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Roll the Dice: Player’s Handbook Races – Dragonborn

Cover-artOf all the races presented in the original Player’s Handbook of the 4th edition of Dungeons & Dragons, two races stood out as being new – dragonborn and tieflings. Both of these races had appeared in previous editions (dragonborn cropping up in the 3e book Races of the Dragon), but their 4th edition counterparts were significantly different, thematically at least. Bits of descriptive text dropped references to an ancient empire of Arkhosia, and the war with the tieflings that destroyed it, but the core flavor of the race was still not as defined as some would’ve liked. Dragon Magazine#365 tried to amend this with an article entitled ‘The Ecology of the Dragonborn,’ which has been expanded upon by the recent 32-page release, Player’s Handbook Races: Dragonborn. If you are playing a dragonborn character, wish to play one in the future, or are a DM who wants to know more about the core flavor of the race, this publication may be right up your alley…

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N-Strike Deploy CS-6

IMG_8765The newest weapon in the N-Strike arsenal is the most unique Nerf gun to hit the market. The N-Strike Deploy CS-6 is a collapsible blaster that is concealed in a harmless looking flashlight.

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News from Off the Rack: JMS to Take Over Writing Superman and Wonder Woman

Alex Segura posted on DC Comics’ Source Blog that J. Micheal Straczynski will be taking over writing duties for their flagship titles of Superman and Wonder Woman. You can read the information here.

Roll of the Dice: Underdark (4e)

Underdark from Wizards of the Coast for 4e D&D is a book that should give a DM everything that they need to run a game in the deadly underground setting below many fantasy realms in the game. And in this book succeeds in doing just that, IF you are willing to accept their story for the Underdark, a story which is vastly different than any previous story of the place.

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Off the Rack: Green Hornet #1

green-hornetSo, your Kevin Smith. You’ve got an unsold script to a Green Hornet movie treatment. What do you do with it? Sell it to Dynamic Entertainment (DE), of course.

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The Toybox - Blackest Night Series 3

blackest-night-fig3Matt and I have a large collection of Green Lantern figures and recently added DC Direct’s Blackest Night Series 3 which features a redo of the Carol Ferris Star Saphire, Larfleeze, The Orange Lantern, a female Green Lantern figure, Arisia, and the undead Black Lantern Aquaman.

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The (Retro) Digital Matrix: The Illusion of Gaia

Cover-artOne of the titles in the very loosely connected Soul Blazer series, Illusion of Gaia (or Illusion of Time in Europe) is an interesting fusion of action and story, fantasy and reality, and some truly mindboggling design decisions. Do you have what it takes to kill monsters by bludgeoning them with a flute?

Note: This is a Super Nintendo title. It may or may not be available via the Wii Classic Console Store. There are bound to be copies for sale on Ebay, however!

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The Digital Matrix: The Sky Crawlers – Innocent Aces

Cover-artVideo games offer all sorts of experiences, some exciting, others intriguing. For whatever reason, the titles that focus on dogfighting tend to have their own brand of thrill – either due to immersion or the feel of blasting others out of the sky. The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces delivers this for the Wii, with a fun twist – the controls kind of emulate those of a fighter plane!


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Off the Rack: New Avengers #62

The interesting thing about the “linked” Avengers Siege titles (New Avengers, Dark Avengers, Mighty Avengers, etc.) is that instead of telling stories between the pages or issues of the main Siege mini-series as typical of the previous cross-overs, we are being shown what happened in the few hours right before Osbourne and H.A.M.M.E.R. attacked Asgard.

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Off the Rack: Blackest Night: The Flash #3

flash3DC’s Blackest Night mega-event is moving towards its finale. With the third and final installment of the Blackest Night: The Flash miniseries, we are finally seeing the literal light at the end of the tunnel. For the most part, the various Blackest Night miniseries and crossovers have done little to progress the overall meta-story forward. Instead, they have followed a predictable formula of pitting Black Lanterns against those with whom they share an emotional bond. Arguably, that is the entire premise of the Blackest Night, but these miniseries and crossovers have had minimal impact and were nonessential. This is not the case with Geoff Johns’ final issue of Blackest Night: The Flash.

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Off the Rack: Justice League of America #42

Sometimes when you get what you thought you wanted, you realize you might not have wanted it in the first place.

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The Toybox: Ame-Comi Heroine Series Star Sapphire and Jade

dcdirectFirst shown at the their booth at Toyfair 2010, DC Direct will release two Green Lantern related figures in their popular Ame-Comi series that will have your heart beating just a few beats quicker if not even faster.

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Off the Rack: Dark Avengers #14

If you haven’t been reading this storyline then, hey, your gonna be sorry.

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Ticket Stubs: Justice League - Crisis on Two Earths

Imagine there are parallel worlds. Each time a decision is made, a new Earth is created. On one Earth, the Third Reich won World War Two. On another, life never crawled out of the sea. And on one world, everything is seems the same except the heroes we know (Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, etc.) are evil counterparts and the villains we know are the heroes.

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