The good news: we have taken a few opportunities in our own way to continue to game.  We have had our D&D group together for a session just recently, which also coincided with Free Comic Book Day and an outing to see Thor (which was much better than I expected).  This day of epic nerdity helped to restoke the fires.  Stupid Ranger has been spending her spare time diving headlong into Dragon Age 2, and she has mentioned more than a few times that she wants to write a review up on that to tell you all of her experiences in Ferelden.  The point of mentioning all this is that you might see a bit of variety to our posts, reflecting the type of nerdy behavior that we’re able to participate in.

The bad news: I had to use most of my vacation time this year to welcome our new addition, so Stupid Ranger and I will not be able to attend Gen-Con this year.  But fear not!  Our very own Vanir will be attending and will be sure to bring his ultra-special roleplaying expertise to the convention center and the surrounding three mile radius.  We will be sure to share liberally his event schedule so you can meet up with him and receive your own free hair trimming to improve your gaming fortune.

Finally, I’d like to thank our loyal readers who have stuck around during this sabbatical.  With any luck we will return to a more frequent blogging schedule as things return to normal and our gaming resumes in earnest.  More soon!

Now through April Fool’s Day, use the coupon code: IMWITHSTUPID to get 10% off any daily deal!

Check it out now, and if you like what you see don’t forget to sign up to get each day’s offer via email.

This has been a fairly large undertaking to get going, and I’m happy to report that we received our first order only 8 minutes after the site going live.  Ed and I happened to be on Skype and the time, and much rejoicing was done over the Interwebs.  The first product that we’re offering is Nobis: The City-States at a 50% discount, brought to us by the fine folks over at Pantheon Press.  Nobis: The City-States was nominated for Best Supplement at the 2010 ENnie Awards, and is a well-regarded high fantasy setting.

This book is only on sale until 11:30 PM EDT, so hurry on over and grab a copy.

While I am very excited about this project, I will limit myself to only posting up information about products that I know will be of interest (i.e. D&D, Pathfinder, etc).  I don’t intend on posting up every item each day here, so if you are really interested in keeping track of what Loot! has to offer, be sure to sign up for our mailing list at the website or via the Gamerati Facebook page.

For awhile today, I was envisioning writing up a fantasy story where a truly great and powerful wizard got severely level-drained and reduced to an embryonic state, but I kept getting too distracted while looking at the sonogram picture to write anything of real entertainment value.

Instead, to commemorate the occasion I have done my duty as Dungeon Master and created a character sheet for our progeny.  I hope you all enjoy it, back to the regularly scheduled programming!

Peer Reviewer: If you’re interested in applying as a peer reviewer, you can submit your information here.  The peer reviewers are responsible for reading entries and assisting with the final decision making process.  Deadline for applications is Dec 31st.

Blog Post Nominations: Nominations for blog posts can be submitted here; nominations close Jan 15th.  The application form can accept 5 URLs, but there isn’t a limit to the number of forms you can submit.

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It’s our second birthday!  This year has seen a lot of changes here at StupidRanger.com… SR and I moved out to Colorado, we got ourselves some wicked awesome PHB2 pre-release action, met ourselves the Geek’s Dream Girl, and had the good fortune to hang with a ton of great RPG Bloggers via our Twitter accounts.  Vanir got himself an artist for the revival of the Evensbrook cartoon, coming When It’s Ready ™.

The past year has been good for our friends.  DungeonMastering won an ENnie, there’s no reason Critical Hits shouldn’t this year.  Our good pals over at Gnome Stew just keep doing that magic stuff that they do.  There are countless other friends that have joined us in the RPG Blogosphere since we last presented the birthday cake, hopefully the coming year will see scores more.

So what’s in store for us as Year 3 dawns?  Honestly, I have no clue.  That’s the fun part.

Here’s to another year gone and a new one to come!  Thanks to all of our readers, fans, and friends that have helped us make it to the esteemed two year mark!

In case you hadn’t heard, Critical Hits was nominated in the Best Website category, along with Dungeon-a-Day, Kobold Quarterly, Mad Brew Labs,  and Obsidian Portal.

Polls close at midnight August.  And if you haven’t voted yet, be sure to vote for Critical Hits!

Voting begins July 24, so be sure to mark your calendars and cast your votes for your favorites.

Check out his post here for more information on participating.

I went through and removed a shameful 2,000 spam comments from old posts, so we should be starting out nice and clean.  Please be sure to check any links that you may have to older posts, the newly improved search feature should help you locate any old articles.

I tried my best to eliminate disruptions, please let us know if you see any oddities in the coming days.