New for EN World Subscribers Last week, the 4E version of War of the Burning Sky #5: Mission to the Monastery of Two Winds was added to the subscriber download area . Due to an inexplicably slow internet connection, I wasn't able to add the D&D 3.5 version of that adventure until today.

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D&D / RPG News for Monday, 12 July, 2010

Morrus attempts to update his PHB

As an experiment, I decided to "update" my PHB.

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D&D / RPG News for Wednesday, 14 July, 2010

Explore ENnie-nominated Products at RPGNow RPGNow and Drive-thru–RPG are one of this year's ENnies sponsors.

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2010 ENnies Voting Has Begun!

2010 ENnies Voting Has Begun! The voting booth for the 2010 Gen Con EN World RPG Awards is now open! Voting closes at midnight, July 25th. The winners will be announced at the 2010 awards ceremony Friday, August 4th at the Westin Hotel Grand Ballroom at Gen Con Indy.

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Over this past Memorial Day weekend my gaming group and I got together for a barbecue and some Dungeons & Dragons.  Normally the games are at my and my fiancé’s place, but with spring and summer here the weather has been nothing short of amazingly perfect.  This last week we have had…

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BBQ and D&D from Stargazer's World

D&D Encounters (Week 12) from Dungeon's Master

After 12 weeks the adventure came to a thrilling conclusion. The PCs finally came face-to-face with Xeres. But he wasn’t alone

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Oh, the Agony! (Dark Sun Style) from Thieves' Cant

I’m stung by the swirling sands of Dark Sun once more. Beyond a shadow of a doubt, Athas has been my favorite stomping ground for D&D since I first started rolling die. Now as WotC gears up for the big 4e version of Dark Sun, I hear the siren’s call once more beckoning me back to the rugged…

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Minicast Ep. 9 now available from www. Newbie DM .com

There’s a new minicast available. My guest is Mike Shea from the SlyFlourish blog. Together, we try to answer a question about marks in 4e D&D. The minicast can be found at its feed, its own page, or via itunes.

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Review: “The Perilous Secrets of Wilford Manor” from Critical Hits » RPG

The Perilous Secrets of Wilford Manor is a PDF–only adventure from Neuroglyph Games for 1st—3rd level Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition characters.

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For the Cat from Continuing Clockwise

“The first pancake is for the cat.” I first heard this saying from a podcasting friend of mine as he described his initial production effort. It was a new format for him, with a new team and new equipment. While he wasn’t especially pleased with the outcome, he also wasn’t that disappointed or…

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D&D Encounters: Final Battle from StupidRanger.com » rpgbloggers

Attention: Spoilers included! If you haven’t played your last session of Encounters yet, you may want to come back later! In-Character Recap Brief summation for those who haven’t been playing along at home.

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The Kobold Guide to Game Design Volume III is Here! from Kobold Quarterly Magazine: Monsters and Magic for D&D Gamers

“As a designer, your work enables new experiences in play for others. If you are doing it exceptionally well, you are inventing new game genres and new play styles; that is, entirely new methods, styles, and systems of play

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Free Stuff Friday: Dungeons & Dragons from Stargazer's World

It’s Friday and it’s time to give you some more free stuff! This weeks Free Stuff is: Dungeons & Dragons. I know what your thinking. “Free Dungeons & Dragons

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Review of Player’s Strategy Guide by Wizards of the Coast from NEUROGLYPH Games

“Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.” ~ Sun Tzu (The Art of War, 6th Century BC) I was a little surprised when one of my most experienced Players, someone I have been playing D&D with since the early 90s, showed up to our latest campaign session with a copy…

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Rules Tweak #1 – Hook ‘em from Thieves' Cant

So continuing the Dark Sun theme . .

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Review: The Outcast (A Dark Sun Novel) from Dungeon's Master

The Outcast (Tribe of One, book I) Simon Hawke A Dark Sun novel I’ve read over a hundred Forgotten Realms novels, a dozen Ravenloft novels and all of the Eberron novels, but this was my first Dark Sun novel.

