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Critical Hits is a magazine-style blog featuring news, reviews, and columns about the world of gaming, focusing on roleplaying games and tabletop (board, card, mini) games. Critical Hits has been in operation since 2005, is the home of over 3,000 posts, and has won multiple awards including the 2011 Gold Ennie Award for Best Blog. Welcome and may you always roll a crit when you need it.

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Interview: Bill “Dungeon Bastard” Cavalier on “The World’s Worst Dungeon Crawl”

May 15, 2013 By 1 Comment

Here at Critical Hits, we’ve been following the advice of Bill Cavalier, Adventure Coach AKA “The Dungeon Bastard” for some time now. At first it was because we mistook him for someone else entirely, but we grew to value his advice on WINNING Dungeons & Dragons after years of treating it as a collaborative activity [...]

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Of Tables and Games: What I’m Playing Now

May 12, 2013 By 6 Comments

Before I start, a little Chatty update: Winter and Spring have been my crazy freelancer months for a  few years now. I’m knee-deep in pushing the Cortex Plus Hacker’s Guide to layout. Dave and I released the preview version of the Fantasy Heroic Roleplaying game to backers and the response has been both positive and [...]

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Get Out Of My Dreams, Get Into My TARDIS

May 7, 2013 By 2 Comments

I recently finished BioShock Infinite. I know an army of people who loved everything about this game, especially the story. I enjoyed it, but the ending left me a little flat. I’m not going to discuss the details here other than to say it got all wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey (well, sort of) and I found myself [...]

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