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Former D&D designer to launch Dungeonaday.com

March 5th, 2009, 12:01 am by Jayson Peters

When Dragon and Dungeon magazines shed their physical forms to go to an online model, who knew so many publications for tabletop RPG players would burst onto the scene?

Next week Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition designer Monte Cook will launch Dungeonaday.com, which he describes as “a subscription-based website that will offer new game content every weekday. Basically, what I’ll be doing is building an ongoing dungeon-based campaign of a decidedly old-school tradition, but utilizing all the newest presentation options. So expect an adventure like no other with hypertext references to all the important game content (including various rules references), fluid encounters, and incredible amounts of detail.”

You can read more about the venture here, but basically the content will be somewhat “rules-lite” with a focus on the 3.5 D&D rules set.

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No easy way out of the Dungeon … or the Dragon

January 12th, 2009, 10:26 pm by Jayson Peters

D&D Insider, the online service that has replaced the print magazines Dragon and Dungeon, is turning out to be harder to escape from than the Tomb or Horrors or the Ruins of Undermountain. Read the rest of this entry »

Dungeons & Dragons goes Fourth

May 19th, 2008, 10:10 pm by Jayson Peters

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Grab your +2 holy avenger sword and dust off that old Crown Royal bag stuffed with your hidden polyhedral dice: The fourth edition of the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game is nearly upon us.

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Zero hp: Gary Gygax, 1938-2008

March 4th, 2008, 10:35 pm by Jayson Peters

gary_gygax_gen_con_2007.jpgGamers everywhere should pause their endeavors for a moment of silence: AP is reporting that Gary Gygax, the co-creator (with Dave Arneson) of the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, has died at age 69.

If you play any RPG, whether it be D&D at a kitchen table with pencils and paper, online with World or Warcraft or on a console such as the Xbox 360 with Mass Effect, you should know that none of it would have been possible without this man. He started it all with the miniatures wargame Chainmail in 1971, the foundation upon which D&D and all of modern roleplaying would rise three years later. Read the rest of this entry »

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