Recently we reported how Gary Gygax’s son Ernie, along with his brother Luke, were all set to launch Gygax Magazine (See: Gygax Magazine do the 4DVENTURE thing) but a fire nearly killed Ernie Gygax before the first issue of Gygax Magazine hit the stores. Here is the story, in Ernie’s own words, of how a [...]
Last April, D&D Nexus reported that PelinoreRevived were “doing the 4DVENTURE thing“. Now the new Gygax Magazine is doing a 4DVENTURE-style countdown. Gygax Magazine is a magazine being supported by Luke Gygax and Ernest Gary Gygax Jr. (two of Gary Gygax’s sons) and there are a host of ex-TSR staff helping out (including former Dragon [...]
When Wizards of the Coast made the leap from 3rd Edition rules to 4th Edition rules, there was a lot of publicity about it, and then their website crashed from the sheer volume of people scrabbling for information. A few hours ago, I stumbled onto the fact that they are set to make an announcement [...]
Hey, gang, be sure to check out the Secrets of TSR panel from PaizoCon! Panelists: Jeff Grubb Pierce Watters Rob Lazzaretti Dave Gross Wolfgang Baur Stan!
Attacks of Opportunity is a project which aims to make PopAble dice containers, which can be used by gamers that have disabilities that prevent them from picking up and rolling dice. Originally invented as a gimmick that would stop gamers loosing dice that bounced off of the table, inventor Douglas Parker Gray soon realised that [...]
Last year, D&D Nexus reported on TSR UK’s campaign setting, called Pelinore, in a story called The World of Pelinore is flat… The story was not just about the setting, it was also about the website trying to revive this little known campaign world. Now that website — PelinoreRevived — is being upgraded and has [...]
You may recall that D&D Nexus recently reported that Bruce Heard has come back to the D&D scene. Today I surfed over to Bruce’s blog and read his About the Adventures of the Princess Ark blog entry. The start of his blog entry reminded me of one of the reasons why I think that canon encyclopedias [...]
Late last year, D&D Nexus reported that The Piazza moved from its normal URL to a temporary one. Now it is back on its main URL: http://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/index.php The Piazza, in case you don’t know, hosts independent forums for campaign settings for Dungeons & Dragons and other roleplaying games. It also has a section where D&D [...]
When TSR went under, and many of its staff moved over to Wizards of the Coast, Bruce Heard left the RPG industry to bring up his newborn son. Now that his son is older, Bruce has decided to come back to gaming and has started up a blog, called New… and to be improved, where [...]
The following is my response to a poll posted on WotC’s site. When I first came to D&D back in 2nd edition, I was enamored with the named spells. Melf’s Minute Meteors, Tasha’s Uncontrollable Hideous Laughter, Tenser’s Floating Disc, and who could forget the various Bigby spells? It was a time of discovery for me, [...]