He gave us many iconic stories and novels over his life and I remember reading some of them as a kid as part of my “sci-fi education.” Below is a great clip of him at Caltech on the eve of Mariner 9 going into orbit around Mars. I would have given anything to be in that…
Can I add new campaign to that? The folks over at Gnome Stew have issued a challenge to gamers this year – run a new game. Most will take that challenge as a reason to go out and buy a new game system but in my case I’m using it as the catalyst to finally…
Another year has passed and of Dice and Dragons has reached the age of six – Happy Birthday! One of the nice things about birthdays is that they come every year and you can make them as special or as bland as you want. Over the last six years I’ve mentioned this milestone on occasion,…
No, there’s no punchline coming, and to be honest there wasn’t a bar but there was a fighter, wizard, and bard involved – played by my three children. That’s right the next generation of my clan has started their journey into role-playing games and it was both a high point and a low point so…
I mentioned on Google+ last night I’ve decided that the categories and post tags on this site needed an overhaul and I’ve already started that work and wanted to pass that information along. Please bear with me while I work through this process. While there aren’t many posts to work with, roughly 260, it is…
For gamers around the world today is a special day as it celebrates the birth of Gary Gygax the man most consider the father of role-playing games and the original Dungeon Master. When Gary was called from the gaming table in 2008 many of us mourned his passing but today should be a day of…
