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Live from DDXP 2012
Once the seminars begin we will be live blogging coverage via google docs! Each seminar will get it’s own seperate google doc and links are provided below, as well as videos of each seminar and our quick Expeditious Interviews! Enjoy!
Also, please keep in mind that the text transcripts will need some cleaning up as they are full of typos and contain areas where I just couldn’t keep up with the dialogue, so please take it all in knowing it is not all 100% verbatim. I will provide links to video’s of each seminar that DO give the verbatim dialogue at a rate as fast as hotel Wi-Fi can give us.
Friday Coverage
- Class Design Seminar (Seminar Video Uploading)
- Expeditious Interview: Robert Schwalb, Game Designer at Wizards of the Coast
- Expeditious Interview: Trevor Kidd, Community Manager at Wizards of the Coast
Saturday Coverage
- Future Products + Q&A Seminar (Seminar Video Pending)
- Expeditious Interview: Chris Tulach, Program Manager for Wizards of the Coast (Pending)
- Expeditious Interview: Steve Townshend, Freelance Writer for Wizards of the Coast (Pending)
Sunday Coverage
- Reimagining Skills and Ability Scores (Seminar Video Pending)
- Expeditious Interview: TBA
- Expeditious Interview: TBA
Monday Coverage
- Special D&DXP Videocast Episode of Haste!
Haste Podcast: WotC To Reprint AD&D Books, Cavemaster RPG, The Future of Digital D&D
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 19:26 — 19.4MB)
[Episode 31]Announcements
Tonight we’re joined by GM Steve Wollet, winner of January’s Campaign of the Month acting as co-host. He gives us some cool tidbits from his game and discusses lots more with us. Also be sure to hit up our Tell Us About Your Character contest, as well as the d20Monkey caption contest! We’re also going to DDXP this week so be sure to tell us what you’d like to see while we’re there!
FSF: Old School Hack
Pen, Paper, and Paupers
Oh yes, it’s time for another Free System Friday, I bet you all thought that I’d forgotten. Ha! Cheapskates like me never forget about cool, free games, are you crazy? Today I bring to your attention one of the most unique and innovative games out there and the best part is the whole system is free: Old School Hack!
Server downtime for data migration
Our host is moving our servers to a new datacenter, and this means we will have some down time during the migration. It could be as fast as one hour, but conservatively we’re guessing it will be on the order of a a few hours and could be more if we encounter any difficulties.
We’re tentatively scheduling our move for Sunday, January 29 at 06:00EST. We may move the date if circumstances change, but we will try to give some advance warning of when it’s coming.
Tell Us About Your Character Contest!
No Really, Tell Us!
We all love to tell stories about our characters, don’t’ we? Too bad no one ever really likes to hear them though, and while this is true most of the time – this is not one of those times! In partnership with AwesomeDice we are running a contest where two lucky winners will win a set of dice of their choice and a very exclusive Obsidian Portal dice bag! Want in? Listen up and we’ll tell you how.
How PIPA/SOPA threaten your tabletop game
You may have noticed that many websites are shut down and blacked out today. We considered doing something similar but decided against it, since we didn’t want to penalize anyone who needed access to their campaigns in order to do last minute prep for their game. But, rather than sidestep the issue, we wanted to add our voice to the choir calling for action against the PIPA/SOPA bills in the U.S. Congress. Here’s a video that explains it much better than I can, but if you’re interested in how it affects Obsidian Portal directly, read on.
DDXP Is Coming
What would you like to see us cover at DDXP 2012?
- Interviews with WotC & Freelancers (77%, 17 Votes)
- Just the seminars, thanks. (59%, 13 Votes)
- Special Episode of Haste (36%, 8 Votes)
- Other (leave us a comment) (5%, 1 Votes)
Total Voters: 22
Loading ...Road Trip!
The biggest DDXP yet is coming in just about a week, and Obsidian Portal will be there to cover it all! Well, we’ll be there covering whatever we’re allowed to being as that there will be NDA’s involved, but rest assured we will try and get you as much juicy info on the next iteration of Dungeons & Dragons as possible.
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