MetalJim is having more fun with the Player’s Handbook 2…

Listen to the Chair Leg of Truth!

Being Part V of my Series on Medieval Battles… (back issues so far: Part I – “Hastings : 1066”; Part II – “Legnano : 1176”; Part III – “Hattin : 1187”; Part IV – “Arsuf : 1191”)
The siege and capture of Château-Gaillard, from England, by France, in 1203–4, spelled the effective end of England’s ability [...]

Porthos: You know, it strikes me that we would be better employed wringing Milady’s pretty neck than shooting these poor devils of Protestants. I mean, what are we killing them for? Because they sing psalms in French and we sing them in Latin?
Aramis: Porthos, have you no education? What do you think religious wars are all about?

In which MetalJim insists that 4e does, in fact, have meaningful class distinctions…

Who knew Kurt Russel had such a range…

I’ve mentioned this concept before but this time I go into depth…

Being Part IV of my Series on Medieval Battles… (back issues so far: Part I – “Hastings : 1066”; Part II – “Legnano : 1176”; Part III – “Hattin : 1187”)
Arsuf is, in a lot of ways, the “anti-Hattin” – a much less well known battle of the Third Crusade, but one that offers a [...]

Where “G” stands for “Gaming Awesomeness”…

Let’s mix things up a little…

We must do something about this blight on our hobby…

Being Part III of my Series on Medieval Battles… (back issues so far: Part I – “Hastings : 1066”; Part II – “Legnano : 1176”)
For even a casual student of the game, Hattin is a very famous battle, the beginning of the end for the Crusader Kingdoms, Saladin’s big victory, and all that. A great deal has [...]

Give depth to your game world and make the game mean something a little more…

Guess what I saw yesterday…

Random’s crash course in DM-ing…

I’m sure this is a popular subject this week, what with the movie opening and all, so I thought I’d ask d21 readers to weigh in on what they’re thinking about the soon-to-be-here Watchmen movie.
Since d21 is about gaming and gaming culture, what I want to know is, what’s your experience with Watchmen so far, [...]

Here’s what we call a win-win deal: skip the Coraline movie, save your mad movie money for Watchmen, then go to the library and help yourself to a Neil Gaiman two-fer: the book form of Coraline (text or graphic novel, your choice!) and his latest, The Graveyard Book. (Wikipedia entry here.)
Released last September to the now-usual [...]

To roll or not to roll for initiative, that is the question…

Mass Effect inspiried this week…