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Inq. of the Week: The Stars Are Trekkin’

May 11, 2009 by Dave

Over the weekend, I caught the newest entry in the battle between Star Wars and Star Trek, as the Federation Strikes Back with the new update, featuring a rebooted franchise and cast (with one exception). I was not alone in this, as many showings were sold out as everyone and their mother (literally) sought out the new adventures of Kirk and Spock. Thus, for all you new and old Trek fans alike, to balance the scales of last week, I present to you the following query…

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Movies, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, Television Tagged With: star trek

Inq. of the Week: The Stars are Warring?

May 4, 2009 by Bartoneus

It happens to be May the 4th, and a Monday, so I couldn’t let this go by without doing a Star Wars based inquisition of the week. With what could possibly be one of the corniest geek habits of using dates to make inside jokes, “May the 4th be with you” is apparently something that isn’t going away anytime soon. It occured to me that we have never done a poll about the Star Wars movies, which I am correcting today.

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Movies, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre

Inq. of the Week: Arcane Powered

April 21, 2009 by Dave

While thinking about spell-casting, I got to thinking about spells themselves. I flipped through both the 3rd edition spell list and cross checked a few against the 4e list (there’s some that didn’t make the jump) and compiled what I feel is a pretty good set of classic arcane spells. Especially around the lower levels there are more that saw more play just because of the nature of lower-level spells, but I think this is a pretty good list across all levels.

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 3e, 4e, D&D

Inq. of the Week: Roleplaying with Minis?

April 13, 2009 by Bartoneus

As I mulled over some topics on boardgames, my mind was still wandering back to the D&D game I ran on Saturday, so today we have a topic that spans between D&D and boardgames!

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, D&D, Inquisition of the Week, miniatures, roleplaying, Roleplaying Games

Inq. of the Week: Summer Movies ’09

April 7, 2009 by Bartoneus

Last week The Main Event posted an Inquisition on a topic that I love to discuss, power creep in 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons.  With people voting on which parts of the PHB2 they thought most displayed power creep, 42% of you actually don’t think there’s much power creep in the book at all!  In […]

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Movies Tagged With: GI Joe, harry potter, Inquisition of the Week, star trek, summer movies, terminator, Transformers, wolverine, x-men

Inq. of the Week: Power Sources?

March 16, 2009 by Bartoneus

Hopefully Dave’s curiosity was answered when he wanted to know how many of you went to see Watchmen.  65% of you went to see it opening weekend, while 23% didn’t see it that weekend but plan on seeing it, leaving only 13% who don’t plan on seeing it at all.  I saw the movie at […]

Filed Under: Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, Inquisition of the Week, PHB3, power sources

Inq. of the Week: Who Watched the Watchmen?

March 9, 2009 by Dave

My sense when it was being advertised, and especially after seeing it, is that the movie is something of a tough sell. It’s long, it’s R rated, and it’s fairly high concept as far as movies with this kind of advertising budget go. Early box office receipts are panning that out, and I’m not confident in its word of mouth to those who aren’t fans of the original.

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Inq. of the Week: Watch What you Read?

March 2, 2009 by Bartoneus

This Friday is the release date for the Watchmen movie, and for me now is a good time to be thankful that the lawsuit involving the movie rights didn’t result in this date being pushed back! With that in mind I’m sure we’ll be talking about the movie a lot over the next week or two, and one big thing that I’ve heard a lot about is how many people will see this movie without ever reading or even seeing the comic book.

Filed Under: Comics, Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Movies Tagged With: 300, books, Comics, Inquisition of the Week, movie adaptation, Movies, watchmen

Inq. of the Week: Social Networking

February 23, 2009 by Dave

This week is just another question about getting to know you. In fact, it’s about what you use to get others to know you, and to get to know others!

Filed Under: Inquisition of the Week Tagged With: facebook, friendster, linkedin, myspace, ning, social networking, social networks

Inq. of the Week: 4th Edition Books?

February 16, 2009 by Bartoneus

I began to wonder how many people have bought these books. This led me back to a thought I had when 4E first came out, with the shift of magic items to the Player’s Handbook it became much less important for players that aren’t DMs to buy the Dungeon Master’s Guide and the Monster Manual, and back then I wondered how many people bought all three anyway. These curiosities have now combined into this poll!

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