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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.
A brutal team sport unfolding in a parallel fantasy world based on Warhammer and American football, Blood Bowl invites gamers to form a team of players from races including: Orcs, Elves, Humans, [...]

Ok, you’ve rolled the dice, written down the attributes, picked a race, class and skills. Now you are ready to throw down for some serious dungeon crawling…or are you? Not every night of a gaming session is going to be a hack and slash fest. In fact, quite a bit of time is going to [...]

From our neighboring site, Sector360.net, enjoy the newest video review for Faffing About Creed…I mean Assassin’s Creed. Also enjoy the new layout of the Sector, which will be coming soon to the Basement here!

I got this game about a day or so after it’s release and was extremely excited to play it. [...]

So you’ve been wondering what is gonna be the big bad monster for 4th edition Dungeons and Dragons (beyond the obvious DRAGONS).  Well the answer is short and sweet, well technically it is round and large with a bunch of eyestalks…yup the Beholder!  Here’s the video that showcases it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72LQ6W2W_TU

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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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In Tonight’s Exciting Episode—

I also wanted to take an episodic approach to the adventures. Generally, a gaming session is a Sunday afternoon stretching into evening, all-told about eight hours. Take into account that the players will always be late, break for food, and rant about the state of the world for anywhere [...]

It’s hard to believe that this entire series of articles came about based on the hurried thoughts of last minute game preparation. What has stretched out over weeks in terms of the reports on Basement 51 flew by quickly over the course of only a few days. Before getting to the opening music [...]

One of the greatest obstacles my gaming groups and I face is time. 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. Responsibilities and burdens like children, wives, and jobs relegate gaming to a [...]

Continuing from Monday….

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 a world that has a bit of background to it and I feel that also contributes a great deal towards [...]

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 let everyone [...]

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 a world that has a bit of background to it [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. But my first step in devising a campaign world is a map. For me, it is the map of a [...]

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 [...]

While it seems that I have been stepping up on the soapbox a lot of late, I realize that it all has to do with 4th Edition’s looming presence that has me in an introspective mood. One late, late night (or morning if you prefer) some of us here at the Basement were chatting [...]

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 confusing like Lawful Good Barbarian Dwarf or something like that…it’s all your inner turmoil that is confusing, not the [...]

Since it’s friday, which for many of us means going out with friends, etc…ok, who am I kidding, for most gamers it means the big plans for the nite are gaming…’cause you don’t have to be up tomorrow for work/school/whatever. So in that spirit, I present you with the token sample of Random Pics…

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I was looking forward to writing adventures for only two players. It reminded me of my earliest role-playing game days when it was hard to scare up an entire group in such a small town. (Yes, we’re talking back in the dark ages when notes were kept in spiral-bound notepads, not laptops, and [...]

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. With one week as a [...]

Over the past few months I’ve published a number of articles here at Basement51 about campaign building and customizing worlds for Dungeons & Dragons. Recently we had a gap in our normal gaming routine. Rather than lament another week without gaming, I took the opportunity to experiment with a few very unique concepts [...]

If your new to Shadowrun, or have just never been able to fit it into your budget…buying a new game system is always a roll of the dice Well, Catalyst Labs has been gracious enough to create some great “Quick start rule sets” so that you can give it a try. You can [...]

Found this over on the the Catalyst site today and thought that it was worth reposting here so our readers could be aware of it the truth…

According to Mitch Gitelman, computer game developer FASA Studios has closed their doors. This has sparked a lot of posts around the net saying that “FASA has closed,” or [...]