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Greetings, 2013! Your predecessor, 2012, was a disappointment, mostly due to reasons having nothing to do with this blog. Granted, the Mayans did provide amusement. Fortunately, from the perspective of pop culture and All Things Geek, 2012 was humongous! Remember that stuff that got you ostracized or mocked 20 or 30 years ago? Well, they’re money- ( Read more... )

We continue recapping Rick Maffei’s 4e D&D campaign, set in the world of Áereth (from Goodman Games’ Dungeon Crawl Classics). We are currently at sea aboard Lasandra’s Wave, on route to Punjar, where we hope to find more information about the pirate captain Longshanks and the mysterious metallic triangles that have aroused the murderous interest of ( Read more... )

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After far too long, we recently continued Rick Maffei’s 4e D&D campaign, set in the world of Áereth (from Goodman Games’ Dungeon Crawl Classics) - a cool world that many of us had a hand in creating. A quick recap: Our party has gotten drawn into a wild, murderous search for the treasure of dead pirate Captain Longshanks. During our exploration of ( Read more... )

Ten days ago, mainstream media broke the surprising news that Wizards of the Coast was planning a new edition of Dungeons & Dragons. What was surprising was not Mike Mearls’ announcement itself. In truth, ever since mega-game designer Monte Cook (a key architect of D&D’s 3rd edition) rejoined WotC a few months ago, rumors about a “D&D 5E” had been ( Read more... )

The last recap of Rick's campaign concluded with: "Hopefully, the recap of that session will be done in less time." Yeah, about that ( Read more... )

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