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I thought the banter at last night's D&D game was pretty crude. Then I read today's Order of the Stick.

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0710.html

At last night's D&D game, we found out that one of us had Polymorph several times a day. Suddenly, the game turned into Rusty and Co..

Did I... forget about a D&D game last Saturday?

I called it! Minotaurs in the player's handbook.


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Why am I compelled to combine Fate with D&D4e? I suppose there are a few similarities. Neither system is what you would call "rules light," and both have a refreshing disdain for "realism." But the way two games use that crunch could not be further apart. D&D revels in its wargame roots more than ever before. Fate is cutting edge in the way it ( Read more... )

When the first previews came out, I surprised by how much Wizards of the Coast was willing to change. As a game design junkie, I loved some of the changes, like saving throws turning into defense types. But outside of a pure game-design point of view, there were changes I didn't understand, like dragonborn as a core PC race.

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The best test of a role-playing game is how well it handles ambiguous situations and borderline cases ( Read more... )

No game on the 14th on account of valentine's day. But the day after, the Greater Memphis D&D group is hosting a learn 4e thing at the Mid-South Game Center ( Read more... )

Revenge, not sex ( Read more... )