Posted By Editor-in-Chief on January 26, 2012
Greetings good Readers and fellow D&D gamers!
Today is the first day of the DDXP convention down in Indiana this weekend, and I understand that some of us have had a chance to try their hand at D&D Next. In fact, EN World has a transcript of excerpts from the D&D Next Seminar from the DDXP convention, and there is a lot of interesting tidbits being dropped by Mike Mearls, Jeremy Crawford, and Monte Cook about the new edition!
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Tags: adventure, EN World, Paizo, Pathfinder, review, Rite Publishing
Posted By Editor-in-Chief on January 19, 2012
Greetings Gentle Readers! I hope that this week is going well for you all, and I double that hope for those who dwell in the snowy northwest, which I understand is currently being blanketed with the snowstorm of the century. While the amount of snowfall up near Seattle is causing all sorts of problems for travelers, including our favorite game designers at Wizards of the Coast, I have to admit I chuckled a bit when I heard how much snow had actually fallen. Here in Michigan, we would barely consider what fell up there in the Pacific Northwest much more than a light snowfall, barely more than flurries… and I’m certain that Clevelanders and folks in Buffalo would hardly even bother to measure the snow at all except to call it a “trifling” accumulation.
In honor of the snowy weather, I have reviewed the Winter Edition of Kobold Quarterly Magazine – Issue #20 – and the first installment of the 2012 calendar year. (more…)
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Tags: D&D 4e, EN World, Kobold Quarterly, Pathfinder, review
Posted By Editor-in-Chief on January 17, 2012
Ever since I started DMing 4E, I’ve tried to champion the use of rituals in my D&D campaign. While I know that to some players, the use of rituals is not exactly top on their list of priorities as heroic adventurers, I have managed to prove over time that rituals can be a useful, and even necessary part of questing in a D&D setting.
But my Athas campaign has always bothered me a little bit, because rituals don’t really seem to “fit” into the setting. This is mainly because rituals are either arcane or divine, and the Dark Sun Setting doesn’t deal very well with heroes using arcane magic, due to the defiling issues, and divine magic is somewhat useless without gods around to power them. Sure primordial forces could be used as a substitute for the power source, but rituals requiring Religion or Arcana skill rolls might be problematic.
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Tags: D&D 4e, dark sun, discussion, psionics, rituals
Posted By Editor-in-Chief on January 13, 2012
Greetings fellow gamers! I trust everyone is having a great first month of this new year. As some may have noticed, I have been a bit silent since the holidays, and haven’t posted too many reviews and blogs. Sadly, between Christmas and New Year’s, I came down with raging case of strep throat, and spent New Years’ Eve feverish and buried under blankets, sipping throat-soothing tea instead of high balls and champaign. But I have finally kicked the last of the nasty infection out of my system, and am back to blogging and reviewing once again!
This week, I have had the opportunity to review a (relatively) new fantasy role-playing game system called The Secret Fire. It is purportedly drawn from unpublished notes by E. Gary Gygax himself, found by screen writer George Strayton as he researched the Founder of D&D’s life and times for a film. Originally to be called Legend and Labyrinths, The Secret Fire is lauded by Gail Gygax as “following in the footsteps of the inventor and master of roleplaying games, Gary Gygax”. (more…)
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Tags: D&D, EN World, fantasy roleplaying game, gary gygax, review, the secret fire
Posted By Editor-in-Chief on January 10, 2012
Yesterday morning, Wizards of the Coast finally dropped the bombshell on the D&D Community that gamers have been anticipating – and possibly, dreading – for several months now: Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition is on the way! The announcement came from Mike Mearls in the recent installment of the Legends & Lore column, under a title of Charting the Course for D&D. However, what I think surprised many in the D&D community was an rather unexpected twist which was hinted at in the subtitle for the article – Your Voice, Your Game. It appears that for the new edition of D&D, WotC will be gathering input from gamers not only of the current edition, but from all previous editions as well! (more…)
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