Once upon a time, a comic action sequel was released. A week later, Dark Knight destroyed it.
Let me sweep the dust from this forgotten title, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, and give some impressions now that I cant possibly watch Dark Knight again without becoming The Blogger – a villain that trolls the internet punishing [...]

… and Paragonic trials, and … Epical trials. Encounters are what fills the play time of D&D, creating the adventure in the adventure.
The Dungeon Master’s Guide begins covering this in Chapter 3: Combat Encounters, before all that other shit about storylines and campaigns. It’s little more than a supplement to the Players Handbook combat chapter. Extras covered [...]

Eventually, as you play in a RPG, you’ll eventually want to expand your creativity beyond just a single representative player character … or your Game Master will move away, get married, become a parent, or most often be diposed if not outright lynched for corruption from this virtually god-like power. For this, many turn to [...]

I took a detailed, meticulous, scrutinizing, ultra anal look at the 4th edtion Players Handbook of the Dungeon and Dragons roleplaying game. This much vaunted title is the gateway game of our hobby and flagship product of the entire industry. As such, it demands attention to dispell the rumors and prejudices of nay sayers -pissed about having [...]

My rediscovery of Star Blazers has been putting sci-fi themes in my head and inspiring new games to come. I‘ve been hammering out some FATE ship design rules on RPG.net this week, which has received praise from role-playing geek net posters. You know you’ve got something great when folks don’t post much in reply — [...]

A new friend of mine asked me last Friday what was my favorite that I’ve seen recently. Being an avid cinemaphile and generator of opinion (as you may have noticed), this caused a mental lag akin to calculating pi to the power of pi on a watch calculator. (Me: “Duuuuuh …”) I came out of [...]