Other than the occasional post here and there, I haven’t been too talkative on the internets at all, so I figured I would bring anyone who cares up to speed. So here’s the highlights:

- Back last year I was named the Head of Programming for ConFusion 2013: Immortal ConFusion, and that has been ramping up steadily all year. We changed hotels to ( Read more... )

1. I’ve seen in myself the tendency to go through phases with things; not with the bright burning intensity of fannish devotion or anything, but with a sort of inertia that gets me moving in one direction or another for a while until something comes along to disrupt it. It’s one of the reasons I think I have a hard time getting into a serious ( Read more... )

Death first, then song.

Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, died this week, and though I wasn’t as steeped in the D&D culture as my friends who grew up playing it, I’m terribly sad to see him go. Tributes abound, but my favorite are Rich Burlew’s Order of the Stick and Penny Arcade’s. There’s also an e-mail floating around that list a ( Read more... )

The irreplaceable Jonathon McCalmont of SF Diplomat took issue the other day with my enthusiasm for the new Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition (complete with nifty, Web 2.0 interactivity built-in!) Well, okay, he didn’t take issue with my enthusiasm as such, just the concepts that I’m so enthusiastic about.

And I get, very much, what he’s saying. ( Read more... )

Back when I was a wee little tyke, I heard much about the evils of Dungeons & Dragons. When I got to high school, I knew some dudes at school who were kind of into it (and very smart and mostly well-adjusted, so I started having my doubts about the evil-ness of it). The bast part of that arrangement was one of them lent me this supplemental book ( Read more... )