Dice of Doom Podcast 039: Goblins!, Fabled Lands, Mutants & Masterminds, and Using Skill Checks on PCs

The Dice of Doom Podcast Logo, Square, 125pxIn this, admittedly belated, episode of the Dice of Doom podcast we discuss how you (yes you!) can be part of the play testing experience for our new RPG Goblins! We discuss the games that we will be playing this year (Fabled Lands, Mutants & Masterminds, Shadowrun, Mouse Guard, Ars Magica, The One Ring, Traveller, Deadlands). We also review Fabled Lands.

For our discussion topic this episode we are asked the question by Michael S on our Facebook page “Should you be able to use your skills, like Diplomacy and Intimidate on other players?” We have to apologise to Michael S as we forgot to give him a shout out in the podcast. Sorry Michael S, our bad. We’ve mentioned it four times in the post as compensation…

While we’re about it, we should also thank Jake E (also on our Facebook page) for sending us some house rules for Fabled Lands – they helped with some of the balancing issues.

Play Testing Goblins: If you’re interested in helping out with Goblins! head over to the  site to see what the process is.

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And it’s official: New Games Workshop Citadel Paints

Following up on our report on the cryptic teaser trailer, we demonstrate again that the internet doesn’t like: the new Games Workshop news is indeed a new paint line. It looks like they’ve got a pile of new kinds of paint. Even if not, the last Citadel paint release, with the introduction of Foundation paints, was very good, so this new development is promising. Sadly, it doesn’t look like this release includes a wider release of the excellent Forge World Weathering Powder, but the new dry brush paints sound interesting.

Video after the break.

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Games Workshop: 145 Teaser Trailer

Games Workshop has just released a somewhat cryptic trailer, revealing not much but the number 145. So what’s it all about?

Well, news around the internet is that it’s probably a new line of paints. Yep, they’re revamping the Citadel paint line. Again. 145 is likely the number of paints (including washes and foundations) in the new range. Hoping they bring back something like Scaly Green…

Full video after the break.

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Dice of Doom Podcast 038: 12 Games/12 Months Wrap Up, Lady Blackbird Review and Spicing up Character Generation

In this, the final podcast recorded in 2011 (don’t worry, we’ve started recording 2012 podcasts), we discuss the awesomeness of the 20th Anniversary Vampire: The Masquerade Ultimate Everything In It Leave Nothing Out 500 Bazillion Pages Edition*,  we review Lady Blackbird and answer a question from Symatt on ways to spice up character creation.

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Another awesome occasion

Duncan and Michelle get marriedThis weekend a wonderful event occurred. In front of the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge in the lovely Botanical Gardens, Dice of Doomer Ellisthion (also known as Dungle Duncan) finally got married to Michelle. We say finally as it has been quite the journey for the two of them involving government bureaucracies, international conspiracies, ninjas and pirates (actually, I’m lying about at least one of the last two…).

Duncan met Michelle at university where they both were starting their mechatronics degrees. The details are a little sketchy as to how Duncan convinced one out of the 5 women in a starting class of nearly 100 to date him, but he managed it somehow. Since that fateful meeting, Michelle has been a part of Duncan’s other gaming group, and has supported his love of all things Lego and Star Wars.

In true nerdy fashion, music from Star Wars was played during the signing of the registry, the recessional was the theme music to Indiana Jones and the Best Man’s speech compared marriage to a Lego set rather successfully.

We hope you join with us in wishing them all the best as they kick in the dungeon door and start their adventure together.

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Warhammer Magic Guide: Lore of Death

This entry is part 6 of 7 in the series Warhammer Magic Guide

Death

The Lore of Death is a very powerful offensive Lore, focusing on spells to assassinate enemy Characters, along with the almighty army-destroying Purple Sun of Xereus. It is popular amongst new and experienced players alike, and is undeniably one of the most powerful Lores in 8th Edition Warhammer Fantasy.

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Warhammer Magic Guide: Lore of Shadow

This entry is part 6 of 7 in the series Warhammer Magic Guide

The Lore of Shadows is a powerful offensive Lore, with a solid mix of Hexes, Augments, and Direct Damage. It can allow any army to take on solid targets such as Monsters, as well as permitting fancy tactics by moving Characters around. The Lore of Shadows performs very well in competitive 8th Edition Warhammer Fantasy, and is one of the most popular Lores amongst players.

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Dice of Doom Podcast 037: Lady Blackbird, Religion in RPGs and Dealing with a Large Gaming Group

Dice of Doom Podcast LogoIn what we hope is a solid case of better late than never we present episode 037 of the DoDCast recorded in mid October of last year. This episode we discuss our initial impressions of Lady Blackbird (the Ennie Award winning free Indie RPG), discuss the effective use of religions in your roleplaying campaigns (via Symatt) and we look at ways to deal with an extremely large gaming group (via Jrronimo).

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  • [01:13] – Lady Blackbird
  • [05:44] – Religion in Roleplaying Games (including the infamous “Pantsbeer” segment)
  • [21:26] – Dealing with a Large Gaming Group

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Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition Announced (DnD5e)

Wizards of the Coast (WotC) LogoToday, with very little surprise, Wizards of the Coast announced that they were working on the 5th edition of the venerable game Dungeons & Dragons. Rumours of the announcement have been swirling through the Internet for a while now, particularly after it was revealed that veteran D&D game designer Monte Cook had rejoined the R&D Team.

First of all, a brief summary of the facts as we know them:

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Confessions of a Roleplaying Book Collector

The following is a guest post by Symatt which originally appeared here. Check out his  Counter Sketches, or get him to do a character portrait of your next character.

person reading lots of books in piles drawing by symattOnce again I was looking, lovingly, over my collection of roleplaying books. As I went through them, I discovered that there was a book I hadn’t bought yet from the Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition set. I immediately became anxious that my collection wasn’t complete. It had become important that I had a set, a complete set and I had found that it was less than it should be.

But hang on a second… What am I thinking? I don’t need or use nearly any of these books, including Call of Cthulhu, 7th Sea, Star Wars and many, many more.

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