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Gencon in Review

Scott — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:03:33 +0000

I was treated to a short adventure of my own on my way home from Gencon: my return flight was evidently booked for September 16, instead of August 16. Of course, with a hundred thousand gamers leaving Indianapolis on Sunday, all of the flights out were fully booked. Fortunately, a ticketing agent for Continental went [...]

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Gencon in Review

Cryptic Offering Lifetime Subscription to Champions MMO

Scott — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:39:14 +0000

Cryptic Studios, formerly of City of Heroes, has been working on the Champions MMORPG set for release September 1. They’re taking a page from Turbine and offering a lifetime subscription for $200. They’re throwing in extra costumes, an in-game widget, eight extra character slots for alt-aholics like me, and access to the Star Trek Online [...]

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Cryptic Offering Lifetime Subscription to Champions MMO

Pathfinder Sells Out

Scott — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:45:51 +0000

According to Paizo, as of Monday, their Pathfinder game’s core rulebook has sold out its first printing. Now, this is mostly distributor orders — not actual sales — and there’s no indication of how large the first print run is. Still, it’s a pretty impressive accomplishment. I suspected that the initial sales would be very [...]

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Pathfinder Sells Out

Of Possible Interest… (PDFs)

Scott — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:38:59 +0000

…EN World is offering a whole bunch of assorted PDFs for $1 each. The sale runs until Gencon. I know, I’m a little late with this one, but it slipped my mind. My free time has mostly been occupied with writing a piece for Nevermet Press. They’re a bunch of cool fellows. Have you checked [...]

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Of Possible Interest… (PDFs)

I may have to spring for Mutants & Masterminds…

Scott — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:15:41 +0000

I heard today that the new supplement, Mecha & Manga, is near release. A little late, judging by Amazon’s publication date, but these things happen. I don’t watch much anime these days, but I’m a fan from way back, and manga and anime style have informed my roleplaying for almost two decades. A well-done anime [...]

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I may have to spring for Mutants & Masterminds…

Deep Psi

Scott — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:27:56 +0000

Side note first: I fixed a problem that might have been keeping comments from working correctly, so if you’ve tried to leave one lately and failed, you should be able to now. On to the main post. Recently, I decided I’d try a subscription to Insider. Although I didn’t see a lot of purpose to [...]

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Wizards’ Monk Playtest

Scott — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:49:45 +0000

Although I’m not a D&D Insider subscriber, I got a look at the playtest version of the 4e monk — a class that is dear to my heart. I’d speculated previously that the PHB3 classes would be more complex than their earlier counterparts, and the playtest document seems to confirm that, to an extent. At [...]

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Wizards’ Monk Playtest

Review: Open Game Table Anthology, Volume 1

Scott — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:23:28 +0000

I’ve mentioned Open Game Table: The Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs, Volume 1 before, but last week I got my hands on the hard copy and set to reading it. The long and the short of it: It met my expectations (and they were high) in every way. Jonathan Jacobs, of The Core Mechanic, brought [...]

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Review: Open Game Table Anthology, Volume 1

RPG Blog Anthology: Kudos

Scott — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:17:36 +0000

A long-overdue nod to the Open Game Table RPG Blog Anthology, today. Jonathan of The Core Mechanic has done yeoman work getting this thing together, and it’s nearly ready for print. He’s got a cover design now, and it looks… well, it looks damn good. It looks like a book I wouldn’t be surprised to [...]

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RPG Blog Anthology: Kudos

Gygax

Scott — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:13:27 +0000

One year ago today, E. Gary Gygax passed on. He was a lot of things. Not all of them good, of course; he was as human as everybody, and on occasion, he could come off as a self-important blowhard, a man who at times fervently claimed that there was only one correct way of playing [...]

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Gygax