I’m not writing much this weekend, I’m not apologizing, I’m just saying… 🙂 I’m home with the kids while wifey’s doing some consulting work in the Great North, she’ll be back on Monday. I don’t have a lot of creative juices once the wee ones are in bed… and I made the mistake of buying […]
Archives for November 2007
The Perfect Game
I was talking to a fellow designer a few weeks back, and we were discussing the designing a game for a specific audience. While we both agreed that it’s very important when marketing to someone, he didn’t think it was as important when designing. I felt that in any kind of creative design, it’s important […]
Critical Hits Gift Guide 2007
Starting next week, we’ll start putting our annual gift guide up. The categories will be different than last year, since most of what we covered last year hasn’t really changed. I also highly recommend checking them out again: DVD’s (one of the most comprehensive articles I’ve ever written) T-Shirts Games Everything Else If you have […]
The Overlord's bid for Superstar status!
Man, the suspense is killing me! When I first learned about Paizo’s American Idol-inspired RPG Superstar contest, I was intrigued but not that interested. While I have a certain knack for words and things D&D as well as non-professional experience in both department, being a RPG designer/writer was never seriously on my radar (As mentioned […]
Mini-Trope: The Bad, The Killer and the Evil.
So far I have been doing a lot of posts about DMing tropes, but what about tropes on DMing? (This post is very satirical. If anyone is offended by this… well let’s just say I’d rather not play in your game…) When you ask RPG-savvy people to describe a cliché (or a trope) about DMs, […]
DM Chronicles, Session 6: Perfectly Paced Action Crunch! (Part 2)
Image Source: Monster Manual IV, Wizards of the Coast, Artist: Jim Nelson In which ChattyDM’s players find all kinds of trouble and manage to always come out on top. See part 1 here. The players entered deeper in the tomb’s second level, finding themselves in a large “T” shaped room. It featured 2 more stone-doors-with-levers […]
Micro-Crunch: I knew Mike Mearls was a Crunch Overlord!
As you may know, Martin Rayla of Treasure Table is taking a well deserved month off from writing his daily blog. He’s now slaving away doing NaNoWriMo, writing about whatever it is DMs write about (I suspect Ninjas and Pirates, but that’s just me). During that time he’s reposting some of his best stuff from […]
DM Chronicles, Session 6: Perfectly Paced Action Crunch! (Part 1)
Previously in Phil’s game: The heroes struck a deal with the Keepers of the Veil to investigate where the plant-like humanoids, created by the drug Green Welcome, were headed in Ptolus’ Necropolis. Said plant-like beings, called Children of Sehan, were tracked to an ancient funeral mound and engaged. Two were slain, diffcultly, one remains, inside […]
Bonus YouTube: Watchmen Babies- V for Vacation
Until Fox pulls it from YouTube, here’s the appearance of Alan Moore, Art Spiegelman, and Dan Clowes on The Simpsons. Edit- they pulled it! You can watch the episode over at Fox’s site if you’re willing to install their movie plugin, reboot, then view it again. Boo on Fox… let us watch our clips on […]
A fey's journal: Under Ptolus' Necropolis (estimated time: noon)
Image Source: Art from Song of Serenity (Magic the Gathering, Exodus, Wizards of the Coast), Copyright 2005 Tony DiTerlizzi (Check his site!), used with the artists’ permission. Here is Yan’s latest player log detailing last Friday’s tomb crawling. Enjoy! I take a few minutes to write this as we are discussing our next course of […]
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