…is to become Saturday morning cartoon… !? Watchmen is a serious, serious bit of graphic novel, even with meta-powered individuals populating its story. Written by psychedelically charged soul-delver Alan Moore, it is a seminal piece of literature, and I might almost be excited to see them release a movie of it this week. But I […]
Archives for 2009
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-03-07
Fiery Dragon’s 4e Battlebox released A Design History of Pac-Man This month’s RPG blog carnival is WAR! Answer the question, “what is it good for?”
Catch that Wagon: Return to the Mega-Dungeon
I’ve been trying to write that post all day long and I keep getting distracted… I can feel it coming.. one of my dreaded/beloved consciousness-devouring, depression-killing creative surges… I have dungeons on my mind. More precisely, I think about Mega-Dungeons, a lot. Those huge, multi-leveled sprawling complex that were at the core of the first […]
Watchmen Weekend Critical Bits
An illustrated history of Watchmen from page to screen Watchmen Sketchbook How The Studios Would Have Ended Watchmen (A Storyboard)
Review: “Watchmen”
It’s funny for a movie that is supposed to be so faithful to the book (that I have read through many, many times) that I did my best to avoid spoilers. I wanted to dive in and make the comparisons myself, without hearing what critics have to say. I also try very hard to avoid being the nitpicky fan who dislikes any deviation from the source material: after all, different media have different challenges. Watchmen does a very good job of conveying the story (and most of the important plot beats) of the original work, and for that, I really enjoyed seeing it onscreen.
How Not to Review ‘Watchmen’
I just wanted to highlight something I read today in the lunch room at work, our local newspaper the Washington Post had a review of the movie Watchmen on the front page of the Style section today with the title “Blight Watchmen: Graphic Novel’s Edge is Dulled in Adaptation”. Written by Philip Kennicot, it’s an […]
Yet another PHB2 post (Better get used to it)
I join my voice to those who already have started bragging posting about having received pre-market copies of the Dungeons and Dragons Players Handbook 2 from Wizards of the Coast. As I was leaving with my family today for some early season Sugar Shacking (it’s not as dirty as it sounds, unless you eat without […]
“Player’s Handbook 2”: I haz it
Myself, along with a number of other excellent bloggers, have received preview copies of PHB2. We are all working together to put together a pretty big event around it starting March 13th, and hopefully a series of other supplementary articles about the release. In the meantime, however, I am allowed to answer questions. The ground […]
Remembering Gygax Through Friendship
One year ago, shortly after posting about GM’s Day, I saw the news that shocked and saddened me: Gary Gygax had left us. Being the geeks that we are, we made all kinds of metaphors. (Gone to travel the outer planes is probably my favorite). Tributes began to roll in, not just from us RPG […]
A Special day and Family Time
Happy GM day to all. I know that today marks both the annual day dedicated to Gamemasters all around the planet and it also happens to be the 1st anniversary of Gary Gygax departure. I owe him a lot and he is in my thoughts. I’m not online much this week because I decided to […]
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