News in Review for Apr 19 to Apr 25 2010
I have to say I really enjoyed this week’s D&D 4E News articles and blogs. There were some great pieces out there like Kobold Quarterly’s 4E Week, with tons of great 4E articles on their website. And, of course, the return of the Deck of Many Things to 4E was hard not to notice. That magical deck of cards seems to have an uncanny appeal, despite the fact that it has wrecked more campaigns over the years than we even want to think about!
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The Doombringer Saga is set to begin release the first week of May, so sign up soon!
- In Bazaar of the Bizarre, your Characters can wield the mighty Items of the Drizzt Saga!
- Winning Races takes a look at Goliaths: Giants of War, with new backgrounds, feats, and a paragon path for making larger-than-life arena fighters.
- WotC has finally posted an official press release about the upcoming D&D Comic Books.
- InWhat Race Are You? we get an excerpt from the upcoming D&D Player’s Strategy Guide, with a nifty little quiz to learn your own fantasy racial tendencies!
- In the Power Play column in Dragon #386, Shadow: Covenant Agents reveals new Assassin and Avenger Powers and Feats, and even a new Paragon Class for the covert operatives with a divine mission.
- Kobold Quarterly reveals a nasty phantasm, called a Trap Wisp, which haunt kobold warrens long after their tribe has died!
- Chris Sims at Critical-Hits.com digs into the Mailbag for his 3rd discussion on freelancing, The Pitch.
- Kobold Quarterly has announced a 4E week on their website, and offers a series on Inspiring Terrains, with Part 1 of 5 discussing Snowy Mountain Peaks.
- Critical-Hits.com’s Bartoneus voices a bit of outrage in Save vs. Misogyny: An Open Letter To Gen Con’s Event Organizers, regarding the “Activities for the Better Half” at GenCon this year.
- Dave the Game did a podcast on The Tome Show website – Tome Ep 131: Skill Challenge Advice.
- In Class Acts this month, Warden Characters are offered a new background with the introduction of The Coterie of the All Spirit, a new organization for this primal class.
- Bart Carroll hosts a short Spotlight Interview with 3 Quick Questions: Rodney Thompson.
- Wolfgang at Kobold Quarterly discusses the release of their new 4E adventure module in Sex and Trickery in Courts of the Shadow Fey!
- Dixon over at Critical-Hits.com writes an editorial regarding “power-gaming” in 4E called Min/Max Mashup.
- Dungeon’s Master.com’s Bauxtehude posts the Part 2 of Creating and Running Engaging Skill Challenges.
- Gamer’s Haven has a new podcast An Interview with Wolfgang Bauer, the Kobold-In-Chief of Kobold Quarterly.
- There’s a new Channel Divinity in Dragon #386 this month, revealing an archfey named the Rose King, a son of Corellon, lord of the House of Flowers, and offering new feats and magic items for his followers.
- The D&D Alumni research the evolution of the Deck of Many Things, from its AD&D roots to its current 4E version.
- At Kobold Quarterly, it’s “4E Week”, and there’s some new ideas for using Action Points in Skill Challenge in Action: The Skill Challenge.
- In this Feature Article in this month’s Dragon Magazine, there are some “New Tricks for Old Familiars” in Familiar Power: Sorcerers!
- WotC Developer Rodney Thompson pulls out an old-time infamous artifact for Dungeon #177 with The Deck of Many Things: A Dangerous Presence Returns!
- In this excerpt from the upcoming D&D Player’s Strategy Guide, Characters who have powers that dish out ongoing damage are discussed in Deal Damage Forever!
- Kobold Quarterly’s, “4E Week” wraps up Friday with the return of an old Player Race (circa AD&D era) – meet the Half-Ogre PC Race!
- Mike Shea posted a blog on Critical-Hits.com musing about How the iPad Changes D&D.
- EN World announced a new release from Alluria Press, Fey Folio: Unseelie Court. This monster manual of over 20 new fey creatures is available now!
- Scott Wallace at Critical-Hits.com has a “flavour feast” called The Planar Orphan, with a great back-story and a dangerous eladrin villain.
- Save vs. Death.com is starting a series of features on how to build “the most callous, bleak, brutally oppressive 4th Edition world possible”, with the first installment: The Campaign Setting Hates You: Gods and the World!
- Wyatt at Spirits-of-Eden.com has a Review: Kobold Quarterly 13 – and some sort of frog video?!
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