Ok, so this is kind of old news given that Dragon Magazine went out of print back in late 2007. But I recently decided to pay for a month of D&D Insider and looking over the online Dragon magazines got me thinking about the status of pen and paper magazines as a whole. Honestly when…Continue readingDragon & PnP Magazines
Second part of my run through of the Cartographer’s Annual 2007 takes me from May through August. These four don’t seem quite as good as the original four, but there is still quality in it.Continue readingCartographer’s Annual ’07 part 2
After two long years of putting it off, I finally get around to using and reviewing the first four months of the 2007 Cartographer’s Annual by ProFantasy. Everything a budding cartographer might need for their CC3 software.Continue readingCartographer’s Annual ’07 Review pt. 1
This is the first creature that I made with Spore with Lodra, my MMO world in mind. Keep in mind I can’t do exactly what I want to with the creature creator, but I felt that the program gets me close enough to give others a rough idea at what I’m looking for in certain…Continue readingMy first Lodra/Spore Creature
If you follow the pen and paper RPG world at all, you would likely have heard that Dungeons and Dragons released their forth edition of the game system over this past weekend. The reviews have been fairly mixed and I wonder, do I actually want to bother? Even with mixed reviews and my own unease,…Continue readingTo 4e or Not to 4e….
One thing about any new Campaign Setting is that you really need to find a hook for it. By this I mean you need to find something about the world that hasn’t really been done fore, that distinguishes it from the others and makes it fun. You can’t just turn out yet another generic world…Continue readingFinding a Hook