WotC News
- Dragon Editorial: Exclusively Yours: Chris Youngs explains how DDI Exclusive Content will work.
- Ampersand: Bill Slavicsek reminds us all that July is DM Appreciation Month. He goes on to tell us about the new Psion class which debuted in the Character Builder and on the Compendium. It is the 25th anniversary of Dragonlance, and there is a new Monster Builder coming to DDI soon.
- Character Builder and Compendium Updates: The Psion class debuts this month, the content from Eberron Player’s Guide has been added, Traps and Hazards were added to the Compendium and many other changes and tweeks were made. However, the Revenant is noticeably absent from this months update.
- The Psion: As I mentioned above the Psion class has debuted this month, being released directly into the Character Builder and the Compendium. Here Andy Collins, Bruce R. Cordell, Mike Mearls and Stephen Schubert offer their insight on how the class was designed. The Psion has a very interesting new mechanic were they augment their At-Will powers rather than get Encounter powers.
- Monster Builder: A preview of the new Monster Builder. Do I need to say more?
- Khyber’s Harvest: WotC has released their adventure from this year’s Free RPG day as a free PDF download. Khyber’s Harvest is an adventure set in Eberron, written by the creator of that setting, Keith Baker. It is designed for second level characters and includes five pre-generated characters.
Industry News
- 2009 ENnie Award Nominees: The nominees for this year’s ENnie awards have been announced. Of special note are the categories of Best Website and Best Podcast.
- Chessex: Some sad news out of Chessex this week. They will be discontinuing their line of single-sided vinyl game mats. There are still some supplies in stock, but the cost of materials has made this product line too expensive to manufacture. Note: The line of double-sided mats will still be sold, so the world is not coming to a complete end =)
Articles
- A Quick Crit Rule: RPG Blog II offers a quick idea on how to make critical hits more deadly in your 4e games.
- Mike Mearls recently shared his inspirations for the Fourth Edition classes over on the forums of RPG.net.
- The Dog Food Test: James Wyatt offers some thoughts on Google’s Chrome OS, D&D 4e, and designer/developers in general.
Podcasts
- Power Gamers: The Bear Swarm! Podcast offers some thoughts on Power Gamers.
- Barbarian: Radio Free Hommlet and Bryan from Reaper Miniatures discuss the Barbarian. Take a listen to learn about the minion propulsion system.
Tools
- Gaming Paper: A new product has recently hit the gaming scene. These are 30 inch by 12 foot rolls of grid paper specially designed for table top gaming.
- Review of Gaming Paper: Trask from LivingDice.com puts Gaming Paper to the test and offers up this review.
- Alea Tools Magnetic Markers review: Johnn from Campaign Mastery reviews the Alea Tools Magnetic Markers.
Milambus, aka Jake Fitch, has been a lifelong player of video games,card games, and board games. With the recent release of the Fourth Edition of Dungeons & Dragons he finally decided to start playing tabletop RPGs. He keeps informed on all the latest news from WotC, and RPG bloggers/podcasters and then shares that information with you.