Character Creator Art

The new D&D Character Creator is in open beta (and therefore available to those without a subscription), but does anyone care?  It looks good if you’re able to use it (its Windows only) and seems to do the trick, but will the program stay current with new release (which was the deathknell for the 3.0 version of the character creator)?  And how dedicated is Wizards to this initiative after the layoff of Randy Buehler (all around nice guy and head of their digital gaming division)?  I was an early adopter for 4E and a pretty unapologetic fanboy, but I just don’t understand what WotC is doing any more…

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KB Toys filed Chapter 11 and will liquidate all of its assets, owing to the economic climate. This follows a less drastic bankruptcy filing in 2005 and the closing of hundreds of stores.

This strikes me as rather odd, considering that most sources say that toys and games are having a boom holiday sale.

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DISC is a personality profile system developed in 1928 by William Moulton Marston. DISC is now a board game, from Stecin Leadership Solutions.

It’s roll, move, trivia, and it’s $225.

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Four moms and their 13 kids were kicked out of a Bletchley IKEA after playing board games around two tables for two hours on a series of Monday afternoons.

According to one of the moms, the area was nearly empty, so it wasn’t like they were taking up space that other patrons could have been using. And they were also ordering food and drink.

The personnel came up with some stupid reasons, and eventually decided to go with “gambling” in order to kick them out.

After emails to every homeschooling group in the country and letters to the senior IKEA management, the manager apologized and invited them back.

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Manny Alvarez of Tampa Bay is producing 100 limited handcrafted boards of his new game Gatos, which is a Chess variant played on a diagonal board. It includes some different pieces with variant movements.

He’s trying to get it published.

This is not the first diagonal chess variant, by the way (or, rather, by a long shot).

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The BC Local features Vancouver local David Strutt from Imperial Hobbies.

And describes IH’s best-sellers, which include The Settlers of Catan, Monster Apocalypse, Wings of War, and Mighty Muggs, as well as David’s top five games, which are Ticket to Ride, Hey That’s My Fish, Cloud 9, Zooloretto, and Duck Duck Bruce.

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Yeah, I think it’s Go Fish.

The German Automotive Press, aka Motor-Informations-Dienst (mid), awards a TOPautos prize every year. This year they put together a card game with “the four best-placed vehicles in each of the eight categories, where each card features a photo and the technical data of one of these vehicles.”

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Virgin Atlantic sent the board game Anti-Monopoly as Christmas gifts to its friends, associates, and contacts.

It’s a dig at British Airways who is set to swallow up Qantas.

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Cityism is a trivia game abou the city of Austin. It has a few silly party elements throw into it, because … just because.

You can buy the game, or just the the cards.

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A recent story in the Salt Lake Tribune reminds console game users that there are some fun cheap alternatives to games with a sixty dollar price tag:  downloadable games.  The entire story is availabe at

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_11176802

World of Goo, downloadable for 15 dollars

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