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Back HomeI’m back from GenCon. It was a great trip, and I got to hang out with great friends and do very fun games.Some highlights include:1. My first foray into True Dungeon. Now I finally understand what everyone’s been raving about. So muc…
Off to GenConI leave in an hour or two for GenCon in Indianapolis. I’m mainly going for fun and friends, but I’ll try to stop by the Paizo booth a few times where they’ve got my new adventure, Curse of the Riven Sky. I’ll also be a presenter at the ENn…
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Flood’s AftermathAfter last week’s short but not so sweet deluge, a lot of people around here had water in their basement. I know what that’s like, and I feel for them. Water’s destructive power is well-known, and the aftermath of a flood can brin…
Flood #2So two years ago, we had a once in a hundred years rainstorm. Our finished basement flooded, the carpet was ruined, we lost a few books (some I still haven’t managed to replace), and the walls and whatnot took a little damage.Last Thursday, we …
Seriously?I just read that a company is marketing a new MRI-based technology to Hollywood that would replace focus groups with actual brain scans of people watching movies, indicating which parts of the movie they like best. The idea being that if peop…
Traveller with Two LsI can no longer remember if I got Traveller or Star Frontiers first. Either way, while I liked Star Frontiers, Traveller made a far more lasting impression on me. Still, what I wanted when I purchased both was very simple. I d…
Lords of CreationWhile on the topic of roleplaying games my friends and I tried because of ads in Dragon magazine, I’d be remiss to forget Lords of Creation. This was during Avalon Hill’s relatively brief foray into rpgs, and it came along just at…
Top SecretTop Secret was a game I really wanted to like. First off, it was made my TSR, and in the early 80s, I expected everything they produced to be pure gold. Second, I loved the genre (or what I knew of it at 13 years old). Third, I…
Why Does Everything Break at Once?In the last couple weeks, I’ve fixed two toilets, the dishwasher, and the clothes dryer. Great that I (and my old pal, the Internet) could deal with all the issues, but man, I hope that’s it for a while. It’s like ever…