This week I was back behind the DM’s screen. We had a full party of six, three players using the pre-generated characters – Barcan, Phye and Castri – while the other three players brought their own PCs – the familiar archer Ranger (who died last week), the Human Warlord and a new Thri-kreen…

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D&D Encounters Dark Sun (Week 13) from Dungeon's Master

Blogging TactiCon from Being an Online Dungeon Master

August is GenCon month in the RPG world.  I’m jealous, of course – I live in Colorado and was not able to make it to Indianapolis for the convention. (Side note: The company I work for does have a big presence in Indy, and I’m thinking about seeing if I can get them to send

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Gamma World Unboxed from Gaming Brouhaha » RPG

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What’s In Your Wallet? from Mike's D&D Blog

Recently a friend shared a story where he tried to explain 3.5 after playing 4e for awhile. I don’t remember the exact quote, but he was describing how armor weight interplays with other gear weight (in non-linear fashion) when determining encumbrance for determining armor check penalty and…

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The Kübler-Ross Stages of Grief, D&D Encounters, and Me from Christian Lindke's Cinerati

Those of you who read this blog, may have noticed that I devoted two posts last week to my feelings about the D&D Encounters program.

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Shifting Gears, or Altering the Gravitas from Life and Times of a Philippine Gamer

After running a string of relatively high concept games which deal with heavier themes, I think it’s about time that I take a break from the super-serious stuff and come up for air.  One thing I’ve learned to avoid burnout is to switch gears now and then, taking a moment to break out of…

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Poker Face: Even DMs Make Bluff Checks from My Girlfriend is a DM

I’ve never acquired a liking for poker. I’ve tried my hand at it once or twice, but never really had much fun at it. The use of bluffing as a core mechanic for a game dependent on numbers seemed strange to me

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Dungeons & Flagons: Alcohol Rules for Dungeons & Dragons 4e from At Will

There have not been many hard rules for actually getting drunk. Gygax had rules for intoxication back in the 1st Edition Dungeon Master's Guide, but these were excised in the more family-friendly years of 2nd Edition. This article aims to restoring the drunkenness to D&D, easy to remember and…

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The Week in D&D Hardcore: September 3, 2010 from Save Versus Death

Week in Review I’ve Been Cheating on You With Another Blog: An explanation on why I haven’t called in so long. To make it up, I made you some original content – a high-quality papercraft obelisk! Voting began this week for Kobold Quarterly’s King of the Monsters 2 contest.…

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The Challenge Of Writing Skill Challenges from Dungeon's Master

While attending GenCon this year I had a eureka moment. Or to be more precise, the sky parted, a brilliant ray of light shone down, I turned to Ameron and said, “We’re already doing that!” This was in response to almost every hand in the room going up in the air when Bill Slavicsek asked

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Wizards Watch: Of Podcasts & Unearthed Arcana from NEUROGLYPH Games

“Let’s talk of graves and worms and epitaphs…” ~ Richard II (Shakespeare, The Life and Death of Richard II {Act III, Scene 2}) This week started out as a fairly lackluster one in the realm of content from the official Wizards of the Coast site.  It is somewhat understandable, what with the…

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Pero fue este martes cuando WotC colgó en su página web el anuncio oficial del producto, haciendo realidad el sueño de muchos.

El nuevo Gamma World está firmado por Richard Baker y Bruce R. Cordell, y se publicará en formato caja, con un manual de 160 páginas, 2 láminas troqueladas de marcadores o tokens para monstruos y personajes, 2 mapas a doble cara para los combates, cartas de poderes (semejantes a las publicadas para DnD) y una baraja de cartas de poderes mutantes.
Utilizará el sistema de DnD 4, aunque no serán necesarios otros manuales o accesorios ajenos a los de la caja.

Gamma World fue un juego postapocalíptico publicado por TSR en 1978, basado en gran medida en otro juego, Metamorphosis Alpha, de James M. Ward, quien también firmó el propio GW. Aunque desde entonces se han publicado seis ediciones (la de WotC será la séptima) y existen diferencias entre ellas, todas mantienen en común la inexistencia de gobiernos a nivel superior, es decir, no existen naciones; podríamos decir que las únicas administraciones tendrían nivel de pueblo o aldea.
Una de las características que siempre llamó la atención de este juego fueron los mutantes y sus poderes.

El precio inicial de venta será de 40$ y su salida está prevista para el próximo 19 de octubre.