Friday, August 15th, 2008
Here are some great articles that I have over the past few months. I hope you find them as enjoyable and interesting as I have.
Greywulf’s Lair – If I was the King of Wizards
Greywolf list many of the problems he sees with D&D 4 Edition, the minis and Wizards of the Coast in General. I can’t help but to agree with each one. It is a great read no matter what you think about 4th Edition
The Geek Gazette – 4e is perfect! Well, except for the mistakes…While at it go check out the Geek Gazette who gave us a response to Greywulf’s post and expanded upon it
SciFi Wire – Wire Cracks Stargate Command
For those of you who are fans of Stargate, War Games, Jeremiah as well as many other shows this may be an interesting article for you because it is all about the actual Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Base.
Critical Hits – Forget OD&D and AD&D: Play DD&D
This is an old post but it is definately worth looking at; especially if you are like me and love you some alcohol because it is a D&D Drinking Game which is going to be play tested at GenCon this weekend. (they actually played it at least once so far)
Gnome Stew – Stat generation
An article about a new system that will even out your player stat scores a little bit. I know I am going to try it out.
Greywulf’s Lair – The value of Dungeons & Dragons
Greywulf gives us solid economic reasons as why we should all play D&D (and other RPGs in general)
Stupid Ranger – How to move from DM to Player Character…
Dante tells us DMs who to go back to being just a PC. Something that I know from personal experience is a hard transition.
Dries Buytaert – PHP is dead … long live PHP!
As many of you have probably heard by now I have been a wannabe web developer since 1997. PHP is a web development language I have been using liek many others, professional and amatuers alike since 1999. If you read any blogs besides this one you will notice many of the pages end with .php instead of .html (or htm). That because it is one (if not THE) most popular scripting language of the web. This is an interesting article on it the current version of the language and why people (mainly servers) are not transitioning to it even though it has been out for over 2 (3?) years.
Greg’s Blog – So Many Untapped PHP Features
This article is related to the above one with some additional information
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
I decided it was a good idea to post some links to some things I have seen and found interesting on the past few days. I don’t think I am going to make this a weekly thing like many other sites do, but who knows. Anyways, here are some cool links for you.
DDI
Throughout the marketing campaign used by Wizards of the Coast they have been pushing DDI (Dungeon and Dragons Insider) and said it would be out and available to use when 4th Edition came out. Well, let’s face it. That didn’t happen. However today (well yesterday technically I guess) part of DDI has become available, in a limited fashion at least. The Online Rules Compendium is up. I gave it a quick test drive, but wasn’t impressed, however when more supplements come out and are added I think it will be more useful. Go give it a try by clicking here and then let us all know how it went by leaving a comment about it here
HOT GIRL – Grace Park!
If you are anything like me you are a fan of Battlestar Galactica. Continuing along that path if you are like me you think the actress who plays Boomer/Athena/Skinjob Cylon #8 is really hot. Well we aren’t the only ones. Complex Magazine made her the cover girl and has an interview with her and several of the pictures taken of her on their website, as well as a video. Damn she hot. It brings a whole new use to the term “Frack Me”
What are you cooking for dinner? Why Gnome Stew of course
Gnome Stew is a great RPG blog from the creators of the now defunct Treasure Tables. It has multiple posters which means there are always plenty of articles. Just today they posted an article about using Defensive Rolls for a 3.5 D&D game as well as announced their new forums for GMs called You Meet in a Tavern.
One Line NPC for prizes
Chatty at Musings of a Chatty DM has a contest going on where you come up with an NPC in only one line. There are multiple prizes. SO give it a whirl and win some prizes
It’s Villainous
Yax over at dungeonmastering.com (yes the site run by a Red Dragon) had a great article on Uber-Villans for your D&D campaign. And yesterday’s Sunday quiz is testing your knowledge of the many different versions of D&D from the 1973 Basic D&D all the way through this month release of 4th Edition. So go and see how knowledgeable you are.
Earth, Wind, Fire and Water
An old series of articles from RPG Thoughts, but these articles on using Elementals in your RPG are really good and worth reading. They are called Elemental elementals and Elemental Elementals part 2 – “Burned to the ground”. Good job Maikl
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