Just a reminder that today is the official holiday of celebrating GMs! As usual, various publishers are having sales to celebrate (which tends to mean the GM spends more money, not less) but it seems there are fewer sales this year, possibly due to the pre-4e holding pattern.
Regardless, either today or the next time [...]

Danny and I are back from the D&D XP. I decided not to pay for the flaky hotel wi-fi to be able to do updates from the show floor. We played three games today: the first Living Forgotten Realms adventure,”Escape from Sembia” (which essentially ended in the second encounter as a TPK), press dungeon delve [...]

This afternoon Dave and I got to play in the 4th Edition Dungeon Delve, which is a group of about 10 tables set up with various dungeons pre-set that the RPGA staff (and some occasional Wizards employees) were kind enough to run. It was meant to be just hack & slash, get through the [...]

Here’s where we’ll post links to the different articles for the D&D XP.

Seminar
Photo Set on Flickr
Dungeon Delve Sheets (Fighter, Wizard, Paladin)
Interview with Sara Girard and Rob Heinsoo
Interview with Andy Collins and Scott Rouse (Part 1) (Part 2)
Preview mini from “Against the Giants” set
Stats for some monsters from Dungeons of Dread
Gnoll pages from Monster Manual [...]

This is just a dump of my notes from the Seminar, which I’ll be editing when I get a chance!
 
9:38- Laptop set up in the Potomac room. The room is maybe ¾ capacity, in a fairly inefficient banquet table format.
9:40- Danny returns with “What you need to know about D&D 4th edition at D&D [...]

One more significant preview of 4e D&D has been released before a lot more is given away at the D&D Experience. The entire Rogue class has been posted for your amusement/derision.
Just a few things that stood out to me:

No more rolling for hit points. You get a fixed amount at first level, and every level [...]

This is a pretty big deal.
To back up a second… Games Workshop has recently been working on consolidating their product line down to their core, while expanding their line of retail shops. This means they were focusing their efforts on selling Warhammer Fantasy Battles, Warhammer 40k, and Lord of the Rings. However, they did set [...]

Around these parts, Portal has seen a slight insurgence, thanks to me lending Bartoneus and Sucilaria The Orange Box. I actually had to get them to shut it down at a party last Saturday so that I could feed my Rock Band addiction and caterwaul through my rendition of Ballroom Blitz. This actually allowed [...]

One day, a week or two ago, I came across this story about images sent back from the Mars Spirit Rover.  What you see to the right is a small version of a panorama taken at a crater on Mars from this mission, and you can see a super high quality version at Nasa’s site [...]