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The past blasted me a couple of times this weekend. The charity site Bundle of Holding offered the old Traveller RPG books from 1981 as PDF for a giveaway price (through July 9th), and I discovered that D&D Classics will sell me the First Edition Dungeons and Dragons books in a similar downloadable form, ( Read more... )

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Computer used: 2009 Mac Pro with 8 GB memory, a 1 GB Apple graphics card, and OS X 10.9 Mavericks

1. Purchase Skyrim on Steam. (By waiting for the right sale, I got it for $5.)
2. Download ThePortingTeam’s Wine wrapper for Skyrim.
3. Follow the installation ( Read more... )

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In 1974, Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson created Dungeons and Dragons. Sometime around 1978, I acquired a copy, and my leisure time pursuits were changed forever. I owe the both of them a debt of gratitude I can never repay (and a debt of finance as well).

They made one mistake, ( Read more... )

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Today, the social media channels are abuzz with the ongoing story that Games Workshop got the e-book of M.C.A. Hogarth’s “Spots the Space Marine” pulled from Amazon on the dubious grounds that no one else is allowed to use “Space Marine” in an e-book. They may or may not have the ( Read more... )

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I have a lot of fun making “DVD covers” in Photoshop for my little video efforts. It’s weird, because they don’t show up in hard-copy very much any more, but it does make the movie files look better when I’m browsing them in a media manager.

To that end, I made this today:


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That's right, I'm not dead yet. I just haven't felt like journalling at all in months - my creativity and ability to string words together has been darn near zero.

But sometimes, going through my old work will inspire me a bit. To that end, here's a video walkthrough of the video game level I designed - an addon for Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge, a ( Read more... )

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So, here's a trailer for the Star Trek MMO coming early next year (y'know, if there aren't any delays, which never happen to MMO releases anyway, right?) Windows-only at this point, so we Mac folks will have to either dual-boot or forget it and just keep giving our money to Blizzard, who's been happy to take it for years ( Read more... )

VTSFFC has announced plans to hold a Technicon in 2010 ( Read more... )

GM to me: "Roll your Body dice, target number 5, and we'll see what the doctor says ( Read more... )