The fourth part of the D&D Carnival – This time focusing on it the game’s future. “On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero” The simple truth is that D&D, the product and the brand,
Tag: WotC

D&D 3.5 Resurgent?
There is no doubt that WotC wants to kill off D&D 3.5. Nothing would please them more than to have everyone chuck their old books in the bin and buy every 4e product they can. There is nothing wrong with
Amazon Unfail and the Power of Mobs
Amazon seems to be recovering from their large fail over the weekend (see Amazon Fail). The root cause of the problem (according to Amazon) was a mistake by a French employee who incorrectly updated some 50,000 items in the global
A Bucket, A Bucket, My Kingdom for a Bucket
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
What if 4e was Free?
So you are the Head of D&D at Wizards. Fourth edition has not been the massive success that was hoped for with many fans sticking to 3.5 or worse, going to 4e and switching back. D&D Insider was a year
Strap Yourself into the Bucket Seats and Hang On
As we bring you this week’s bumper bucket of blogging. 4e continues to cause contention as Unnatural 20 claims Skill Challenges, Unnecessary and Problematic and Living Dice wants to Bring Back Tripping in 4th Edition! but Uncle Bear argues System
DnD News – A Little Bit Suspect
Wizards have launched a D&D newsletter and is encouraging fans to sign-up for it. It has some strange set-up where you can be a party leader, and invite other people to join, or a henchman, someone who was invited to
A Finger-Licking Good Bucket of Links
There has been some top class blogging this week with analysis, review and comment on 4e, retro-gaming, WotC and more. All of which can be found in this week’s bucket. Top Ten D&D Monsters from The Dwarf & The Basilisk
5 Gallon Bucket
The biggest round up of the best blogging this week and it has a lot of good & bad news for Wizards of the Coast. Questing GM has the latest PDFs and class news in the Word of Wizards. Meanwhile
Wizards Shutdown Web Site
Wizards have sent a Cease & Desist order to Emass-web.com and the site now reads I’m sorry to inform you that this site is no more. Wizards of the Coast asked me to take it down, and I complied. I’m