There are, of course, other roleplaying game blogs out there. Here’s a round-up of this week’s news and events. Design blog PSDTUTS gives us 54 Mind-Blowing Digital Paintings. Included in this utterly breathtaking selection are some incredible samples of fantasy and science fiction artwork. Yax over at Dungeon Mastering reviews the D&D Insider character builder software. Newbie DM announces that the Draconomicon will include rules for killing a god in fourth edition. Tiamat is listed ...

A friend brought up the story of a campaign I ran where a fighter got more than he bargained for. This story contains a spoiler for Dungeon #126’s “The Clockwork Fortress”. Our heroes were tasked with assaulting a mighty clockwork castle, where they made it across the drawbridge and into the forecourt unscathed. They encounter a massive wall with a huge door in the middle, covered with mechanics and pipes and parts. The fighter knocks ...

Alignment in Dungeons & Dragons is a confusing topic at the best of times. Can a thief be Lawful? Should an Evil character be killed if they haven’t done anything yet? What alignment is Batman? A lot of people have some really weird ideas about what alignment means. I once DMed for a cleric who argued that that it’s not evil to use negative energy (raising undead) if you use an equal amount of positive ...

Even in this age of massively multiplayer videogame RPGs, I have a lot of friends who enjoy traditional roleplaying games online in some form. I’ve seen play-by-email, message board games and real-time games on internet chat - in fact I’ve written a free dice handler to aid real-time text-based Dungeons & Dragons games. As the game further develops the use of miniatures, however, you’re going to increasingly benefit from an online miniatures simulator, and WotC’s ...