E. Gary Gygax (1938~2008)

All my (A)D&D characters raise their tankards to you from their seats in Valhalla.
Rest in peace, Dungeon Master.

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Dump Stat

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Horrors

The reason for the kickass Kate Beckinsale image a few posts back is that her image will be my avatar in our imminent return to D&D gaming. The game is going to be the supermodule The Return to the Tomb of Horrors. It’s been painstakingly converted from 2e (still my favorite flavor of [A]D&D) over [...]

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Kate

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Memoirs of a Gamer, Part II

This is the second part of a my so-called gaming memoirs. The first part is here.
II. Outside of Home, Early Childhood
At school, the board games of home gave way to card games and dexterity games. The standard physical play of jumprope, hide-and-seek, tag, dueling yo-yos and street games (patintero, tumbang preso and siato for [...]

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Memoirs of a Gamer, Part I

I turn 35 today. For most of those years, my recreation choices have shown a heavy bias towards games. Since I’ve been awat from the journal a while, I decided to do a sort of “memory dump” of the role of gaming in my life. For those of you who read this space for other [...]

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Recent Obituaries

We now say a few words for the recently departed.
Eagle Games is no more.
Eagle’s demise looked messy from the start. An auction of the Eagle brand and its assets was spotted in a newspaper, the auctioneer being a creditor bank. This news spread like wildfire on Boardgamegeek, resulting in posts by Eagle ex-officer Keith Blume [...]

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Podcast Roundup

I’ve picked up (and in some cases already dropped) a few podcasts from my regular rotation. I found that the intermittent release schedules of several of my staples (Boardgames to Go, Boardgame Babylon) and the demise of Geekspeak have left my cupboard dry. I still get most of the Farpoint Media podcasts, headlined by the [...]

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