This week’s blogging has been dominated by two stories: WotC PDF stupidity and the sad passing of Dave Arneson. I’ve decided not to cover those two stories in the bucket and focus on a week of great blogging that you may of missed.
- Is this vandalism? The Spirits of Eden wants Things That Break 4e
- Would Anyone Use The 4th Edition Rules If They Were NOT The Dungeons and Dragons System? is the astute question from Living Dice
- More bad publicity for WotC. Are WotC Reusing Miniatures Sculpts? asks Outsyder Gaming
- Word of Wizards is a round-up of new excerpts from WotC by Questing GM.
- Dungeon Mastering riffs on Why the tavern is the best place to start a campaign
- Something we have discussed on 6d6 Fireball but Wild Die has his say on Players who cheat
- Greyhawk Grognard writes In Praise of Polearms
- Standing out from the crowd is DND Corner on Character Ticks – Making A Character Memorable
- The extra-ordinary Exchange of Realities comments on Bringing the Ordinary Into a Storyline and covers a topic close to my heart in What the United States Census Taught Me About Party Dynamics
- Gaming Brouhaha is a man of a certain age and wonders Is this what a geek’s midlife crisis looks like?
- Greywulf has had some fun on Twitter with Werewolves versus Robots!
- Important world building advice from Campaign Mastery in Weather, Not Climate
- Good news for Chatty DM – Yay! My adventure was announced!!!
- Old school mapping excellence – The Pekulish Script by Jeff’s Gameblog
- A great project from RPG Blog II – Vote For The Top 25 RPGs of All Time! – though there is no point because everyone knows that Aftermath! is the great system ever!
- Important information for any player from Nameless Kingdom, How to: Calculate Probability With Multiple Dice
- Chgowiz’s Old Guy RPG makes a great point with We don’t need no stinkin’ rules or mechanics!
- Are you feeling lucky punk? Then enter A Butterfly Dreaming’s Contest to Win an Open Game Table Anthology where as The Dwarf and the Basilisk has some Open Game Table Musings
- 10 reasons to play games at the table from Mad Brew Labs
- Are You Playing Too Fast? is the question posed by Capturing Fantasy
- Bard of the Valiant has news of Open D6 – Customizable Rulebooks
- A new blog (well new to me) Robot Viking is interested in The Return of Dark Sun?
- Game Cryer has a good analysis of Dungeon A Day.com but RetroRoleplaying has news that Megadungeon.net Available
- Dungeon construction: ordnance gets Fame & Fortune excited.
- Tenletter are redesigning a character class – Awesome begins with ‘M’ and ends in ‘onk’
- And a suitable end note. Pen and Portal has a newish player talking about the The Fear of Death in D&D
Good to see so many great posts amid all this stupidity. Kudos to you for filtering them out!
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Thanks for the linkback! 😉
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Wow, I wouldn’t have thought that anything but WotC’s stupidity and David’s passing were blogged about. Thanks picking out these gems.
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Thanks for that link! I was so alarmed by how many people didn’t realize that(Bell curve) happened!
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