Well... looks like Dave Arneson has passed away. He's the guy who put the dungeon into Dungeons & Dragons, pretty much, and without him, I'd be in an entirely different industry and would have made entirely different friends, I suspect. Interesting when you think of it that way, I guess ( Read more... )

It's my least favorite part of my favorite season of the year: Snow day. It's not a lot... maybe an inch or two, but it's enough to make driving treacherous. Not only due to the icy roads + the frequent steep hills, but because everyone else on the road is coping with the same problem. Snow's a magnifier; it magnifies bad drivers' habits, and there ( Read more... )

So I took the day off from work today. I was planning on getting a lot of errands done ( Read more... )

Looks like WotC's laid off a fair number of folks. Some of them people I've worked with and who've written for me. A few who are good friends.

Today sucks. 

Earlier today, Fable 2 came out so I bought it ( Read more... )

I don't see this silly little project going for much longer. But that may just be because I'm in a crummy mood. My car died, you see. And that means it's time for a new car. Which will probably be happening tomorrow.

So yeah. That's why Project Dinosaur #3 is of a Sad Dinosaur.

Name three of your favorite genre (fantasy/horror/sci-fi) movies made between 1980 and today. Chances are good that the creatures and special effects in at least one of those movies was designed or influenced by Stan Winston ( Read more... )

So, I had a chance, finally, to look through the 4th edition D&D books yesterday, and it only took a couple of pages for me to find something that boggled, insulted, and disappointed me ( Read more... )

E. Gary Gygax, the co-creator of D&D, and one of my personal heroes, is dead ( Read more... )

So WotC's released half of the first adventure for the online incarnation of Dungeon, the magazine I've edited for four plus years. As it works out, since my editing run coincided pretty much exactly with the magazine's transition to a monthly periodical (from bimonthly), I ended up working on issues 103 to 150. That's nearly a third of the ( Read more... )