It was just a few weeks ago that Wizards of the Coast announced their decision to immediately discontinue their distribution of DnD via PDF. Which, you know, screwed over a whole lot of people who have paid for multiple downloads of WOTC content. The publisher cited digital piracy as the reason for its decision. Immediately, […]
Sean Patrick Fannon’s 2008 was not his best year. The Shaintar author described the year as “significantly difficult” in a blog from last October. He went on to paint a very dismal picture of 2008: “The love of my life shattered my heart;” “A family member has, in the course of destroying his own life, […]
Last time I told you all about two of the ways to handle overland travel in D&D (and other fantasy games). Today we’re going to jump headfirst into even more techniques. Again, think of these as different knobs and dials you can adjust in order to make overland travel as easy or as complicated as […]
Sometimes, an idea is presented that is so awesome that I hate that I wasn’t the one that thought of it! This is oneCourtesy of Sham’s Grog ‘n Blog, Chgowiz’s Old Guy RPG Blog and Mike’s Society of the Torch, Pole and Rope comes the One Page Dungeon Creation Contest.
Welcome, weary internet travelers! The kind overlords at Ideology of Madness have given me this new column as a place to spew my incoherent babbling about gaming. Some would say I already do that enough over at The Podge Cast, but some brain droppings are better consumed in a visual medium such as this than […]
Earlier this week, Twitter was – well – all a-twitter about the death of Dave Arneson, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons. He was dead. He wasn’t dead. Oh way, he’s dead. Twitter was wrong, but then not so wrong. Dave Arneson lost his epic-level combat with cancer on April 7, 2009. I didn’t know Dave. […]
To the delight of gamers everywhere, Pinnacle Entertainment Group has announced it will be releasing a plot point book for Space 1889 utilizing their award winning Savage Worlds system. I learned of this development in today’s special episode of The Game’s The Thing in which Pinnacle’s Clint Black announced the project along with a few […]
I’ve made enough comparisons at this point to Fallout 3 that I suppose I should actually write a review on it. I’ll just give you my stance on it right now: It is easily the best game I have played so far on the Xbox 360. Granted, I haven’t played much on my 360 so […]
In all of this talk recently of playing the evil character, there has been very little conversation about how the game master should run an evil campaign. Three episodes of two highly rated podcasts have been dedicated to the subject of playing the bad guys. These villains won’t GM themselves after all. Though they’ll try. […]
Last week writing in response to a recent Fear the Boot episode, I blogged about role playing evil characters. This week in what can only be characterized as wild coincidence, The Podge Cast recorded episode 35, Evil Urges. Guess what I’m blogging about today? The guys brought their A-game for this episode. From purely evil […]