Chris Stevens

In Chris's opinion, the very best vices are dirt bikes, rock music, and gaming, while the very best medicine is fatherhood. If he could just learn to balance them all, he'd live forever. He's much more creative than intelligent, often wakes up belligerent, and ponders many things insignificant. Lastly, in an effort to transform his well-fed body, P90X, Roller Blades, and Food are all laughing at him. And the pain continues.

Take a Break Sunday – The Coolest Stuntman, Inspiration for My Next Character!

 Posted by on June 19, 2011  Filed as: From the Editor's Desk  2 Responses »
Jun 192011
 

It’s Take a Break Sunday again!  Relax, chill, and just take it easy. Whenever I’m feeling down about myself, or need motivation to get into shape, I watch this guy – specifically, this video of this guy – with cool music to boot!  What can I say, in an alternate universe, I’m a kick-ass parkour, free-running stuntman from hell.  I’ve had more than such character!

The Night Priest, A Darker Divine – Steal this Concept

 Posted by on June 13, 2011  Filed as: Steal this Background  2 Responses »
Jun 132011
 
The Night Priest, A Darker Divine - Steal this Concept

Across the many fantasy RPGs, there is a plethora of “divine” character types – cleric, paladin, war priest, avenger, shadow priest, and so on. The Night Priest is not another one of these classes, but an alternate, darker concept or template that can be applied to an already existing one. Its inclusion in the game is most definitely at the discretion of the DM. Basically, [Read the article]

I’m Home, Finally.

 Posted by on June 6, 2011  Filed as: Editorial  8 Responses »
Jun 062011
 
I'm Home, Finally.

Chatty just wrote an article, ending with the question, “What lessons from work and day jobs have given you good lessons for later career changes?” I was all set to answer as a comment on CH, but quickly realized I needed more room.  I normally don’t write long posts, but would appreciate it if you stayed until the end.  This ended up being kind of [Read the article]

Favorite Site of the Month – June/2011

 Posted by on June 1, 2011  Filed as: From the Editor's Desk  4 Responses »
Jun 012011
 
Favorite Site of the Month - June/2011

Wow, talk about getting a head start out of the gate! Without a doubt, there are almost countless gaming blogs out there.  Most of them are pretty cool, but some of them instantly grab your attention.  Whether its a nice clean layout, cool graphics, or quality content, some gaming blogs simply appear as though they’ve been going strong for years… If you haven’t been there, stop [Read the article]

Take a Break Sunday – Your PC can do WHAT?!

 Posted by on May 29, 2011  Filed as: From the Editor's Desk  5 Responses »
May 292011
 
Take a Break Sunday - Your PC can do WHAT?!

It’s Take a Break Sunday, which means chillin and grillin. Today you won’t get any cool RPG content or insightful gamer musings. In my relaxed state I can barely even get this computer to fix my breakfast.  Stupid computer.  However, as I was sitting here contemplating whether I should eat a bowl of Frosted Mini Wheats for breakfast – or a bottle of Gummy Bear [Read the article]

Specialty Horses on Sale! 55%-65% off!

 Posted by on May 26, 2011  Filed as: From the Editor's Desk  No Responses »
May 262011
 
Specialty Horses on Sale! 55%-65% off!

EDIT: Since the original posting, the prices have come down on regular horses. The prices below reflect that. I made a bunch of horses for a special role playing game project awhile back, and they’ve been sitting around ever since.  They are our normal Horse Minis, except that the top-bases are coated in sand (some of them have a little bit of grass).  These are [Read the article]

Playing with FATE: Creating a Huge-Ass-Snake Monster

 Posted by on May 19, 2011  Filed as: Better Gameplay?, Steal this Monster  2 Responses »  Topic(s): , ,
May 192011
 
Playing with FATE: Creating a Huge-Ass-Snake Monster

Welcome back to our Playing with FATE series. Being the GM of any game definitely has it’s rewards, but it also has it’s challenges.  A big part of those challenges includes working those creative muscles – specifically envisioning, designing, and implementing adversaries for your group.  Sure, this can also be a reward, which is why I’m enjoying writing this particular post.  Today, I’m going to [Read the article]

State of the Shack (mucho importante)

 Posted by on May 6, 2011  Filed as: From the Editor's Desk  No Responses »
May 062011
 
State of the Shack (mucho importante)

Okay, not really mucho importante, but I thought I’d take this opportunity between our RPG Site of the Year award and our Snakes Theme Week to tell you about… our Snakes Theme Week!  And other stuff! Next Week A while back, we kind of stumbled into a theme week involving Lizardfolk (Brian Liberge is the man).  It went pretty well, and we decided to do [Read the article]

The 2011 SOTY Winner, Prizes, and Sponsors

 Posted by on May 4, 2011  Filed as: Contests  6 Responses »
May 042011
 
The 2011 SOTY Winner, Prizes, and Sponsors

CRITICAL HITS! Critical Hits wins our RPG Site of the Year award! Every month we feature a great gaming blog as our Favorite Site of the Month.  It’s only natural that we do the same for the year.  So we set up this free contest, got 26 submissions, and started rating each of these great sites in seven different categories: The usefulness of the blog’s [Read the article]

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