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Captain America

Scott — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:00:12 +0000

I’m still in the middle of moving — new job and new home means very few blog updates, as I’m sure anyone who’s still following me has noticed — but I had a chance yesterday to catch the Captain America movie, and it demanded comment. Captain America is a very interesting sort of superhero. He [...]

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Review: Divine Power

Scott — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:26:33 +0000

I was previously pretty happy with Martial Power and Arcane Power, and based on my initial reading, Divine Power seems to continue the trend. As you’d expect from the book’s title, this supplement for fourth-edition Dungeons & Dragons offers new options for the divine classes: avengers, clerics, invokers, and paladins. As I mentioned in earlier [...]

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Review: Divine Power

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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Foxbat for President: Sacred Cows and Hamburger

Scott — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:00:40 +0000

Sacred cows make the best hamburger, or so the saying goes. When it comes to RPGs, they tend to provide grist for the mill. There are sacred cows aplenty in rules systems, of course. That’s one of the reasons why we have edition wars: change anything, no matter how inconsequential you think it might be, [...]

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Foxbat for President: Sacred Cows and Hamburger

Review: Arcane Power

Scott — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:38:58 +0000

Following my positive experiences with Martial Power, I decided to pre-order Arcane Power, the new fourth-edition Dungeons & Dragons supplement that deals with additional options for the arcane classes: bard, sorcerer, swordmage, warlock, and wizard. Based on my initial reading, I feel pretty confident about saying that the Power line continues to display a pretty [...]

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Review: Arcane Power

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

The Pieces of Gestalt

Scott — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:00:13 +0000

Imagine a world in which personifications of concepts — Archetypes such as Winter, Death, and Determination — existed, having sprung to life in 1989. Now imagine that, in this world, a fairly large number of these personifications, these living symbols, chose to put on colorful costumes and become superheroes and supervillains. That’s the high concept [...]

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Review: Player’s Handbook 2

Scott — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:12:16 +0000

The Player’s Handbook 2 has been out for a week or so now, with sneak previews running about a week before that in several roleplaying blogs, but I’ve got some musings about where it takes the game. Before that, though, I offer my brief review: It’s partly silly and mostly good. Here’s a more specific [...]

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Review: Player’s Handbook 2

I Watch the Watchmen

Scott — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:08:56 +0000

Watched, rather. And it was good. Some spoilers below, though I’m not sure whether spoilers really apply to movies based on comics published more than two decades ago. First things first: The book was better. I don’t imagine that comes as a surprise to anyone. Books are usually better than the movies based upon them, [...]

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Review: Imperium Chronicles

Scott — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:38:01 +0000

And now for something completely different. A couple of months ago, I was given a copy of the Imperium Chronicles Basic Rules, along with a request that I review it. After my experience with Dread, I was determined to play a session or two before offering any opinions. Turns out it’s a busy time of [...]

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Review: Imperium Chronicles