Tag: star wars

  • RPGaDay Roundup, Part 2

    The RPGaDay Roundup continues! If you’re just joing us, Part 1 is here. Let’s continue: Day 13: Most Memorable Character Death When I was in high school, I had a Paladin I had managed to get up to 16th level. I started that guy in junior high school, and at that time it was my…

  • Nerding Up the Weekend!

    I hope those of you not attending PAX and Dragon*Con are still finding a way to nerd up your weekend. Me? Tonight I’m getting together with some friends to read aloud William Shakespeare’s Star Wars, by Ian Doescher. If you haven’t read it yet, I urge you to get on it. It is just as…

  • 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…

  • Humpday Links for June 19

    Another week, another Humpday. And that means links! At least it does if you’re here, I have no idea what it means anywhere else. – Chuck Wendig wrote a great piece about sexism in publishing, and then some follow-up pieces. – For shame, Kickstarter! For shame! – I’d read these pulp Star Wars books. I’d…

  • Humpday Links for March 6

    March in Edmonton has come in like some sort of lamb/lion hybrid, as I’ve come to expect from the prairies under global warming.  Before we get too overwhelmed with thoughts of the impending weatherpocalypse, let us enjoy these special links from around the internet. – If you’re a gamer popping the big question, why not…

  • Humpday Links for May 30

    May comes to an end and we slide into June, just in time for the weekend.  Have some links to get you through, and then get ready for summer! – If you’re like me and you spend a lot of time contemplating the coming zombie apocalypse, you might want to check out these homes. –…

  • Humpday Links for April 18

    Another Wednesday, another week come and almost gone.  If only there were some way to pass the time until the inevitable slide into the weekend.  Some listing of amusing and/or thought-provoking links, perhaps… – I’ve posted this here before, but it bears repeating: you’re all going to see Knights of Badassdom, right? RIGHT!? – If…

  • Humpday Links for January 25

    Happy Robert Burns Day!  While you wait for your haggis to cook I hope you’ll enjoy these wee timorous links… – It is time once again for Paizo’s RPG Superstar Challenge, and the 32 competitors have been chosen! – I’ve long suspected that Mark Wahlberg is America’s secret weapon…now I know for sure. – Nothing…

  • Renaissance Dork’s Gift Suggestions

    Yesterday I gave you my advice on the best way to shop for the geek in your life.  Following those should make your geek shopping experience a little easier, and result in happiness on Thanksmasween Day.  “But Renaissance Dork”, you ask, “What if I don’t have time to absorb 500+ words of shopping theory?  Can’t…

  • Humpday Links for October 5

    Fall is here in the Great Metropolitan Republic of Edmonton, and it has brought us all the grey skies and rain.  So I feel it incumbent upon me to provide you with a particularly entertaining and distracting series of links this week.  I think I have done so, but only you, my tens of readers,…