Archive for July, 2008
4e Forgotten Realms preview released
Wizards of the Coast have released, via their organised play body the RPGA, a preview of some material in the forthcoming Forgotten Realms supplement to 4th edition D&D.
On that promo page is a link to download the preview document, which contains some expurgated rules for creating drow, genasi, and swordmage characters, as well as the [...]
Posted: July 23rd, 2008 under Miscellanea.
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Actual Play: AD&D 1st Edition
Last Sunday I had over for a solo game. Having recently acquired a nearly-complete set of 1st ed AD&D books, and knowing that it's simple (and familiar) to run and create characters for, I proposed running that. It wasn't a long session (three and a half hours, one and a half of that for [...]
Posted: July 22nd, 2008 under Actual play.
Tags: AD&D
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White privilege in fantasy fiction and gaming
Being White, I have the dubious privilege to be able to ignore race in my roleplay gaming and my fantasy fiction. It’s a dubious privilege because it’s one that is impossible to ever fully decline. That’s not to say “poor white me boo hoo”—rather, the only moral response is to decline the privilege at every [...]
Posted: July 8th, 2008 under Power and privilege.
Tags: 3e, A Wizard of Earthsea, alienation, art, bingo, culture, D&D, fantasy, Ged, Hollywood, industry, invisibility, magical negro, marketing, Monte Cook, Orientalisation, race, Regdar, resistance, sexism, shared ficiton, Ursula K. Le Guin, White privilege, Whitewashing, World of Synnibarr
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