Okay, not a patch, but people make the DnD = MMORPG comparison so much, I figured one more tired joke
Category: Links & Resources
Because I never really lose my interest in this game.
The Interactive Way To Go
Oh, the Humanity (map)
Ready for your next game of surrealist dream warriors.
This is awesome.
Go here, type in your name, and watch it morph into a weapon.
Design Challenge: a world without spiders
The premise: A GM is starting up a new game, and wants to have a world with no spiders. Result:
DnD “DM” Reference Screen
In Flash, hosted here, and thus accessible anywhere. Because I am a nerd with a few minutes free time.
DnD errata
*WotC’s official D&D 4e errata *enworld’s unofficial D&D 4e errata
How did they know?
Waiting in my Inbox, early this morning… Not quite the 60% discount is was on preorder, but the box set
OM Freakin’ G: The DnD 4.0 game with the seven-year old got even more awesome.
You haven’t been keeping up with the exploits of D and his dad Tony? Why on earth not? Go here.
Learn about DnD 4.0 with some cool, funny guys.
Okay, so here’s what happened. Tycho and Gabriel from Penny Arcade, plus Scott Kurtz from PvP, got together with one
For the nerd on your Father’s Day list
Dungeons and Dragons, 4th Edition. I’m sorry, I’m just hearing too much good stuff about it. The indie roleplaying community
Ding: the sound of PROGRESS!
MP3 sound files of the “level-up ding” from 40 different online games. Coming soon as a ringtone to a phone
Sillof’s Workshop: Reimagining your Childhood
I’m not sure who this mad, mad genius is, but I can’t argue with the results. Boing Boing linked to
Dragonlance Animated Movie: first one released in a few days.
Holy crap. Holy CRAP. Okay, the animation isn’t great, but the voices are pretty good. Why am I so excited?
So Conflicted
The Zombie Fluxx card games combines a great love and a great hate of mine. Love: Zombies. Man, I likes
[SotC/Fate] A Different Take on Phases
From one of the game’s author’s a great tweak to the phases in SotC character generation to move away from
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Completely. Awesome.
Jonathan Coulton is full of Awesome
Don’t believe me? Peruse the Jonathan Coulton – Listening Suggestions. I’m going to buy, like… everything on his site. So
Pretty much applies to any game
Penny Arcade! – The Protip
Granted, I don’t actually digress about PHP…
DM of the Rings XIV:Boring Distractions D&D is a sort of simulation. A simulation of living in a fantasy world
So I can clear it out of my email/reminder folder
Theory From the Closet: Interview with Fred Hicks This is a really good, fairly long interview. Clyde does some really
When you know the indie designers are doing something right
“Story Game” (400 page, hard-bound, beautiful, hard-crunch, sci-fi blaster, smacking) Burning Empires won Origins’ RPG of the year award, beating
Go! (An excellent tutorial)
Click To Play
Their stupid, epheme-hip baby names are your NPCs monikers!
Via ***Dave, Unique, Unusual, and invented names of 2007 & 2008 may make you laugh out loud at nine out
“You’re a player, too.”
Story Games for Everybody – I’m not enjoying running Primetime Adventures. I’ve run PtA a couple of times and played
So. Much. Fun.
RPG Motivational Posters: all 400 of them.
Bang bang bang
I’ve talked (a lot) in the past about running games that are essentially built on nothing but Bangs (or as
Wierd internet gestalt
So, I was at the Forge forum, and reading down the forum thread: [Forge Midwest]Interview with Ron Edwards, and promised
More SotC Stuff
Spirit of the Century reference sheets. Most excellent.
SotC Hack
John Harper (author of Agon) is playing in a Spirit of the Century game and hacking in some things that