Anyone interested in roleplaying games (and anyone not interested in RPGs probably should find a better LJ to follow, to be honest) would have heard the news last week that, roughly three years after releasing the 4th edition of Dungeons and Dragons, Wizards of the Coast/Hasbro is gearing up to release a new edition in the next 12-18 months, ( Read more... )

So a while ago, I wrote a long diatribe about the impending DC Comics reboot and my thoughts upon it. (And in the process apparently decided that I would mainly use LJ for sporadic posts about geek stuff, since that's how this journal has looked since then, but I digress.)

Well, the reboot is no longer impending; it kicked it at the start of ( Read more... )

So I've finally started watching the new series of Doctor Who. No, not new in the Matt Smith sense; new in the overall sense. I haven't watched any Who since the no-longer-mentioned Paul McGann made-for-TV movie, so I'm starting fresh with the Christopher Eccleston run.

I know, I know, terrible nerd, can't believe you don't sleep with the DVDs under ( Read more... )

WARNING: This is a VERY long essay/diatribe/waste of electrons about modern superhero comics. If such things do not interest you, I advise staying away.

If you’ve been living under a rock - or, more likely, living a well-adjusted life that doesn’t involve spending a significant chunk of each day reading about superhero comics on the internet - you ( Read more... )

Recently I've been re-reading Ed Brubaker's run on Captain America, from his kick-off with the 'Winter Soldier' storyline through the death of Steve Rogers up to his return in Captain America Reborn. So let's talk for a bit about how good these comics are. Because seriously, guys, these are fucking great comics, and I know how surprising it is to ( Read more... )

Because this is my low-stress weekend off, I've taken a bit of spare time (okay, about 4-5 hours) catching up on something I've meant to do for ages - updating the Obsidian Portal page and wiki for my Exile Empire campaign.

If you're interested in the game, go have a look - lots of new wiki pages for campaign elements and NPCs, along with art, and ( Read more... )

As previously mentioned, I spent the weekend in Adelaide with blithespirit, where our main activity was dusting off the old toons and playing some World of Warcraft, which I haven't touched in about three years.

It's changed quite a lot. Not just mechanically, although all my old characters had to be respecced from the ground up, and all their old quests had ( Read more... )

I've been doing a lot of gaming in the last 12 months - which is great, as I went through a few lean years after moving to Melbourne. Right now I have my ongoing Eberron campaign and my new limited-duration Tribulation game - but apparently that wasn't enough, as on Sunday I started running yet another 4E D&D game.

The key difference here is that I' ( Read more... )

Saw Thor last night. It was alright.

Want more than that? Check behind the cut; there aren't spoilers per se, but I figured it'd be polite.

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So of course, after posting about how I needed to put aside video games and get back to serious writing, I spent most of this weekend replaying Dragon Age.

Don't look at me like that. DA 2 comes out soon, and there's a whole pile of DLC I haven't played yet, and I want to refamiliarize myself with the game and its setting/feel, after last playing it ( Read more... )