News in Review for Dec 6 to Dec 12 2010
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From WotC this week, we got some great excerpts from the upcoming Famine at Far-Go, a supplement for D&D Gamma World due to be released this month, as well as a new adventure in Dungeon Magazine, Bark at the Moon, Part 1. There was also a news of upcoming releases from Bart Carroll in the December News and Beyond that is definitely worth a reading.
The 4E Blogging Community was also hard at work this week, with several discussions about the upcoming Virtual Table Top release that many D&D gamers are now in the beta test. You can check out a nice blog about the DDI VTT at The Spirits of Eden in the blog entitled Wizard’s Virtual Game Table. Over at Dungeon’s Master.com, Ameron has been tackling the topic of overusing the extended rest in an interesting new series of blogs on The 5-Minute Work Day: Blame the Players and The 5-Minute Work Day: Solutions. And Phil the ChattyDM at Critical-Hits.com has announced his new work being released by Goodman Games in his recent blog, From Here to There: Finally Here!
So be sure and check out all the great news and reviews this week for D&D 4E – even if you’re scrambling to finish your holiday plans and shopping lists!
So until next blog… I wish you Happy Gaming!
Blogs at Neuroglyph Games This Week:
Review of Tankard Tales: Willowbark by Myth Merchant Press
EN World Review – Dungeon Master’s Kit by WotC
D&D 4E News This Week:
- WotC has released the first Famine in Far-Go Excerpts, offering Player-Characters two new Character Options for their origins: Gelatinous and Temporal.
- Matt Sernett pens a Dragon Magazine Feature Article about the Shifters in the Forgotten Realms, offering new Character options for those who were Born Under a Violent Moon. Now available for DDI Subscribers.
- Bart Carroll looks ahead to December and Beyond, for new product releases like Dungeon Tiles: Caverns of Icewind Dale in January, Gamma World Legion of Gold in February, and the Heroes of Shadow in March!
- Mike Shea at Sly Flourish.com discusses the advantages in Interviewing Potential Players for your D&D game.
- Wimwick at Dungeon’s Master.com has a commentary on the lack of “spacial” mundane items in 4E by asking: “What’s In Your Inventory?“
- Ari Marmell reveals a tale from the Feywild’s Court of Stars, and tells of the powerful fey power known as The Bramble Queen. Now available in this month’s Dungeon Magazine.
- Kobold Quarterly has a nasty trap to make the lights go out in deep dark dungeons with the Dust of Candle Snuffing.
- Ameron at Dungeon’s Master.com looks at the problem of Players wanting to many extended rests in The 5-Minute Work Day: Blame the Players.
- David Gibson has some recommendations on Customizing Your Game by allowing Players to use Reflavoring Powers to make them match their Characters.
- Kobold Quarterly has a nifty way to Use Skill Challenges to Start Combat (Part 1 of 3).
- Bartoneus at Critical-Hits.com offers another installment of The Architect DM: World Building By Process.
- Ameron at Dungeon’s Master.com looks for solutions to the problem of Players wanting to many extended rests in The 5-Minute Work Day: Solutions.
- In the new Class Acts: Runepriest, discover what powers might be unleashed when Characters invoke Lost Runes of Unmaking. Now in Dragon #394.
- Chris Sims at Critical-Hits.com blogs in his Analysis Paralysis some key things to keep in mind, On Writing as a process.
- Bartoneus at Critical-Hits.com offers another installment of The Architect DM: World Building By Process.
- The Tome Show.com released podcast Episode 158 all about designing Dungeons
- ChattyDM at Critical-Hits.com announces that From Here to There: Finally Here!
- Dungeon’s Master.com reports on D&D Encounters: Keep on the Borderlands (Week 12).
- This is My Game.com suggests some ways to make monsters more interesting in Monsterology 101: Flavor.
- Bark at the Moon, Part 1 is the new adventure in Dungeon #185, taking Characters of Level 5-7 on a journey to the Feywild to stop a a terrible threat.
- WotC has an Excerpt from the upcoming release of the Wilderness Master Tiles, with 5 images of tiles you can find and use to bring your tabletop adventures to life.
- WotC has more Famine in Far-Go Excerpts, including new cards for having a mutant with Cryptic Alliances to bizarre organizations like the Children of the Atom (Radioactivists)!
- Andrew Jacob at RPGNet.com takes a look at the new D&D boardgame showcased at GenCon2010 with a Review of Castle Ravenloft.
- Gato the News Robot at Critical-Hits.com has a listing of the Critical Bits for the week ending 2010-12-12.
- Dungeon’s Master.com posts another Tomb of Horrors: Actual Play Podcasts (Part 3).
- At The Spirits of Eden, check out more information about Wizard’s Virtual Game Table.
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