Goodbye Gary . . . . .

Looking through my news feeds this morning there are many, many news articles and posts about the passing of gaming icon Gary Gygax and although I mentioned it yesterday the magnitude of this event and what he met to all of us didn’t really strike me until late last night and this morning. While I…

A legend passes . . . . . Farewell Gary Gygax

It is with sadness that I pass along this bit of news to those that may not have heard yet – Gary Gygax one of the co-creators of D&D has passed away. I think I can speak for many that without him our hobby and outlook on gaming would be very different and he will…

My first night without dice

For some time now I’ve been using my laptop at the gaming table – primarily as a reference tool. I’ve got a copy of the SRD available on it, keep my characters in a spreadsheet and of course it gives me the opportunity to pull information from the web during the game. One of the…

4E D&D Rules Primer Released

As much as I try to stay away from the 4th Edition discussions that are out there, I felt I needed to pass along that the folks over at Wizards have released a Rules Primer for those of us that will not be able to attend D&D Experience 2008. You can pull a copy from…

D&D Designers Answer Questions

I know that many of us are reading a lot about the coming of 4E between the WoTC site itself and the numerous gaming blogs that are covering it add to that growing list the folks at Slashdot. Over at Slashdot they’ve posted the Q&A they had with them and are going to pass along…

Snow covered cemetery

Realms of Rylon Postmortem – The Good

This is the second post in my series – be sure to check out the first post, Realms of Rylon – The Postmortem. When most folks start out reviewing something they’ve done, there seems to be an instinctive need to focus on those aspects that might seem negative or needing improvement, so I’ve decided to…