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How many campaigns have you played where the DM started the campaign by stating “The party is in a tavern and an old man walks up to you with a job offer.” Now my normal response is “What’s the name of the tavern?” To which most DMs respond it doesn’t matter. The…

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Being Gentle for Other People’s First Time from My Girlfriend is a DM

Our apologies to our readers for the lack of posts in the past few weeks. I’ve recently re-entered the world of the working, putting in long hours as an ‘emergency associate editor’ for a magazine. That, plus new responsibilities somewhat prevented me from devoting as much time as I’d like to…

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Adventure Hook 016 – The Juggler from DM Samuel's RPG Musings

– ADVENTURE HOOK 016 – The Juggler — Location: Starts in a town (size doesn’t matter) and also takes place at a traveling carnival – Situation: An old man, well known to the townsfolk, has requested that the party accompany him to the traveling carnival.  He wants to see his son give a…

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Hello, I’m an Avengevoker from StupidRanger.com » rpgbloggers

For D&D Encounters, I opted to try out the PHB3 Hybrid character class, mostly for the renown points, but also for a change of pace.  I’ve been playing my Hybrid for 7 weeks now, and I wanted to take a few moments to share my thoughts. Creating my Avengevoker I did a little bit of..

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Hidden Kingdom Module Devblog: Encounter Design from The Spirits of Eden » RPG

One of the more important parts of writing a 4e module are the encounters. Not just combat encounters, but anything you consider significant enough to give XP to the PCs in the adventure

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D&D Encounters (Week from Dungeon's Master

You know what I’m really enjoying about D&D Encounters? Regardless of how long you’ve played D&D you get to experience a new aspect of D&D every week. This week I experienced my very first TPK

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If You Could Go Back, And Add To 4e… from The Spirits of Eden » RPG

Just thinking idly here, as I’m bored. This isn’t a “whining for the olden days” post, as much as it may sound like it. I’m not an old schooler and you all know this

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4e Rules Compendium? from Tower of the Archmage

Now this is interesting news:It seems WotC is releasing the core rules in a single volume for $19.95. I'm interested in seeing what the "core rules" includes.

Encounter and Initiative Tracking 3.0 from Continuing Clockwise

When I started as an occasional dungeon master in Dungeons and Dragons 4th edition, I used initiative cards to track initiative, defenses and passive perception and insight for players and defenses, initiative and some powers for monsters. Gradually I simplified things (using the plan-do-check-act..

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Review of Three-Dragon Ante: Emperor’s Gambit by Wizards of the Coast from NEUROGLYPH Games

“Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.” ~ Charles Lamb (1832) Last week in my Review of The Plane Above: Secrets of the Astral Sea, I mentioned that when I ordered my copy of this new sourcebook, I also order a deck of the new Three-Dragon Ante: Emperor’s Gambit.  Now I had seen the previous

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Lords of Dust: The End from Dice Monkey

It was the last session for both our Lords of Dust 4e Eberron campaign, and for our gaming group, the Game Knights. As is fitting for such a melancholy occasion, we downed a bit of tequila throughout the night. Bryan was running the game, and as you recall, in the last session, Aldan Vane went with..

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R.I.P. Daggermaster: How the Errata Killed My Character from Dungeon's Master

I’m the first to admit that some character builds are stupidly powerful. These are usually the result of creative players scouring through character builder and looking for loopholes to exploit. I fall squarely into this camp.

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Green Ronin Gets DC! The day I've been hoping for for years has finally come! One copy sold, sight unseen! Green Ronin Publishing announced today that it has signed a licensing agreement with DC Comics and will be releasing the DC ADVENTURES RPG book this August. The game is based on Green Ronin's Mutants & Masterminds, the leading super-hero RPG in the tabletop gaming world

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Monday, 14 April, 2010

Tuesday, 4 May, 2010

Game Night, Chapter Twenty Five (The Assault Begins) The final chapter of Jonny Nexus' hilarious novel, Game Night ! The decision has been taken. The group have embarked on a mission.

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Wednesday, 5 May, 2010

D&D 4th Edition News A lot of major rules updates for the month of May! Some notable changes: Acrobatics: you can now "hop down" 10 feet without falling prone Aid Another: DC has changed to 10 + half level, and comes with a penalty on a failed check You can now Aid Attack and Aid Defense Some major changes to Mounts, to Flying, and to crashing Changes to the way zones and auras overlap and stack Forced movement now takes 3D (vertical) movement into account Changes to numerous powers Changes/clarifications to the Charge action

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Friday, May 7, 2010

D&D 4th Edition News Review of Three-Dragon Ante: Emeror’s Gambit by WotC Check out the new card game said to have been “brought to our world from the taverns and game tables of the Dungeons & Dragons world”! This stand-alone card game can even be role-played within a D&D 4E session – but just how good is your Character at cards? Level Up #3 Goodman Games' magazine now in stores.

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In the course of developing a tabletop RPG and transitioning from doing that to being part of the design team for an MMO, it's a fact of the matter and a job requirement that I play a lot of games. I'm not necessarily playing all of the next big things, however.

