Last night we spent the evening playing Magic the Gathering because 2 of our players were missing. Our current social contract stipulates that if one player is missing, we play but if two aren’t there, we postpone the game. We’ve had this “clause” for about 5 years and it’s worked pretty well. However, we’ve had […]
Archives for 2008
Fantasy Flight Games Continues Fantasy/Sci-Fi Domination by Partnering with Games Workshop
This is a pretty big deal. To back up a second… Games Workshop has recently been working on consolidating their product line down to their core, while expanding their line of retail shops. This means they were focusing their efforts on selling Warhammer Fantasy Battles, Warhammer 40k, and Lord of the Rings. However, they did […]
Rock Band and Portal: Two Great Tastes Together
Around these parts, Portal has seen a slight insurgence, thanks to me lending Bartoneus and Sucilaria The Orange Box. I actually had to get them to shut it down at a party last Saturday so that I could feed my Rock Band addiction and caterwaul through my rendition of Ballroom Blitz. This actually allowed them […]
Martial Arts + Chinese Bear + Jack Black = COOL!
Yeah I’m in a YouTube mood… John, I want you to stat me up a Kung Fu Panda in Silvervine for Gen Con, not negociable!
The Guild, a WoW micro Sitcom.
It’s probably old hat for a lot of you but a few weeks ago, friends of mine stumbled onto that… Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 You can find the next 7 here. I took a day off today (yay!) but the D&D game was cancelled because of lack of two players…. I guess I’ll […]
Robin’s Laws Revisited: Part 3, Picking up your set of rules
This post is part of a series that explores Robin Laws’ seminal work on GMing, Robin’s Laws of Good Gamemastering and adds my thoughts on the same subject. This time, we tackle choosing a Rule set which is very actual since we’re at the butt end of D&D’s current edition. Part 1 can be found […]
Guest Post over at Dungeonmastering.com
Good morning. If you aren’t already a regular reader of Yax’ Dungeonmastering blog, I invite you to head over there for a guest post I wrote about the OGL license. The DNDreview blog already added a few comments on it that are very interesting. So feel free to comment over there as I get the […]
Of Martians and JJ Abrams
One day, a week or two ago, I came across this story about images sent back from the Mars Spirit Rover. What you see to the right is a small version of a panorama taken at a crater on Mars from this mission, and you can see a super high quality version at Nasa’s site […]
DM Chronicles: The legend of the Broken Dice, Session 2, Part 2
See part 1 here. Before getting into the actual dungeon crawl, as pointed out by Yan in the comments yesterday, I realized that PM was the only PC moving at a speed of 4 squares (20′). He was wearing Scale Mail, which has the same AC bonus as a Chain Shirt, only cheaper and bulkier. […]
“TETSUO!” “TITANIC!”
Did not see that one coming… Leonardo DiCaprio is set to produce a live-action version of anime classic Akira. Technology may have finally caught up to the point where doing live-action Akira is more feasible than it once was. But how faithful will it be to the original? Who will direct? Will DiCaprio take a […]
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