Wednesday Knights Blog

If role-playing games have one thing in common, it’s that almost all of them use specialized dice. You know, the kind of dice you won’t find in casinos; the dice with more (or less) than six sides; the dice that you might carry in an elaborate leather pouch; the dice that cause your parents, classmates [...]

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Game Mastering Articles

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The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court’s decision banning the playing of Dungeons & Dragons in a Wisconsin Prison. According to the AP:
Prison officials enacted the ban in 2004 after an inmate sent an anonymous letter expressing concern about Singer [the prisoner] and three other inmates forming a “gang” focused around [...]

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Check out the Official D&D Soft Drinks.

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Pathfinder Database
Pathfinder Wiki
Paizo Downloads

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Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Dave Arneson dies at 61.

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An interesting article about a gaming store and gamers in the Chicago Tribune. It includes a video as well.

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Here is a great chart from Adventures in Gaming that shows the various influences on the creation of D&D from the original version through the creation of AD&D Second Edition. It is an interesting chart that I spent some time perusing.
Hat tip to Wil Wheaton for pointing this out.

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My book finally arrived!!!!

There is a section on starting hit points. While the final play testing and brain storming on this is not yet over, there are several options for how to handle 1st level hit points. One option also includes adding hit points by your race. Frail races (elves) get 4 additional HP, [...]

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Wil Wheaton wrote about this a few days ago. True Realm, the people behind True Dungeon at Gen Con are putting on a two day extravaganza in southern Illinois in April. The announcement describes the event as:
It is a shared gamer-geek dream that someday there would be a “theme park” just for medieval fantasy gamers [...]

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