Leonine Roar

 Wonderful review of my Faster Combat project with Johnn Four over at Wired.com this week! 

It’s pretty cool when a magazine you’ve subscribed to for a few years runs a review of one of your projects on their site!

Check it out here!  And if you like a dash of tech news, games, weird, humor and all sorts of topics and randomness, you’ll probably like swimming around other GeekDad and Wired.com content for a bit too.  Enjoy!

Huge news for Leonine Roar and Faster Combat!

First, make sure to head over to Stuffer Shack’s series of 2012 Site of the Year posts so you can learn about and vote on your favorite sites! 

I’d like to thank Stuffer Shack and Tourq for the nomination among so many tremendous D&D and RPG blogs.  And huge thanks go out to our entire community of gamers, including all my Leonine Roar readers and followers who love that fine balance of crunch and flavor as much as I do.  You guys and girls rock!

Second, in case you missed it, FasterCombat.com, my GM-friendly collaboration with Johnn Four, has also been nominated for a 2012 ENnie!  Outstanding GM community there and I’ve loved writing all those time-saving lessons and activities to bring your combats to new heights of both efficiency and excitement.

So drop everything – even your dice! – and go vote now for Leonine Roar and Faster Combat! 

Thanks everyone and have a blast this weekend at your games!

– Kilsek (Tony Medeiros)

Leap Day!  Is there a more perfect day to celebrate the 1st anniversary of Leonine Roar?

My fellow Forgotten Realms fans also know this is a day of special pacts, and there is no pact I’m prouder of than the one I made in creating my very own D&D blog just over a year ago.

It’s been such a blast and opened so many doors – both creatively and professionally.  My opportunities to help and share with other players and GMs have been awesome here, at Faster Combat and beyond.  I’m so very fortunate and grateful!

To all my readers and fans, thank you so much for following Leonine Roar and being just as passionate about the balance of creativity and crunch that makes D&D and all RPGs the unique games they are!

Just like you, I love this game!

Looking to pounce on some of Leonine Roar’s most popular articles over the past year?  You’ll find a couple of helpful lists right here:

• Milestone: 100 D&D Articles
• Milestone: 50 D&D Articles

It’s true, from Roving Band of Misfits and Sarah Darkmagic to CNN and Forbes, it’s true: Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition is coming!

I wondered (like a lot of you) where Rob Schwalb had been the last several months.  Yes, he posted about getting back to living a more balanced, healthier life – something I’m absolutely huge on myself – but he also gave away the big secret: he’d been working on 5e!

Remember when Mike Mearls and Monte Cook began talking more and more about all the different editions of D&D?  I especially enjoyed Mearls’ modular approach to D&D: it could truly be a wonderfully versatile thing.

See, D&D’s been around long enough, with polar opposite styles and complexity and everything in between.  So a modular D&D 5th edition doesn’t come as a surprise.  In fact, it could be quite awesome.  But don’t talk my word for it – my favorite 5e snippet was this one from Robert Schwalb’s site:

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  Feast your eyes on the 100th D&D article on Leonine Roar! 

I would like to once again extend a huge, sincere thank you to all of you who read and subscribe to Leonine Roar, as well as all of you who follow me and the site on Twitter.  

I love to write about and play D&D and I love that you’ve made this one of your favorite spots for ideas to amp up your games, whether you play, DM or do both, like me. 

How has Leonine Roar grown since its first 50 articles?  Here’s just two of the coolest happenings:

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