Jeff Rients recaps what sounds like a fantastic episode of Challenge of the Superfriends in which Gorilla Grodd, Solomon Grundy, Cheetah and the Riddler venture into an underworld full of lava and monsters in search of a powerful magic item.
Jeff Rients isn't going to run a 4th Edition D&D campaign, BUT IF HE DID, he would set it in Jack Kirby's Fourth World as depicted in the comic series New Gods, Mister Miracle and The Forever People.
As soon as I read this I started mentally reviewing the character classes, powers and feats in 4E, and immediately saw how it would work. I can definitely picture a Kirbyesque ranger from New Genesis squaring off against a demon spawned from the pits of Apokolips. As Liz Lemon would say, I want to go to there.
Maybe there was something in the air during the early '70s. Maybe it was historically inevitable. But it seems way more than convenient coincidence that Gygax and Arneson got their first packet of rules for D&D out the door in 1974, two short years after Nolan Bushnell managed to cobble together a little arcade machine called Pong.We've never had fun quite the same way since.
Penny Arcade's Mike Krahulik does some very clever things for his regular Dungeons and Dragons game, both conceptually and in terms of stagecraft. Here, he sends his party on an adventure modeled on quests from World of WarCraft, on a game board built using craft materials such as LED tea lights, Halloween spiderwebs, plastic toys and shiny trinkets.
