From the monthly archives:

February 2007

62%?!? Flawed.

by Bob

How White and Nerdy Are You?

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How Disappointing.

by Bob

Aw, Man. I always suspected it. That’s why I’ve been buying all new dice – in sets – and keeping them in their tubes.

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Want WotC PDFs? Go visit RPGNow. Now.

by Bob

The fellows over at enworld posted this today. WotC is offering 30% off all of their PDFs. Shop by way of enworld, since I don’t have an affiliate account that you can patronize. I get nothing for it, other than having satisfied readers. Enworld’s Main Site WotC Category at Enworld’s RPGNow site

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In case you missed it.

by Bob

TSR/WotC has never had a great deal of success with ancillary games connected to the Dungeons and Dragons line. Let’s face it, The Great Khan Game didn’t exactly do gangbusters, and neither did Dragon Dice. Even Spellfire died out pretty quickly, though that was mainly due to mismanagement. With the success of Three Dragon Ante, Wizards [...]

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Dude, I don’t think I’m doing this right

by Bob

So, I went off yesterday on my other blog about the first amendment, it seems only fitting that I should look at the bill of rights here, too. Look at this. So, I’ve been defending D&D for years against the well-intentioned but poorly-informed evangelical criticisms. Turns out I’ve been wrong. Dungeons and Dragons is an integral [...]

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How could I have missed THIS?

by Bob

Grumble/Complain. From the D&D 3.5 FAQ, updated 2/22/07: “Can a character belong to more than one “team” for the purpose of gaining teamwork benefits (Player’s Handbook II, 157)? No, otherwise the limit of one teamwork benefit per 4 HD of the lowest-level member of the team would be meaningless.” See, this bugs me. As I’ve [...]

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Why Don’t I like Eberron?

by Bob

In some ways, it sucks to be me. For years, D&D has been mainly divided up into two different product lines: Dungeons and Dragons, and the Forgotten Realms. As a lover of Realmslore, I could pick up a WotC product at any time and be, at least in terms of setting, pretty happy. Eberron changed [...]

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I’m a helper!

by Bob

Well, I think the hobby has finally made the big time of geekdom. We’ve entered the 90s. To be sure, there are some (not all, of course, but an occasionally vocal minority) among the online MMORPG crowd that snicker at us pen-and-paper Dungeons and Dragons players. What a backwards way to play a game – [...]

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Winter Fantasy, um, er, DDXP is over and guess WHAT?

by Bob

NO 4th edition announcement. Some interesting tidbits from the guys at Dungeons and Dragons R&D. Among them: 2006 was the biggest Dungeons & Dragons year EVAR in terms of sales. A replacement for E-tools is not on their priority list. Minis is the new hotness (duh!) 2007 will see a new Tavern Brawl dice game [...]

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