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Chatty’s Review: D&D 4e’s Keep on the Shadowfell

May 14, 2008 – 7:39 pm

As mentioned this morning, I was able to read a copy of D&D’s 1st 4e adventure, Keep on the Shadowfell, thanks to ZeStuff.
Now it’s time for the review! Hurrah!
I’ll take the spoiler-free approach (though I may slip a bit in places) as I guess that a lot of readers will want to play it [...]

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Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: The Truman Mirror Tomato Surprise!

May 13, 2008 – 8:51 pm

This is a series that explores Tropes and tries to apply them in RPGs. Have a look here, I wrote over 20 of these so far.
So Sorry for the double feed, something happened when I posted this the 1st time and 1/2 the text was eaten!
One of the things I’ve seen GMs struggle with [...]

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Ods and Ends, part Deux

May 13, 2008 – 7:36 am

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 [...]

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Monte Cook Un-Retires and Joins Pathfinder RPG team.

May 12, 2008 – 6:01 pm

Well not so much out of retirement as he’s becoming a rules consultant for the Pathfinder RPG.
What was it you said about Paizo NOT being a Google-emulate?

Monte Cook Joins the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game™ Team
Co-creator of 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons® to act as Rules Consultant
Paizo Publishing®, LLC today announced that Monte Cook, the [...]

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Ding! The Stew is Ready. Hope You Like Gnomes.

May 12, 2008 – 7:13 am

Have a look at the newest GM-focused blog.
It’s Gnome Stew and it just launched.
I really liked the Short Sessions: How to Cope by Walt Icantspellhislastnamejustnow as it plays directly in our gaming challenges.
I wish a great big welcome to the GnomeGMs:

Martin Ralya
John Arcadian (yay!)
Patrick Benson
Walt Ciechanowski (I was just kidding, no I’m not I can’t [...]

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