Writer, game designer and creator of the Eberron campaign setting, Keith Baker, is running a cool contest on his blog. The winner will win a spot at his game table at GenCon 2010 where he will be running a 4E Eberron game. The game has been scheduled for Sunday, August 8th at 11:00 AM.

Want to find out about the newest updates for 4th edition Dungeons & Dragons, but don’t have the time to read the entire document. We’ve got the skinny on what the latest 4E updates mean to your game. We have created an summary of the latest changes and an index. The biggest shocker? Magic Missile is now auto-hit!

D&D Encounters have finally arrived in downtown Seattle. I’ll be running a weekly D&D Encounters: Dark Sun Season 2 game at Gamma Ray Games on Wednesday nights at 6:30PM. I’m looking forward to meeting some new gamers.

Follow this link to add the event to your Google calendar.

Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center has finally released a game play demo of Surfacescapes. They have editted the video down to twenty minutes. I love the sedated voiceover on top of the laughing and gaming chatter in the background. Stop everything and check out this video.

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If you’ve ever wanted to get Kobold Quarterly, this is your chance. Kobold Quarterly is offering half price PDF subscriptions through April 10th. That’s $8.75 for a full year of PDF issues! Go to the KQ Store, add the 4 issue PDF subscription to your cart and use code DTKQ50 at checkout. Your total will come to $8.75.

Microsoft’s Surface platform looks ready to revolutionize tabletop gaming. Here are some exclusive new pictures of Dungeons and Dragons being played on Surface at PAX East. I’m getting pretty excited to try this out myself. Hopefully, there will be a Surface installation at PAX Prime…

SceneSound has released a new version. I had a chance to poke around with it and the new features look interesting. Each sound can now have special effects: echo, flanger, tempo, and pitch. A gain option has been introduced to boost the volume of audio files that were recorded too low. The random feature has been fine tuned to give you more control over which random bank files…

Allesandro Sacco put up a great new interview with Larry Elmore on the Acaeum forums. “Larry Elmore is purely and simply one of the best fantasy artists ever and surely one of my favourites. Many, many gamers remember him for the great covers and artwork done for TSR Inc and, especially in Italy, for his amazing work on the Classic Dungeons & Dragons game (from Basic to Immortal…

This has to be the greatest game room I’ve ever seen. From the builder:
“I have been working on and off for about 2 years building our “D&D ROOM” to hold most of our collection and give us a cool place to play. I did 99.9% of the work myself with just a bit of help in the attic from my brother Shawn. All lighting is controlled by the DM via a…