If you are a gamer it shouldn’t be a secret that your Game Master does a lot for you.  For every hour of your playing time, your GM probably matches that time in session prep, adventure design and trying to anticipate every crazy thing you might do during the game.  They deserve our respect and…

I love television. Growing up in an isolated northern community, television gave me a window onto a wider world. Where else would I have learned that cars could talk, school teachers could become accidental superheroes and scientists could leap through time in their own lifetime?  Later, I would never have learned that a college student…

I’m nearing the busiest and nerdiest point in my week, but I needed to jump on here and remind you all about something fantastically awesome. In its sixth year, Can’t Stop the Serenity season is here again!  In support of Equality Now!, this is probably the best example of geek activism out there (No? Prove…

I am a huge geek. I’m working on becoming a large and then a medium geek, but that is a post for another time.  See, ‘cuz I’m overweight, but I’m getting in shape so I’m getting small…er…let me start again. I am a huge geek.  I have been all my life.  Even before I found…

Welcome to a link-filled post on this rainy, rainy Monday in #yeg.  I am buying time until I finish writing more serious posts, so let’s get on to the distraction! – For those with a bit of a dinosaur fetish (that’s all of us, right?), Japan has you covered.  Nothing says romance like a Jurassic-themed…

Convention season is upon us, gentle geeklings! Actually that statement is false, but false in a good way. Time was, the bulk of gaming, sci-fi and anime cons fell into the spring/summer range, with a few straggling into fall. Such is no longer the case; any weekend can see the opening of another geeky con…

Dear Facebook, This is a hard letter to write.  We’ve been together for years now, and we’ve had some pretty good times.  But I have to be honest with you, because you deserve that much. I think I need to break up with you. I realize that must be tough to hear.  Believe me, it…

If there is anything that identifies someone as a gamer, it is dice. Without them, you could just be a bunch of guys and gals sitting around a table, reading big colourful hardcover books or staring at laptops/datapads. But as soon as the dice come out, everyone knows your secret; you are gamers, your imaginations…