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52 Weeks, 52 Miniatures Gaming or just for the enjoyment of painting, I and others, as set up on this blog by one Mike Mearls, showcase some of the miniatures we're painting in an effort to reach 52 minis in 52 weeks.

I would like to see Mike take care of the real problem of reduced content in Dragon by going by his own gaming roots that hail to many editions and plumbing the best. Dragon's Bestiary: This one should be a no-brainer. With the thin air at the top of the Epic set of ten levels, there should be...

Over at Appendix N I'm blathering about The Religion by Tim Willocks, a historical action adventure piece set during the siege of Malta. I'm also reading the Monks of War and various Ospery books that tend to be in the time zone/period of the material I'm reading.

and yet, has not WoTC, thro0ugh it's own repeated actions, not demonstrated that they will change course on a dime if they think it will benefit them? In my experience, the answer is yes. They have repeated shown that in terms of customer service, they are bound by their own inability to do...

Indeed. Especially as they are charging for this material. I believe it was a similiar number of bugs crushed last time. At that huge number of issues, the beta status of this release is pretty much pounded into its forehead. Newer players who never had the old CB or those who've decided to...

Thankfully Wizards has learned a lot this year. next year for instance, I'm sure we'll see a legends of Kara-Tur boxed set with options to customize all of the core classes with new chi powers. But it'll be cancelled the month of its printing and turned into Eastern Fortunes, an expansion deck...

I do not like the idea of Essentials. It takes many preexisting classes and wraps them up in delicious bacon and makes me want to use them. The spreading of rules multiple times through multiple sourcebooks however, is a deliberate cash grab. Many of my friends fiend many of the builds in the...

Applause to WotC for doing okay by the GMs. I'm not saying they had to do anything for them first of all. But personally, I would have liked to have seen some custom minis or sheets of counters. Having said that, in regards to the GF9 stuff, yeah, it getsin the way. I mainly wind up using the...

Most editions of D&D have done this. Even 2nd ed had its various homages with the Return to series or the Revenge of series. I'm cool with it. I do wish that they could compendium up though at the start of the mill. Come out with the core books as they will, then do the collection of...

and don't forget fiery dragon's free counters for the keep http://www.fierydragon.com/downloads/castle_shadow.pdf

I'm a little surprised at the issues with the vampire. We already know monsters and characters aren't build the same way. We already know that player characters and NPCs aren't built the same way. This will probably represent one specific type of vampire for use in games by players. No more...

Thanks. It's a place to keep some of my ramblings.

I believe that there's a new edition coming out "soon."

Hope it does well for the guy but at $20 a pop on cover he's got to break $120. Part of the problem with PDF is that if you just want the material, that's still available.

Here's a 'good' thread if you will. Why do you subscribe to ye old DDI? Content? Character builder? It's not that expensive? Support Dragon and Dungeon?

The board games sound interesting. Shame about the whole 'China' problem. The fact that they apparently can't make these in America at a profit is baffling to me. The costs must be too high. Damn shame that even as technology advances with ye old 3d printers that the materials and...

Very promising. PDF map makers have been doing this for a while with layers.

When 4e just rolled out, I joined a game where the GM customized it by putting it into the Black Setting. More of a mood and theme thing than actually changing the rules, which was perfect for me. Several weeks in, GM decides to stop and let someone else run Star Wars. While I like Star Wars, I...

Most Planetary Romance adventurers generally feature an earthman from some point in time who is 'out of place' in his own world due to his fighting spirit, keen way with a sword, etc... put into a more primitive setting such as John Carter or Mars or many of the various serious published by Paizo.

Far be it from me to defend it but.... Interesting is a pretty broad subject matter. If it has an essentialized version of the sword mage ala blade singer, that will be, for example, of interest to me. Originality? Me'h? Seriously, the more I hear people talk about originality, the more I...