Nyarlathotep Stars in New Japanese Animation
Tentacled horror Nyalathotep of the Cthulhu mythos appears in a new animated romantic comedy airing now in Japan. In this season’s Haiyore! Nyaruko-san, the Crawling Chaos of H. P. Lovecraft’s horror...
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Why Every Group Should Play Maid RPG, Once
Two weekends ago I flew across the pond to Chicago to attend Anime Central, the third largest Japanese animation convention in the US. The convention has a surprisingly large tabletop games presence,...
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Tabletop Forge: A New Google+ Gaming App
I’ve talked about gaming with Google+ before. Now, a new app is revolutionizing how tabletop games are played on Google+. Tabletop Forge is a virtual tabletop app that integrates with Google+...
View ArticleWill D&D Next Have Better Digital Tools?
The other day, I had a question about my D&D 4th edition game: What modifiers apply to Initiative? Looking up the answer reminded me of some annoying flaws in the D&D 4e Compendium. First,...
View ArticlePathfinder Kickstarter Funded With Hours to Go
Goblinworks’ Kickstarter for Pathfinder Online has just hit its funding target of 1 million dollars, with mere hours to spare. Yesterday, the crowdfunded project was more than $125,000 away from its...
View ArticleRunning a Convention Game? Don’t Be That Guy
A really good article this week at Critical Hits. Chatty DM goes over The Top Ten Things That Can Make Convention Games Suck.
View ArticleDicecards: Polyhedral Dice in Deck Form
Occasionally, something really cool shows up on Kickstarter. Dicecards is one such project. Dicecards is a deck of Poker cards with varying pictures of thirty types of dice, allowing you to simulate...
View ArticleE6: The World of D&D in Six Levels
E6 is a variant of Dungeons & Dragons v3.5 that challenges one of the game’s basic assumptions: What if there were only six levels instead of at least 20? And why would you want to play this way?...
View ArticleHow Many Of You Used Google Reader?
Google has announced that they’re retiring Google Reader, the RSS feed aggregator. Over 1,200 people read D20 Source via the RSS feed, and the overwhelming majority of those came from Google Reader....
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Tabletop Gaming at Chicago’s Biggest Anime Convention
There aren’t many places where you can see girls dressed as Fili and Kili, two of the dwarves from The Hobbit, facing off against a man dressed as Spike, the baby dragon from My Little Pony. But one...
View ArticleHow the NSA Saved Modern Role-Playing Games
It is the 21st Century, and over half the population is hooked on portable technology. Digital communications networks have become a necessity of life. But a clandestine government agency monitors all...
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