Category: Geek Culture

  • 3 Tips for Running a Con Game

    Summer con season is in full swing, and that means con gaming! I love playing and running RPGs at cons. It gives me a chance to try out new ideas and game with folks I don’t see or have just met. If you’ve never tried gaming at a con, I highly recommend it as a…

  • My Dice Obsession

    I love dice. “Well duh, Brent. You’re a gamer, of course you love dice.” Well sure, but I reeeeeally love dice. When I was 12 I typed a program into my VIC 20, in Basic, that allowed me to apply a chi-squared test to my dice. I then rolled each of my dice 100 times, entering each…

  • Free RPG Day Reviews, Part 2

    In Part 1 of my Free RPG Day Reviews, I looked at my three favourite small press offerings.  Today I want to look at what the big publishers brought to the table. If you are sitting comfortably, and even if you’re not, we’ll begin. Star Wars Edge of the Empire RPG Quickstart/Shadows of a Black…

  • Dice! (AH-ahhhh!)

    Those what know me know I’m the Venture-Captain for Pathfinder Organized Play here in Edmonton.  A few months ago the Venture Officers around the world hatched a plan to have special PFS dice made.  Chessex ran with our design, and Chris Mullican was the mastermind behind it.  Mine arrived today, and as you can see they…

  • Grab Bag

    Today is going to be a bit of a grab bag on the blog. I had considered not posting until tomorrow as I have a busy day ahead of me, but then I thought, “Nah!”.  Riveting insight into the mind behind Renaissance Dork… I’ll throw up short blurbs about things as they occur to me…

  • Well hello, 21st Century!

    I am not what you might call an early adopter.  Despite good ones being on the market for years I only recently acquired an e-reader (Kobo Touch, for those what are curious), I have a laptop that were it a child would be starting pre-school (or just finishing; God I’m a bad parent), and my…

  • Humpday Links for February 20

    Another Odin’s Day is upon us, and with it the traditional offering of electronic links, as it was in ancient times. But first, the news.  I reached my fundraising goal for the Hair Massacure with a nail-biter of a finish.  A huge thank-you has to go out to everyone who donated to the cause; I just paraded…

  • Humpday Links for January 2

    One thing that won’t be going away in 2013 is Humpday Links, because, a) I’m always finding cool/disturbing/cool stuff on the internets I want to share, and b) I’m lazy.  So love ’em or hate ’em, here are your first Humpday Links of the year! – I need a pair of these (keep it clean,…

  • Happy New Year!

    Obviously the Mayans were wrong, so welcome to 2013!  I want to thank anyone who has subscribed and put up with this blog for the past year.  You guys have been great, and your feedback has helped me be a better blogger. I hope you like the direction things take in the coming year.  If…

  • NOT New Year’s Resolutions

    I don’t make New Year’s resolutions.  Mostly because I don’t believe in them; they’re too much like a yearly deathbed conversion that never takes for most.  But I’m also selfish enough that MY new year starts on my birthday, and that is the day I choose to reflect, assess and make decisions about future changes.…