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Published September 29, 2009 by cball

Monster Manual review

Recently, I purchased the "Monster Manual" for Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition and had mixed feelings towards it. As I have stated in the past, I am a late adopter to 4th edition but, as they say, "better late than never".

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Published September 25, 2009 by cball

Jack Chick’s views on role-playing

Let me start out by stating that I have nothing against religion. I was a religion minor in college, and am myself a Christian. However, either Jack Chick is a nut-job or he is being satirical and no one gets it. How does Jack Chick relate to a blog about role-playing? Read on and find out.

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Published September 15, 2009 by cball

First 4th edition session

Last weekend, I ran the “Mists Of Madness” module from Goodman Games that I bought at Gen Con for my wife Katherine so that we could learn the rules. We got about half of the way through the module in our first session and did not have to look much up after about the first three encounters.

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Published September 10, 2009 by cball

Mea Culpa

So, I sit around corrected. Granted, this is not the first time that I have been wrong about something, even with regards to gaming. However, in this case, I believe that the confusion is justified.

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Published August 23, 2009 by cball

First impressions about 4th Edition

At Gen Con I finally caught up with the rest of the world and bought the core rule books for 4th Edition. Well, most of them anyway; I didn’t get the "Monster Manual" yet. So far several things have struck me as odd.