The Herald: Senator John Ito, d. Aug. 12, 2052

Aug 12, 2052
Senator John Ito (A-NVA) was assassinated today on the steps of the Capital building while speaking before a Humanis march on Washington.  He was 52.

Wizards Uploads PDF of Old Editions

Now via DriveThruStuff (formerly DriveThruRPG), Wizards is putting up old D&D content for a small fee! Check it out here.

A Glimpse of the Future

After Garrosh...

For the Horde

How the new Horde Warchief was selected:

In case you missed it...

The Horde has a new Warchief.

Two Beautiful Dreamlands Maps

While browsing, I found two beautiful maps of H. P. Lovecraft's dreamlands.

The first is a photoshop of an existing Dreamlands map, looking to be from the Chaosium Dreamlands book, by DeviantArt user Danial79:

The second is entirely more interesting to me, as a crafted-from scratch illustration capturing much more of the flavor of the Dreamlands, crafted by Jason Thompson (Mockman):

MMO Champion's Timeless Isle Chest Guide

In what appears to be the fastest way to gear a level 90, Blizzard has released epic loot tables in chests in the new Timeless Isle zone. After playing in it for an hour, I have 4 pieces of 497 purple gear, and I've not even started the chests. Here's MMO champion's chest guide.

Roman Augury

Research for a game I'm pulling together has brought me to an interesting guide to the details of Roman augury, divination, and in particular the reading of birds.  If this sounds up your alley, check it out here.

Card Design Software

While you could always fork over a few grand for Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrater, there's a free program called nanDECK that could very well do the bulk of your layout work.  Did I mention it's free?

Dropship Horizon

I wanted to feature one of the blogs I've added to my list -- Dropship Horizon.  Dropship updates regularly, and focuses on small-scale miniatures releases -- both 6mm and 15mm -- in sci-fi gaming.  Given that I've dabbled in using both scales heavily, Dropship's been a wonderful resource.  Check them out!

The 13th Age

I've been hearing a lot about the 13th Age RPG -- a d20 variant written by ex-WoTC employees that led the charge on 3rd and 4th Edition D&D.  There are three particular innovations that the 13th Age brings to the table:

1. Icon Relationships
2. One Unique Things
3. Escalation Dice

7 Deadly Sins of Worldbuilding

Following the Golden Rules of Worldbuilding, io9 offered up 7 mistakes that writers forget about.  These are perfect for vetting your chosen RPG setting.

Before the World of Warcraft...

There was just Warcraft.  Courtesy of youtube user Scrotus Maximus, here are all the game cinematics for Warcraft I, II, and 3, in order.