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Category Archives: Game Design
Create your own Dungeon Tiles from scratch with Photoshop
Learn how to create your own full color, printable dungeon tiles for your own games using Photoshop in 5-10 minutes. Continue reading
Posted in Dungeons & Dragons, Game Design, Game Resources, Homemade, Role Playing Games, Tabletop Wargames
Tagged d&d, D&D4e, dragons, Dungeon Tiles, dungeons, mapping, maps, photoshop, tiles
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Table of All D&D 4E Character Classes [Updated - Player's Handbook 3]
With the release of the D&D 4E Players Handbook II the number of character classes has doubled to 16. Now that all the classes are spread over two books, we thought that it might be easier to see what is … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Dungeons & Dragons, Game Design, Game Resources, Role Playing Games
Tagged arcane, ardent, artificer, assassin, Avenger, Barbarian, Bard, battlemind, classes, cleric, controller, d&d, d&d 4e, D&D4e, defender, divine, Druid, Dungeons and Dragons, fighter, Forgotten Realms, invoker, leader, martial, monk, paladin, primal, psionic, ranger, rogue, rpg, runepriest, shaman, Sorcerer, striker, Swordmage, warden, warlock, warlord, wizard
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Starcraft II: No LAN support. Huh. Implications?
Latest news reports that the upcoming Real Time Stategy Game Starcraft II won’t have LAN support. Basically, you’ll have to play it over Battle.net, Blizzard’s online gaming system. Article on Gamespot.
An interesting move, to be sure and here are a couple of reasons for this… Continue reading
Posted in Computer Games, Game Design
Tagged battle.net, blizzard, LAN, piracy, rts, starcraft, starcraft II
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D&D 4E Players Handbook 2 In Depth Review
And about time, too. This is a review of the 4E PHBII. For a review of the 3.5 PHBII: it’s arguably the best 3.5 book in existence. Anyway, on to the point. 4th edition leads itself nicely into splat books, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Dungeons & Dragons, Game Design, Role Playing Games
Tagged 4E, Avenger, Barbarian, Bard, d&d, Druid, Dungeons and Dragons, featured, PHB, PHB2, PHBII, Players Handbook, Players Handbook 2, review, rpg, Sorcerer
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Nostalgia Revisited: Half-Life 1
This is the first in what will hopefully be a series of articles, where we here at Dice of Doom look at old games, and see if they are really as good as we once thought. Warning: this is a … Continue reading
Posted in Computer Games, Game Design, Strategy Guides
Tagged fps, half-life, hl, hl2, nostalgia, sierra, strategy, valve
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Monster of the Week: Zombies
Ah, Zombies. A classic creature from various mythologies that, like many others, has been revived through modern film and literature, and is thus standard fare for roleplayer gamers such as us. Ironically, many of the aforementioned reviving pieces are set … Continue reading
Posted in Bestiary, Dungeons & Dragons, Game Design, Game Resources, Role Playing Games
Tagged 3.5, 4E, Bestiary, d&d, Dungeons and Dragons, monster, Monster of the Week, zombies
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Monster of the Week: Mimic
The Mimic is a classic monster dating back to the beginning of D&D. It’s a creature that, in standard Gygaxian fashion, tries to kill you despite looking like a piece of furniture. It can assume the shape of just about … Continue reading
Posted in Bestiary, Dungeons & Dragons, Game Design, Role Playing Games
Tagged 3.5, 4E, Bestiary, d&d, mimic, monster, Trap
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Monster of the Week: Lycanthropes
Lycanthropes, or Werewolves, are a strong part of our standard mythology. Wolf attacks on humans combined with the human penchant for imagination lead to an obvious result. Oh, look, wolves ate my sheep. It was totally that next door neighbour … Continue reading
Posted in Bestiary, Dungeons & Dragons, Game Design, Role Playing Games
Tagged 3.5, 4E, Bestiary, d&d, Dungeons and Dragons, lycanthrope, monster, Monster of the Week, wererat, werewolf, werewolves
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Monster of the Week: Golems
(Er, Monster of the Month, due to sickness and the whole Christmas thing) Golems are a classic part of D&D. Everyone knows the deal: you find a statue with massive eye gems, you pry the gems out, and the statue … Continue reading
Posted in Bestiary, Dungeons & Dragons, Game Design, Role Playing Games
Tagged 3.5, 4E, Bestiary, d&d, Dungeons and Dragons, golem, monster, rogue
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Foldable 3D Paper D&D & Tabletop Scenery Models
I stumbled across this the other day on the WOTC website archives (from 2003). It is the PDF’s and JPG’s of paper based 3D building models. The quality and detail is quite amazing, and they are no trouble at all … Continue reading
