Editorial/Opinion

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The Escapist Interviews Andy Collins and Liz Schuh of WotC

I really enjoyed the interview. It covers a lot of ground. The first part focuses a lot on the genesis of 4th Edition.

Andy Collins: ... And as far as the transition from 3rd to 4th, the thing I like to say is it took the company going out of business for going from 2nd to 3rd, and we weren't really eager to replicate that business model. So rather than wait until it was too late, we decided to be a little more proactive there.

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Lords of Tyr - Lords-of-Tyr-D&D-Podcast-033 with Richard Baker

Welcome to the Lords of Tyr D&D Podcast!

We are a Dungeons and Dragons gaming group that has been meeting twice a month since 2002. We now stream our game nights live on the Internet using uStream. Check out our site at http://lordsoftyr.com for more information

Lords in attendance: Stephanie, Brian, Chad, Mike, Rob, Rich Baker

Topic 1: D&D Experience and a New Play Experience

Submitted by Chadarius

Topic 2: University of Alabama Killer Dr Bishop and D&D: When Will the Idiots Stop?

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Topic 3: How about a happy D&D Story Now? How D&D Can Make You a Better Writer

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How about a happy D&D Story Now? How D&D Can Make You a Better Writer

After that last article I thought we could use a positive D&D story. 

In the wake of the D&D Essentials (D&D "Basic" set is back!) release later this year, some writers share their thoughts on how playing D&D helped make them better writers.

"Those three years playing D&D at boarding school did more to ground me in storytelling, plot construction, and sheer, raw imaginative throughput than any other single activity of my life."

 

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University of Alabama Killer Dr Bishop and D&D: When Will the Idiots Stop?

From IO9.com, "Did Dungeons & Dragons Motivate Dr. Amy Bishop's Murder Spree?"

It's been a long time since the psychopathic nerd stereotype stalked through cheap paperbacks and across TV screens. The Boston Herald digs deep into 1980s D&D paranoia to produce this shockingly clueless set of paragraphs

Bishop, now a University of Alabama professor, and her husband James Anderson [pictured below] met and fell in love in a Dungeons & Dragons club while biology students at Northeastern University in the early 1980s, and were heavily into the fantasy role-playing board game, a source told the Herald.

"They even acted this crap out," the source said.

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Lords of Tyr - Lords-of-Tyr-D&D-Podcast-032

Welcome to the Lords of Tyr D&D Podcast!

We are a Dungeons and Dragons gaming group that has been meeting twice a month since 2002. We now stream our game nights live on the Internet using uStream. Check out our site at http://lordsoftyr.com for more information

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Coming This Fall ... D&D Repackaged in the Essientials Product Line?

Coming This Fall ... - Bill reveals the essential facts about the upcoming Essentials products! [Wizards of the Coast D&D]

Basic D&D Purple Box"The Essentials line consists of 10 key products that will always be in stock and will form the core of the Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game experience moving forward. Each product is designed to provide a more streamlined, more directed, and less expensive experience for the user. These products don’t replace the existing Player’s Handbook, Dungeon Master’s Guide, or Monster Manual. They represent a separate pathway into the game."

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D&D As the Basis for Modern Video Games

I found this article at Crispy Gamer about how computer games and D&D evolved together and in the author's opinion spawned the video games we play today.

Dave Thomas writes:

"If you were to randomly pick two influential titles out of the history of videogames and you ended up with Akalabeth: World of Doom and Quake, you'd be very lucky -- since you'd have plucked two games that have their roots in D&D. Richard Garriott's prototypical dungeon-crawler Akalabeth was his effort to hybridize his fascination with D&D and computers into an alchemical combination that would birth the computer role-playing game as we know it today. And Quake turns out to be the name of John Romero's D&D character, and the cult of multiplayer action that it spawned was a short 20-sided die roll away from the group fun of every dungeon party to venture into the mists of a D&D adventure."

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Lords of Tyr - Lords-of-Tyr-D&D-Podcast-031

Welcome to the Lords of Tyr D&D Podcast!

We are a Dungeons and Dragons gaming group that has been meeting twice a month since 2002. We now stream our game nights live on the Internet using uStream. Check out our site at http://lordsoftyr.com for more information

Lords in attendance: Brian, Stephanie, Bob, Rob, TJ, Benensky

Topic 1: 10 Questions (With a Gamer)

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Topic 2: Character Creation Rules for Bob's new Campaign

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Discuss character creation rules, the characters we created and their backgrounds.

Topic 3: What Character Classes are you missing in 4E?

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