Friday Fantasy Fun - D&D Links to Finish the Work Week: February 22, 2008

First, a video, discovered first by Kimmie:

I know I’ve featured it here before, but I have to read Dark Dungeons at least once a year. Yes, I know, linking just encourages them. I can’t help it.

Yax linked this one on Monday, but I’ll echo his sentiment here. Critical Hits has an excellent discussion of the 4E/WoW/MMORPG controversy. I can’t go whole hog with what he says, but he’s at least 80% on.

I’ll go even further back, a whole three weeks, to a post at Scholars and Rogues. I am a Geek in a Jock Culture is a fun, if slightly depressing, read.

Shamus over at Twenty Sided offers a look into the kooky costuming of Cosplay. Warning: his link goes to a site with Cosplay girls hot enough to make you want to dress up like Lacus Clyne.

My new friend Kam (I can call him that, he even said so!) has a review of the Dragonlance movie. I haven’t seen the movie yet, but Kam’s review suggests that it is not surprising, even if it is disappointing.

I’m sure you’ve been reading The Chatty DM for a long time now, but I have just found him in recent weeks. If you haven’t read Phil’s work, or even if you have, check him out. I especially like his RPG Tropes series.

A last minute addition today is from the Encounter-a-day blog. Yep, that blog is just what it sounds like: every day, Monday through Friday, Ian Toltz provides an encounter of some sort, grouped by themes and such. Thursday’s entry, Specters of Ptolan have me intrigued with this one. If nothing else, the site might be a great resource for inspiration, if not for usable ideas.

I’ve got one dishonorable mention. Trask over at LivingDice.com had a post Wednesday about how recent world events have inspired him as a DM. You know, recent events like “the attempted assassination/coup of the East Timorese president and the official secession of Kosovo from greater Serbia.” DUDE! That’s your reaction?!? “This would make a great D&D story?!?” What are you THINKING?!?

Look, Trask. If you tell players where you get your ideas, they’re liable to watch the news, figure out all of our plots, and bring about total game destruction. Shame on you.