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RPG News & "State of EN World" for NYE, Monday, 31 Dec, 2012

Happy New Year, everybody! This is my last news post of 2012. The next one will be on Wednesday, the 2nd of January. Scroll down for a "state of EN World" at the end! Dungeons & Dragons News In these final days of the year, we look back the game's most nightmarish monsters: the undead! So, how did these creatures evolve in the game? Read on to find out! Defenders of Midgard, a player's...

40 Random Encounters

Whenever you’re lacking inspiration or need a last minute encounter in the middle of an adventure, cry. Otherwise, it’s always handy to have some random encounters lying around. I always create my own and usually in a 20-part master list entitled “Random Awesomeness Generator” or similar. In combination with just about any adventure, they can make for a memorable and often bizarre experience...
Boardgame Review: Lords of Waterdeep from WotC
Welcome to Waterdeep, the City of Splendours! A place beloved of many a D&D player who has thrown themselves at the mercy of a Forgotten Realms campaign, it’s little surprise that Wizards of the Coast decided to use it as a backdrop for their first venture into a very different sort of game. Sure, WotC have done plenty over recent years in order to expand the line with the Adventure System...

3G: Greeneville Gaming Group

As you may have guessed, I live in a town called Greeneville, which is nestled in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee. My tabletop gaming group is named after the town. We’ve been going strong for 10 years now, despite our location, and I’m proud that we’ve managed to keep our love of gaming alive and, more importantly, pass it on to the next generation. It was a tough...
New Hobby Game Releases UK
New Releases for 24th/31st December 2012. This is Angus Abranson's regular list. The below will have hit some stores last week and will probably hit the rest this coming week due to the Christmas holidays. For further information please contact your usual suppliers.

RPG News for Friday, 28 December, 2012

Pathfinder RPG News Award-winning fantasy and SF editor Lou Anders gives a glowing review of the Pathfinder Tales novel Death's Heretic. As a holiday present to gamers everywhere, Super Genius Games presents a collection of a trio of Pathfinder house rules, Houserule Footnotes: Stocking Stuffers, for free. 29 different publishers have contributed 42 different PDFs to make up a PDF Superpack...

Balancing Instant Death

There exists a spell in the original 1974 boxed set of D&D which forces a group of creatures to all make saves or fall asleep, rendering them unconscious and subject to being killed in their sleep or ignored and passed by. For the last 38 years, we've been fighting against this spell, and effects like it. The so-called "save or die" or "save or suck" effects put one saving throw between a PC...
Review of The Dark Totem Part 1: The Missing Child by Rocks Fall Games
There are so many hooks that are used to convince a band of heroes into taking part in an adventure. Sometimes it is the lure of a powerful artifact, sometimes the lure of a dragon’s hoard, and sometimes it is out of a sense of fealty and honor to one’s king or queen or land. But possibly the strongest incentive to head into danger on an adventure is to rescue an innocent from the clutches...

Experience Point: What's Gonna Work? Teeeeamwork!

In my last column I spoke about the brick walls we encounter in life and in roleplaying. Deciding whether or not those barriers are worth breaking down or leaving behind. This philosophy is a great guiding principle for personal clarity, personal goals and personal obstacles. However, in life, as is the case in our games, we ain't in this alone. Sometimes we need to pay attention to the...

RPG News for Wednesday, 26 December, 2012

I hope that everybody had a great Christmas, and got plenty of excellent gaming loot! If you have a quick spare second, "liking", "tweeting", or "Google+ing" EN World using the buttons at the top right of this page would be a fantastic little Xmas gift for which I'd be very grateful! Dungeons & Dragons News WotC has created a Random Inn Generator. I just rolled up the False Tanner, with 8...

Pretty Darn Fun (a look at new PDFs)

We hope you all had a good holiday, and more importantly, we hope you got all the rpgs that were on your wishlists. If you didn't, here are 14 interesting PDF offerings (and 3 adventures) from this past week. Cthulhu Britannica: Folklore I’ll admit that I have never been a fan of the Cthulhu mythos or game, but I can understand why so many people are. My wife once played in a long-term Call...

RPG News for Monday, 24 Dec, 2012

Announcing the Winner of Battle of the Bards 2012http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k2PiQh5YYE Community News EN World columnist Challenger RPG asks Fed up of Rolling Dice for High Level Players? followed by a discussion on Winterizing Your RPGs. Check out this awesome hand-made tile set. It's not strictly gaming news, but game designer Monte Cook's and Jen Page's web series Geek Seekers...

Fed up of Rolling Dice for High Level Players?

Are there times when you’re rolling more dice than role-playing? The players are asking you for modifiers and spell rulings more often than being creative? This tends to happen at high levels of play when the players have accumulated a fair number of spells, abilities, skills, and magical items. The game may get to the point where you’re doing more math than game playing. Advancement is cool...

RPG News for Friday, 21st Dec, 2012

Pathfinder News Today's Daily Deal over at the Pathfinder Kickstarter is an Old One Idol. Each Daily Deal is an in-game item that will give your character a little extra. The voting is now underway for RPG Superstar 2013 and the twist this year is that the fans vote for Round One. F. Wesley Schneider talks about Blood of the Night for the Pathfinder RPG - what type of vampire is right for...

RPG News for Thursday, 20 Dec, 2012

Pathfinder News http://paizo.com/image/product/catalog/PZO/PZO9252_180.jpegPaizo's site is having problems. I know exactly how that feels. Anyway, they say: "We're having issues with the Internets office-wide and are working on getting it back up and running asap. Stay tuned, and thanks for your patience!" Update - back up and running! Paizo says "The Land Rush is ON over at the...

Review of Mistborn Adventure Game (Part 2) by Crafty Games

Last week, I posted the Part 1 of a review of the Mistborn Adventure Game, a role-playing game based on Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn Trilogy of fantasy novels. Crafty Games has used an indie style game system to translate the novels into a fantasy role-playing game with a unique character generation system and a fast dice-pool resolution system which is both story driven and player-character...

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