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What I’m Playing: Feb ‘10 from Justin Achilli — Blog

New WeeBeeGamers Logo Poll from WeeBeeGamers.com

I’m working on a new logo and mascot for the website. Let me know which one you like or if you have suggestions in the comments. Here are a few new designs:

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Cortex and Unisystem from The Other Side blog

I have a few posts about Cortex coming up and I am actually putting them on hold to put this one up first.Cortex is a system I have talked about off and on. I like it.

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Melee Weapons vs. Armour Class, Take..Oh, Who the Hell Knows? from The Wheel of Samsara

Maybe I'll just make this a continuing feature and create a new Weapon vs. AC Chart every week forever.

Melee Weapon Classes Explained from The Wheel of Samsara

As I mentioned in my previous post , I am avoiding deliberately generic names for the various Weapon Classes because they bore me to tears with their technical connotations and I suspect they make things that much harder for new players.

[Thundarr Thursday] Ancient Armory: Shock Lance from The Savage AfterWorld

Weapon: Shock Lance Damage: 2d6+15, Stun Attacks: 1 Range: N/A Weight: 7 lbs. Battery: N/A (if magical) or Beltpack Charges: N/A (if magical) or 25 The Shock Lance is a magical weapon wielded by the Raiders of the Abyss during their human hunts. It appears like a long slender rod of bone or ivory, covered with deeply carved lines and veins

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Rebuilding Vampire: A Need For Hope/Redemption? from Highmoon's Ponderings » RPG

Something came up in the comments to my previous post, Rebuilding Vampire: Humanity, brought up by Mick Bradley about whether there should be the glimmer of hope/redemption for a vampire. He made this point after I had stated that, in my view of the vampire myth/game, the story of the vampire is one of an

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Elric Explored – Part 5: Magic from Back to (Role-Playing Game) Basics

I think this will be the last in my series before tackling the other side of the formula for my Icosa setting: Cthulhu. Magic in the Elric saga touches back on many of the previous parts of this exploration, but I wanted to give it it's own space to work through some ideas.

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Star Wars: Action Cards from Age of Ravens

A little recovered today, but feeling like I'm going to be coughing for another couple of days. Star Wars for Action CardsSo right now I'm working on putting together a basic set of systems to use with my Action Cards homebrew for a short run Star Wars…

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Bueno, pues el concurso ha llegado a su fin y han seleccionado 10 finalistas, que se publicarán en el blog de la editorial los lunes, martes y miércoles de las próximas cuatro semanas, comenzando por este martes pasado. El primero de los publicados es el Afanc. Recuerdo que son para la cuarta edición de DnD, aunque a petición popular planean adaptarlos a Pathfinder.

Y esta es la lista de los seleccionados junto con sus creadores (el orden es alfabético y así es como se publicarán):

1. Afanc: Jarrod Camiré
2. Echidna: Randy Dorman
3. Grave Linnorm: Phillip Larwood
4. Grievous Wailer: Trevor Gulliver
5. Hive Ghoul: Mario Podeschi
6. Polydoros: Charles Kiley
7. Spark: Adam Daigle
8. Treacle: Crystal Frasier
9. Wendigo: Matthew Cicci
10. Zaglossus: David Posener

De entrada, lo que más me sorprende es que hayan elegido la cuarta edición de DnD para ubicarlo reglamentariamente.
Tomando como base el escenario de Zobeck, de la misma editora, Imperial Gazetteer nos describe las naciones undead de Morgau y Doresh, así como el llamado Imperio de los Ghouls, profusamente descrito en otro manual anteriormente publicado. Lo descrito aquí se refiere tanto a la superficie como debajo de ella.

Luego podemos encontrar lo clásico en estos manuales: una clase para jugadores (el ghoul), alrededor de 30 monstruos nuevos, artilugios y artefactos mágicos relacionados con los muertos vivientes, variantes de monstruos ya existentes, etc.

El libro puede resultar muy útil, y lo curioso es que el Open Grave de WotC, también consagrado a los no muertos, me sigue pareciendo el mejor suplemento oficial publicado para la cuarta edición.
Parece que lo relacionado con los muertos inspira a los diseñadores…

Ahora, con la esperada aparición del libro definitivo de Pathfinder, muchas editoriales planean o preparan productos "Pathfinder Compatible". 
El primero en subirse al carro es Louis Porter Jr. (LPJ Design) en colaboración con Devil's Workshop, quienes han lanzado este fin de semana cuatro productos bajo licencia (dos de ellos gratuitos).
Lógicamente, dada la evolución que supone Pathfinder con respecto a la 3.5/OGL, todo lo que salga de aquí será compatible de manera retroactiva con lo anterior.