Time Stop, Sept 9th
Welcome to Time Stop, your week in review for fourth edition Dungeons & Dragons. This week I bring you some great articles from the RPG Bloggers Network, and a few resources to help your D&D game.
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- Fourth Edition game designer David Noonan discusses where roles in Dungeons & Dragons come from. (Note: links to earlier articles at top)
- Ed Healy offers some advice on How to publish a 4th Edition adventure.
- RPGMonks.com offers a list of Background Skills that can be added to Fourth Edition Dungeons & Dragons.
- Newbie DM shares his idea about Imposing a :30 time limit on 4th ed. players.
- Gabriel from Penny Arcade shares the his Free Fall Combat rules for 4e.
- Mike from Sly Flourish compares various Battle Map for your table top games.
- Newbie DM describes how to Update DDI Compendium stat blocks the easy way.
- “Skill powers are utility powers that you qualify for not based on your class, but by training in a particular skill” [Requires a DDI subscription]
- The next World Wide Game Day for DMG2 is also Talk Like a Pirate Day. I expect many hi-jinks shall ensue.
- Make your own Gelatinous Cube Miniature.
- Matt James offers a list of D&D Campaign Hirelings for 4e.
- Chgowiz discusses Dungeons & Dragons roots in wargaming and how that effects Fourth Edition.
- Chatty DM discusses The Issue(s) of Combat length in D&D 4e.