Hey! We made it! We topped the 300 RSS subcribers milestone!
I say we, because while I write the site’s content, it really only runs as smoothly with Graham’s technical assistance (whose apparently saving the internet one site at a time) and all of your participation as readers, Stumblers and Commenters.
Woot! I’ve got my 300 minions! Hoo-HA!
Thanks everyone!
I’m also sitting on a completed Trope post about doing big reveals in a RPG campaign. It’s scheduled to come up at 20h00 tonight. I think I did a good job with it and I hope it will give you ideas.
The judging of the 10 word adventure contest is progressing. All 3 judges settled on picking our personal top 5 in each of the 3 categories (Best Adventure Hook, Funniest Entry and Best Pop/Geek reference) and we’ll debate them once we are all done choosing. We’re waiting on the results of the last judge and we’ll get to the arguing 
Oh and before I leave, while backtracking all the contest entry’s blogs and website, I discovered Max’s blog who posted the absolute best D&D 4e Monster Generator.
I’m printing it here without the author’s permission, only to show you how brilliant the guy is… GO READ HIS BLOG!
One of the highly touted aspects of the new edition of D&D is the ease with which DMs will be able to create and customize monsters to challenge their players. In fact, I just learned the DMs will be able build monsters on the fly, using just a few rolls of a trusty twenty-sider:
1 black blade brute 2 blood blood creeper 3 bone bond/bound delver 4 death claw fiend 5 demon cloak/cloaked filcher 6 doom doom foamer 7 dread fang gnasher 8 flame fiend horde/hordling 9 ghost fire howler 10 grim gaunt hulk 11 ice haunt lasher 12 iron horn leaper 13 night maw racer 14 poison rake reaver 15 razor scale ripper 16 spell spike scourge 17 stone tusk sneak 18 storm warp/warped swarm 19 thunder wing titan 20 wind wrack wurm With attacks and abilities built right into the name, spelled out in ubiquitous damned adjectival compound nouns, a DM need only decide the creature’s level range and role, and let ‘er rip.
I made me a Thunder Fang Howler… a critter that has a poisonous bite that deals continuous electricity damage and can deal electricity damage and push opponents with it’s Thunder Howl Breath weapon!
See ya later!
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Write a Comment»That is a cool generator– thanks for pointing it (and the whole blog) out.
Congrats on the milestone. Anyway of knowing which RSS subscriber I am?
So, how’d an Ice Fire Foamer work?
@ScottM: Max’s blog is part of a group of Retro-gaming sites that do some very interesting stuff.
@Tangent128: I don’t actually have a ‘list’ of subscriber’ since you’ve been around for quite some time I’d say you were in the first 30s.
As for your monster I’d say it’s an elemental whose’s Ice and Fire interface creates a melting foam that surrounds the monster and causes opponents to be slowed while it slams you with a Fire attack with a followup Cold slam attack
Hey this is fun! Let’s make more!
The generator is quite amusing.
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Thanks for the link, Philippe-Antoine (P-A? Phil/ippe? Chatty? D’you have a preference?) Your monster descriptions have me chuckling!
I wrote that as satire, not of monster mechanics but of naming style, but it’s even better if people actually put it to use! Sprinkle lightly with descriptors like blast, laser, neutron, droid, and mutant and it should work for SF/post-apocalypse games too…
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“Poison Claw Ripper”- sure, you could just make up some monster with venomous pincers that tears victims apart.
Alternatively, parse that differently: it tears apart claws, and is poison- making it some variety of inedible starfish.
Oh, if your count is from that Feedburner box I just noticed, then I’m not counted in that 300- I subscribe to the feed directly.
Tangent128 - No you don’t.
Every link to the RSS feed is forwarded to feedburner via a wordpress plugin. Check one of the article links (click the title of the article) in your RSS reader next time. It should begin with feedburner.com
You’re included in that total.
@Max: Call me Phil or Chatty, it’s shorter.
It was a nice exercise and like many 30 something nostalgia-ridden gamers I like tables like that!
@Tangent128: You have to start playing RPGs!