Leaving for GenCon in an hour or so. This year I'll be running demos of DragonMech Battles, working the Goodman Games booth, and hopefully having a blast with my geeky companions. I also hope to remember to take some pictures this year so I can report back more accurately ( Read more... )

The Kentucky Highland Ren Faire is over for the year. I'm looking forward to having a weekend or two at home, but I'm sure I'll really miss it after that. It was an excellent year overall...I met lots of fabulous new people.

But this post is really about D&D. Dieter recommends:

• Dungeon Crawl Classics: There's a huge 50% off sale happening on the ( Read more... )

This is a dilemma I've had more than once. I'm introducing someone to the world of comics and graphic novels. We pretty much always start with Sandman, then go to Fables and/or Y: the Last Man. But where do you go from there? I think perhaps Ex Machina or Transmetropolitan? Maybe Preacher (except that I don't really like it) or some HellblazerAnd ( Read more... )

Today I relearned how to use Microsoft Publisher while making the first draft of the DragonMech Battles mech sheet.

DragonMech Battles (in case you haven't heard) is this tabletop miniatures game that walrusjester and I are making. I think the core mechanics of the game are pretty solid now, but there's a lot of work to do in the "tweaking and balancing" ( Read more... )

Oddly accurate.
( Neutral Good Halfling Wizard (5th Level) )

Missy reminded me I haven't updated my list of books read this year in a while. Not that I've read that many more books since my last listing. I know the whole "reading challenge" thing is to read 50 books a year, and I knew I wouldn't make it. It's more just to keep track and give small reviews for friends.

22) The controversial Jonathan Strange ( Read more... )

Nostalgia is a self-defense mechanism. When we feel emotionally, mentally, or physically out-of-sorts, we retreat back to happier times, seeking to forget or at least be distracted from whatever is bothering us. Sometimes we're even nostalgic for events that weren't that great when they happened...we survived whatever it was, now we can laugh at it ( Read more... )

I seem to have unconsciously developed an interest in the Napoleonic Wars. It's nothing I consciously chose to do, but in the last month or so I've finished Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel, read His Majesty's Dragon, and watched the first five of the Richard Sharpe movies. By an odd coincidence, the very day I watched Sharpe's Rifles, the chapter of ( Read more... )

One of the most widely celebrated holidays in the nation of Raddishach Rudog is that of Baggins Day1, 2. It is celebrated every year on September the 22nd in honor of the birthday of the two most famousest of hobbits3. The proper way to celebrate Baggins Day is to go on a bold adventure to somewhere you have never been before, whether that be to a ( Read more... )

I would like to start today's entry with a rolling of the eyes totally unrelated to anything else in this post: *eyeroll ( Read more... )