 4e game. The seminar described the process of doing the villain design, from role in the campaign to touching on some of the...
Topics: 4e, origins, origins 2009, RPG, villains

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A few weeks back, I spotted on Twitter a new D&D event that would be held at Origins. It was the Ultimate Dungeon Delve, a timed test of our ability to get through 6 combat encounters with a 6th level team of 5 adventurers that we bring to the...
Topics: 4e, dungeon delve, origins, origins 2009, RPG

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Gamers have a predicament when they are away from their home base: they have a gnawing hunger for escapist goodness without a good way of appeasing the hungry gaming monster in their bellies. Too many of you are resigning yourselves to badly-made clones..
Topics: ds, dsi, Editorial, Featured, portable gaming, psp, Video Games

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Big news in DDI: Assassin coming in September w/ new power source, revenant undead race in June, Psion in July. Character builder now includes: “classic heroes such as Drizzt Do’Urden, Raistlin, and Jim Darkmagic ...
Topics: Critical Bits, twitter

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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 ...
Topics: Movies, Review

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