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  • Blood Bowl: First images!
    19 December 2007 5:27 pm (0)

    Focus Home Interactive has the pleasure to introduce the first images from Blood Bowl, the video game adaptation of Games Workshop’s famous board game.
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  • Rock Band Gets TIMMY!
    11 December 2007 2:13 pm (0)

    Timmy & The Lords of the Underworld comes to rock band as a bonus track. (If you don’t know who Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld are, then your just too out of touch to be reading this in the first place…) Proof is in the pudding. The unfortunate part is that it [...]

  • Video Review: Assassin's Creed
    5 December 2007 4:20 pm (0)

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  • Video PreView: Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition Monsters
    19 November 2007 11:15 pm (0)

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  • Video Review: Clive Barker's Jericho
    14 November 2007 6:26 pm (0)

    I have to say it always warms the heart to find out that other’s share your views. This week Yahtzee Croshaw reviews Clive Barker’s Jericho and does such in his stylish way that shows my own review to be that of a wanna be video game reviewer. Perhaps one day I will be [...]

  • New Video Review at Sector360
    7 November 2007 10:05 pm (0)

    It’s Wednesday which means it’s time for a new Yahtzee Croshaw video review.  Be sure to check it out over at Sector 360.  You can watch it HERE
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  • DM Ride-Along: The Final Touches of Kh’bai cont.
    6 November 2007 10:16 pm (0)

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  • DM Ride-Along: The Final Touches of Kh’bai
    4 November 2007 10:14 pm (0)

    It’s hard to believe that this entire series of articles came about based on the hurried thoughts of last minute game preparation. download Alien: Resurrection movie The Evil Dead psp Dunkirk ipod What has stretched out over weeks in terms of the reports on Basement 51 flew by quickly over the [...]

  • House Rules: Experience More
    28 October 2007 6:36 pm (0)

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    The era of week-long gaming sessions during summer breaks or blowing off a symposium on Truth and Hegel to play Dungeons and Dragons all day are long gone. Bachelor Party Vegas divx Responsibilities [...]

  • DM Ride-Along: Choices of History for Kh’bai cont.
    25 October 2007 8:47 pm (0)

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    On the heels of the short history of Kh’bai, I want to take a moment to look at some of the choices I made and why.
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  • Warhammer 40,000 the Role Playing Game Sampler
    24 October 2007 9:49 pm (0)

    Ok, maybe the word sampler is not the right word, but it is a demo of the game.  While we have not had the chance to test the system here at the basement, we all have a connection to Games Workshop, so we are very excited to test the system and then we’ll [...]

  • DM Ride-Along: Choices of History for Kh’bai
    22 October 2007 8:29 pm (0)

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    On the heels of the short history of Kh’bai, I want to take a moment to look at some of the choices I made and why. As I’ve said, I always value [...]

  • DM Ride-Along: Background History of Kh’bai, Part 2
    20 October 2007 5:31 pm (0)

    While Kings Namadangken I and II represented recent history, their successor King Namadangken III would be the king that the player characters would be beholden to. I wanted him not only to continue an age of prosperity for the empire but also [...]

  • DM Ride-Along: Background History of Kh’bai, Part 1
    17 October 2007 5:29 pm (0)

    With my early map and a rough idea of what I needed from the world, I needed to flesh out the history of the Empire that the characters would adventure in. Early on, I knew the PC’s would be adventuring in the service of the King and Emperor of the nation of Kh’bai so [...]

  • DM Ride-Along: The Lands of Kh’bai on Paper
    14 October 2007 7:30 pm (0)

    With two players, one week, and a desire to delve into the various oddball rules of Dungeons and Dragons and, in particular, The Book of Nine Swords, the Lands of Kh’bai were born. Cookie’s Fortune full But my first step in devising a campaign world is a map. For me, it is [...]

  • New Dungeons and Dragons Cartoon
    11 October 2007 9:41 pm (0)

    Have you been wondering where the next great cartoon may come from? A cartoon that helps to truly express your feelings as a Dungeons and Dragons gamer? Well, we have the solution for you. From the website Fear the Boot, Shamus Young and Shawn Gaston have collaborated to create a new comic [...]

  • What's your inner D&D character? A revolutionary questionnaire!
    6 October 2007 7:11 pm (0)

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    From DungeonMastering, he’s got a pretty cool survey going. Answer 25 questions. That’s all you need to do to know what your inner D&D character is. It’s that easy!  Oh, and if you get something [...]

  • DM Ride-Along: Kh’bai for the Characters
    4 October 2007 4:11 pm (0)

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  • DM Ride-Along: Opening Concepts for Kh’bai
    1 October 2007 4:01 pm (0)

    As I do with all campaigns before they begin, I work from a handful of central themes. In designing what will be known as the Kh’bai Campaign, I had the added element of doing so on very short notice after our regularly scheduled game had to be cancelled. Dangerous Liaisons dvdrip With [...]

  • DM Ride-Along: The Introduction
    28 September 2007 3:51 pm (0)

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  • Wheel of Time Stops Rolling
    18 September 2007 2:26 pm (0)

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  • Find the Soul of the Game
    16 September 2007 8:32 pm (1)

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    The soul of a game. Some of us here at Basement51 have been talking about this issue for a bit now, so I think it’s time to share some of those thoughts. Some of you might be asking yourselves, “What does he mean by the soul of a game?” [...]

  • Fiction: The Litanies of Redemption and Judgment pt. 4b
    11 September 2007 11:57 pm (0)

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  • Fiction: The Litanies of Redemption and Judgment pt. 4
    10 September 2007 11:50 pm (0)

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  • From the Soap Box: 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons: Revisited
    7 September 2007 6:39 pm (0)

    While my soap box has recently been used elsewhere for the purposes of discussing politics and criminal justice elsewhere, I dragged it back over here to the Basement to address Fourth Edition Dungeons and Dragons some more. While I’ve already aired my concerns about the upcoming edition, I would also like to take a [...]