Inn Fighting and Three Dragon Ante

These are two games put out by WOTC. Three Dragon Ante is a card game and Inn Fighting is a card/dice game. They are both supposed to have the advantage of extensible rules that allow playing them in character during a Dungeons and Dragons game. I’ve had Three...

Talkin ‘Bout Nobis!

I just posted an interview with the team behind Nobis over on Planewalker.com. I really like their debut product a lot and I am also thrilled to see a company doing new and quality work in the v. 3.5 rules. Their approach to firearms is now being adopted outright as...

Happy 5th Anniversary Yottaquest!

Last week I hitched a ride over to one of the local game stores, Yottaquest, in order to check it out. A solid variety of card and board games was complemented by something I don’t often see outside of Amazon: an extensive range of RPGs including editions of DND...

John McCain Just Rolled A Crit! A Natural One, That Is…

Via Kevin Poulsen on Wired’s Threat Level: Confronting questions about whether John McCain stole an inspiring POW story from the autobiography of a former Soviet prisoner, a campaign spokesman threw out this melee attack against a much-maligned geek pastime:...

Shattered Fractine Down

Imagine my horror when I discovered today that The Shattered Fractine is down, and with a domain expired notice yet. An amazing site with a nicely hypertexted collection of Spelljammer monsters converted to 3.x. I used it constantly, and links to it appear in my House...

The History of Regdar

A rumination on race and gender in iconic Dungeons and Dragons art where Monte Cook tells of the insurrection against the marketing people and the sudden appearance of yet another white, male, human fighter. Check it out, its great reading from one of the True Pros of...