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Domains at War was featured in the EN World news a while back - Folks: Attaching a Wargame to your RPG? Alex Macris is doing just that. - and now it's been successfully crowdfunded, with 19 days left to go in its Kickstarter campaign. The goal of Domains at War is to extrapolate d20 combat...

I'm doing some stuff with minis and DF for Grognardia Games' Dwimmermount that I think is really cool, and I could use your help! Since James uses miniatures extensively in his home Dwimmermount campaign, some of the backer rewards I've put together for the Kickstarter effort to fund...

In a thread about the Adventurer Conqueror King System, Piratecat suggested that Legacy would be a good place to post about the Kickstarter for the Player's Companion, ACKS' first supplement. Orion at The Moldy Vale is willing to take the blame for telling you to check this out (in language not...

At Vaults of Nagoh, Chris Hogan has a post called ACKS Eats 5E's Lunch, Belches Heartily where he says it "basically does what WOTC wants to do with 5E: namely, nick the best elements from preceding editions of D&D and kludge them into one (hopefully) all-conquering whole." (Orion at the Moldy...

I'm organizing a discussion on how playing a role on stage relates to gaming in NYC on Wed., Dec 14th at 8:30 pm. It'll be at the Flea Theater immediately following the 7 pm performance of the play SHE KILLS MONSTERS, which has Dungeons & Dragons as one of its central themes. I put this...

I heard that the first 3 issues of the IDW D&D comics shipped with variants that included playable versions of the adventure after each issue, complete with character sheets. Can anyone confirm or help point me to what these were?

The Third Annual Dave Arneson Memorial Gameday is on what would have been his 64th birthday - next Saturday, Oct. 1 - and better than ever. It runs from 9 am until 11pm, hosted by the Brooklyn Strategist which is doing really cool outreach to kids and working to become a third space for their...

Since the EN Worlder in question is me :blush: I know part of this story - back in '08 I applied for a game designer position posted at the WotC site, and James Wyatt liked the design test portion of my application and took a chance on me - thanks man! Thanks also to Mike Mearls for later...

Hill Cantons blogger ckutalik just announced that his forthcoming Hill Cantons: Borderlands is going to be compatible with my forthcoming Adventurer Conqueror King. As a developer I'm pleased to hear him say "the unified economic system inside ACKS is a really inspired piece of work"; as a...

Picture an old-school game that has detailed rules for campaign activities like running a thieves' guild, recruiting an army, or constructing a dungeon beneath your wizard's tower so you can harvest monster parts for your spell components. Would you want to include skill DCs, designing skill...

Seeing diaglo's posting about OD&D reminded me that I usually look forward to getting together with folks from here at Gen Con. This year, the normal ways I do that are ruled out because I will be insanely busy running a continuous four-day demo of a new second-wave retroclone I helped create...

I'll be visiting Auckland and points nearby on July 6-10 and would love to meet some gamers while I'm there, whether it's to roll some dice or just have a drink and talk about our respective local scenes. I'll be traveling with my wife and nine-year-old son; the latter is an enthusiastic gamer...

I need help with the afterschool D&D class I teach on the Upper East Side of Manhattan on Thursdays from 3:10 - 4:30. The job pays $40 per class, and involves helping kids 8-12 years old play D&D, most often acting as an assistant to one of the student DMs. If you or anyone you know are in the...

Ethan Gilsdorf, notable for his book Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks (which recently got a great review at Grognardia) as well as his blogs at Tor and Psychology Today, left a comment to my post about D&D in Contemporary Art at The Mule Abides: I will definitely be checking this out and would...

I'm moderating a panel on the interactions between Dungeons & Dragons in Contemporary Art, and am hoping to get some suggestions for stuff that would be interesting to explore with a bunch of artists whose work is exhibited in galleries & informed by their experience playing RPGs. Some of the...

I'm writing an article for the Escapist's Issue 271: The Red Box Diaries, "How a decades-long love affair with Dungeons & Dragons is reshaping the industry." (Here's a link to my previous piece for them, "D&D is the Apocalypse".) As part of that, I'd like to try to sketch a sense of how popular...

Ben Robbins of the Ars Ludi blog has passed the word that Major David Wesely will be at Gen Con this year, mostly at the National Security Decision Making Game but willing to run the original Braunstein scenario for interested players. Links from that post detail the history of Braunstein and...

Over in the thread I forked this from, there's a discusssion of the Gospel of Papers & Paychecks: and Harlekin points to Piratecat's 4th edition thread as a good example of a storytelling approach. I played in a 4E game Piratecat ran at Anonycon and it was fantastic, one of the best...

International Traditional Gaming Week is coming up on March 21st through 27th! How are you going to celebrate it? I'm going to GaryCon II in Lake Geneva, WI on that first weekend and the Dave Arneson Memorial Gameday at the Compleat Strategist in NYC, NY on the 27th. In Chicago, chgowiz is...

When: Saturday, March 27th, noon until 5 pm Where: Compleat Strategist, 11 E. 33rd St., Manhattan, NY What: Celebrating Arneson's legacy by playing some of the roleplaying games inspired by his pioneering 1972 Blackmoor campaign (a category which includes D&D of every edition!) Who: Players...