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I’m still easing back to this, so this is going to be a link-heavy update.  Luckily, I think you’ll find the quality of these links more than makes up for my lack of verbosity. *      *     * Before I get into the links, though, I wanted to say a special thank-you…

Sorry for the lack of updates last week, everyone. I couldn’t bring myself to write anything, and it seemed wrong somehow to post any of my filler updates. You see, last week I lost a friend. And that threw me, not just because I won’t get to see him across a gaming table anymore. But…

Last week I posted a link to an article about the resurgence of D&D. Summing up, the story took the position that D&D (along with other RPGs) was making a “comeback”, being rediscovered by a whole generation of once-upon-a-time gamers. Now the thought of gamers coming back to the nerd-fold does put a certain spring…

I have had what amounts to the plague for the last four days, so my apologies for the update gap.  While I regain my strength and health (and take a little of other people’s besides)  here are some things I found interesting around the netter regions: The trailer is out for Captain America: The First…

As I write this, I am watching live video feed of the final burn and approach of a probe called Messenger. Fifteen years ago someone decided that we needed to get a better look at the planet Mercury, closest planet to our sun. Instead of moping about how far away it was, and how hard…

I couldn’t ask for a better day to reboot my blog than Pi Day, arguably the geekiest of geek days. If I was willing to wait I could have held out for “Pi Approximation Day” (22/07) which is coincidentally (or is it…?) my birthday. But putting it off that long tempted the possibility that it…

I firmly believe that every gaming geek needs to attend conventions as often as possible, and not just because I happen to run one. Gaming with your friends is great, and hitting events at your FLGS is also fantastic. But neither one will give you the concentrated gaming goodness of a gaming convention. A convention…

You’re a DM. You’re party has just gone left when they should have gone right, and now they are heading into the underground catacombs (which you haven’t worked on yet) instead of the super-awesome ruins you spent months prepping. Before rocks fall and they all die, why not let Monte Cook and Dungeon a Day…