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Dungeons and Dragons 4E Cosmology and Core World

by Bob

One of the massive changes taking place in Dungeons and Dragons 4E is the creation of a core world. Up to this point, D&D has only ever provided players with elements of a core world or core cosmology – such as the old Greyhawk Deities in D&D 3E.
This change is a long time coming. Think [...]

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What If? On 4E and the Future

by Bob

What if it sucks?
Worse…
What if I don’t think it sucks, but the rest of my group does?
I’ve been asking myself this lately, as I think my good friend Phil has convinced Randy and the rest of our local group that 4E is going to be bad. REALLY bad.
Aw, hell. It’s not fair to blame it [...]

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Will you always play DnD?

by Bob

I want to tell you all about a couple of conversations I’ve had lately.
The first one is an ongoing discussion with my friend Randy. Randy and I tend to have these big idea discussions about D&D, about our group of friends, and about our lives. One discussion revolved around whether the people you play D&D [...]

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The 4E Malaise

by Bob

If your gaming group is anything like mine, you can’t stop talking about Fourth Edition.
Every blog post or article at WotC, every entry at EnWorld, and every goofy comment (no offense, boys) at Critical Hits and my guys are chatting it up. It is as if they are a knitting circle that just found out [...]

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Why I am getting DnD Insider

by Bob

Just now I was able to make it through The Game’s amazingly thorough play-by-play account of the 4E seminar at DDXP.
I was skimming along, trying to get the bird’s eye view, when something caught my eye.
I did a spit take.
Then, I did a double take.
After cleaning off my laptop, I read it again:
“Rules Database. Searchable online [...]

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4E at DDXP – SEE IT NOW

by Bob

Just because I’m off messing with a new blog and haven’t had much time for D&D this week doesn’t mean you can’t get your DDXP 4E info right from the source.
Get over to Critical Hits and check it out!

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Primary Group Cohesion in Dungeons and Dragons

by Bob

Stupid Ranger has an insightful post today about the way that players should work together in a D&D game. I won’t rehash her points, you can read them over there for yourself. I will add something to the conversation, though.
When I was getting my Master’s degree in History, I had a professor who turned us [...]

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4E at DDXP – Get the Down-low.

by Bob

Just a quick entry this morning.
Get your asses over to critical hits NOW and tell the boys what you’d like to have them talk to the WotC designers about this weekend. Bartoneous and The Game have scored press passes for the event, and have promised to be eyes and ears for those of us stuck [...]

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DnD 4E Rogue – join the conversation

by Bob

For those of you who are scroll- or click-impaired, and may have missed it over the weekend, Wizards released the 4E rogue in all his glory last Friday. We’ve got some interesting takes on it over at Critical Hits, so I encourage you to check those out. No, really. Go now.
For those of you who [...]

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