The Omnivangelist

milambus 29 July 2009 DnD, RPG No Comment

Wizards of the Coast News

• August 4th’s DDI Update will include Divine Power, Eberron Campaign Guide, Dragon 376 (including the Revenant) and Dungeon 167. Additionally, it will include a new Githzerai racial entry including feats and a new paragon path.

• 2009 ENnie Award Nominees: A complete list of the WotC products nominated for an ENnie Award this year.
• GenCon 2009 Schedules: All the events that WotC will be holding during during GenCon.
• GenCon Indy Approaches: Chris Tulach gives more details on the RPGA events going on at GenCon, and provides the rules for the D&D Championship.
• D&D Minis Legendary Evils Preview: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5. Each pack will contain 1 visible huge mini, 1 rare large mini, 1 rare medium or small mini, 2 common minis (5 total per pack). There are a total of 8 huge visible minis, 12 large rare minis, 12 medium or small minis, and 8 common minis (40 total).
• Big Trouble: In this article, Logan Bonner provides DDI subscribers with alternative stats for many of the minis from the new Legendary Evils set that is about to be released.
• AV2 Excerpt: Immurements: “An immurement is a rare form of magical prison that contains a place that has been sealed away from the rest of the world.” Use an Immurement to alter the terrain of an encounter.
• AV2 Excerpt: Story Items – Armor: All good armor has a story behind it.
• AV2 Excerpt: Story Items – Weapons: All good weapons have a story behind them.
• DDI Subscriber Downloads: Eberron Campaign Guide Art Gallery, Eberron Campaign Guide Map Gallery, Dungeon 168 Art Gallery, and Dungeon 168 Map Gallery.

Other News

• ENnie Awards: Voting has begun! Have you voted yet???

Articles

• DM Tips: June 2009 Archive: Mike Shea from Sly Flourish archives the DM Tips that he sent out over Twitter during the month of June 2009.
• Familiars by Artifice: In Dragon 377, Jennifer Clarke Wilkes discusses how Artificers harness the arcane powers to create familiars. (DDI Subscription required)

Podcasts

• RPPR Episode 32: Show and Tell – Maps and Minis: Role Play Public Radio discusses the use of maps, minis, props and other gimmicks at the table.
• The Podge Cast Episode 51: The Business and Props of the Podge: After recently celebrating their 50th episode The Podge Cast returns this week with their take on using props at the gaming table.
• The Tome Episode 110: Wolfgang Advice: Wolfgang Baur, the man behind Kobold Quarterly, joins The Tome’s host Jeff to create a human warlord, discuss how to create monsters and how to give a campaign setting some culture.

Gold

• Gold: The Series recently released the finale to their first season. “Gold is a comedy series about Professional Role Playing Gamers, written and produced for the web, which premiered in November 2008.” They are currently looking for donation to make a second season possible.
• The Tome Episode 111: Gold the Series: David Nett, the writer/producer/actor of Gold: The Series, recently joined Jeff to discuss Gold, D&D, gamers, and Gold’s upcoming showing at GenCon.
• RPG Blog II: A nice article about the series.

Tools

• IniTracker: An online initiative tracking tool. It requires the installation of a Google tool.
• Fight Card: Another browser based initiative tracking tool. This one you download and have to manually configure some files though.
• Action Stands and Status Flags: A new way to track status effects from Dark Platypus Studios. Trask from LivingDice.com recently reviewed them.
• Critical Hits recently released their Guide to 4e Accessories.