By Fitz, on October 12th, 2012% 
Welcome to another Friday and another news roundup! I don’t know about you, but sometimes I get lost in games other than tabletop RPGs. Blasphemous, I know. The last one was Skyrim. I lost hours and days playing that. But long before the Elder Scrolls, I was addicted to X-COM: UFO Defense from Microprose. I may have [...] . . . → Read More: Friday Knight News – X-COM Gaming Edition: 12-OCT-2012
By Fitz, on October 10th, 2012% 
Last week the Gassy Gnoll asked why 4e spell powers are so cut and dried. This week he wants to throw the D&D magic system out the window in favor of something much more open… Right now you create a wizard, pick a few powers, and run. All the powers work generally the same, using [...] . . . → Read More: The Gassy Gnoll: Shifting Magical Paradigms Without a Clutch
By Fitz, on October 3rd, 2012% 
The Gassy Gnoll is not a huge fan of magic users. Fireball sounds great in theory until you smell all that singed hair. But *his* alter ego has always enjoyed playing wizards ever since starting to play D&D back in 1982. [Shudder.] And though I may be a bit gray at the muzzle, but that [...] . . . → Read More: The Gassy Gnoll: Making Magic Missile Mine
By Fitz, on July 6th, 2012% 
Weeks with national holidays smack dab in the middle always throw me for a loop. Many of us were off on Wednesday in the US for our 4th of July celebrations across the country. So I worked the first couple of days of the week and will work the last two days of the week… [...] . . . → Read More: Friday Knight News – Independence Edition: 6-JUL-2012
By aarmstrong, on June 18th, 2012% 
There is a lot of buzz about Dungeons and Dragons Next. At the same time it is both a source of intangible hope and possibility and very concrete and malleable piece of gaming design. The players and game masters have been invited to weigh in on its construction, to offer feedback and input, to help [...] . . . → Read More: Strong-Arm Tactics: Why You Don’t Need to Play D&D Next
By Fitz, on June 8th, 2012% 
Given a choice, this issue of Friday Knight News might be called the “Promethean” edition given that Ridley Scott‘s Alien-derived-yet-new-universe in Prometheus hits theaters here in the States today. Though my daughters would prefer I somehow worked Madagascar into the mix (“I got to move it, move it…”)… But I decided we’d just stick with [...] . . . → Read More: Friday Knight News – Gaming Edition: 8-JUN-2012
By Fitz, on May 23rd, 2012% 
Sleep. It’s something this gnoll will get less and less of as the temperatures rise. Too much fur I guess… traps the heat and there’s only so many layers to strip off before you’re embarrassed to death or arrested. But my drowsy state has raised an interesting point in my muddled mind. Have you noticed [...] . . . → Read More: The Gassy Gnoll: To Sleep– Perchance to Get Back My Dailies…
By Fitz, on January 27th, 2012% 
Hope everyone has had a good week! Mine has been interesting… We’ve been dealing with getting some water damage assessed and fixed in our house after a small overflow in an upstairs bathroom resulted in a family room waterfall through a spinning ceiling fan. Who needs Vegas and the Bellagio fountains? I had one in [...] . . . → Read More: News from Around the Net: 27-JAN-12
By Fitz, on January 20th, 2012%
Welcome to the gaming news roundup for the week of 20-JAN-2012! This week was “one of those” weeks with work, so I’m gleeful that it’s Friday! Yay! The debate continued this week about “D&D Next” or “D&D 5e” or “Ultimate Fighting D&D With Kung-fu Grip,” so you’ll see a few stories related to that this [...] . . . → Read More: News from Around the Net: 20-JAN-12
By Fitz, on November 2nd, 2011% 
Now that this Gassy Gnoll has played a few sessions of D&D 4e, I have to say that one of the rules I have some serious issues with are the minions. Don’t get me wrong. I love minions. You can never have enough of them. But one hit point? Come on. If I’m in a [...] . . . → Read More: The Gassy Gnoll: Minion Math
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