September 2008

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September 18, 2008 in Roleplaying | 1 comment

I’ll confess that I used to think that the Technocratic Union from Mage: the Ascension was well on its way to irrelevance. The Syndicate will always be relevant, and likewise Iteration X. It’s the New World Order that always puzzled me a bit— the Internet and various bits of citizen journalism seemed to put to rest the notion that government could exert so much control over the media. I was much more afraid of corporations as a bunch of Little Brothers rather than any one Big Brother.

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Light posting

September 13, 2008 in Roleplaying | No comments

There’s gonna be only light posting this week or so, as you might’ve detected. Real life is catching up with me, including some deadlines at work followed by traveling.

That said, I did bring Hunter: the Vigil with me, so maybe I’ll write some thoughts about that. There’ve also been some D&D Insider articles up I could talk about a bit.

In the meantime, I recommend you check out blogs on my blogroll, or hit up rpgblogger.com, if that’s not what brought you here in the first place. :)

Suboptimal build: dwarf wizard

September 7, 2008 in Roleplaying | No comments

Are you ready for this? This combination is an interesting thought experiment. It’s clearly suboptimal, and kind of a one-trick build, mechanically speaking. And it’s not even that great of a trick!

For this build, we’ll go with level 5. Why level 5? Because that’s what level we were in the Moathouse adventure I played at PAX.

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