Various news agencies are reporting that the busy Barnes and Noble at Union Station in Washington DC is about to close, reportedly because Barnes and Noble and the landlord have been unable to agree on the rent. This news of course has brought out the usual gulp will we continue to have brick and mortar bookstores in the future articles, all of ( Read more... )

Today's National Poetry month celebration poem was originally semi-published for a gaming group.

As a few people reading this might remember, I used to run a Vampire Larp (live action role playing game) with coldecho and athenakt. At any given time, we had anywhere from 25 to 55 players showing up; part of the entertainment was wondering who, other than the ( Read more... )

Originally, despite the urgings of a fellow wheelchair user, I wasn't going to say anything public about this at all. It's a pretty painful subject, and I'm not really fond of talking about this stuff in public. (It's the same reason I don't post rejection stats - I never got the point of saying, "Look how many editors turned me down this month!" ( Read more... )

Just had the chance to glance through 4th edition Player's Handbook, Part 2, and some initial thoughts ( Read more... )

So we're playing Deadlands, a kinda Wild West meets zombies and screws over history kinda rpg game, and we're having our final confrontation with a demon (played by gamemaster T) who has taken over a lonesome mentally slow cowboy and turned him into a gambler extraordinaire. (I told you: screws over history ( Read more... )

The love of Halo brings a couple together.

I love the thought of having gaming at a wedding, although in my case it would probably be a Settlers of Catan tournament :)

It's official: my conversations have become terminally geeky ( Read more... )

( If you have no interest in D&D, feel free to skip this. If you have an interest in D&D, warning: lengthy. )

Just in case you haven't heard the news, as many of you have noted, Gary Gygax, the creator of Dungeons and Dragons, has died, unfortunately just before the upcoming release of the latest version of D&D ( Read more... )

Posted to waste time before I head out for shopping trip number one:

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kubera501 Your birthday's Christmas Eve?

Me: Yes.

kubera501 That must suck.

Me: Yes, yes it does.

kubera501 On the bright side, you were born on the dark of the year, so there's a very good chance that when you die, you'll be reborn as a vampire ( Read more... )