ZINES | THE VAST IN THE DARK – The first physical copy of a #Zinequest3 zine arrived today: “The Vast in the Dark: A zine about exploring dark and alien megastructures of an infinite realm.” (see featured photo). Now that the[…]
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Author: Ken Newquist
Trail to Philmont – January/February 2021
January and February of 2021 were tough. The short days, the post-Christmas/holidays pandemic surge, and walls of snow from a 3+ foot blizzard made this one of the hardest stretches on the trail to Philmont. It was hard to stay[…]
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Geek Archeology: World Space Modeling Championships 1980 Patch
My family is slowly helping organize and clean out my parents’ garage and basement. As we do so, we’re coming across all manner of treasures. One of them is the World Space Modeling Championships 1980 patch, pictured here with several[…]
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Looking back on ZineQuest 3
ZineQuest3 is officially over. Zines funded by the initiative are counting their cash, revising their project plans, and, in a few cases, starting to ship PDFs of their product. Going into ZineQuest3, I knew I wanted to back it at[…]
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RPO Replay: Tomb of Horrors
The Ready Player One Replay is an exploration of the games that inspired the novel Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Quote But then, during the course of my research, I discovered an old Dungeons & Dragons supplement called Tomb of Horrors, which had[…]
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RPO Replay: Zaxxon
The Ready Player One Replay is an exploration of the games that inspired the novel Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Quote I downloaded every game mentioned or referenced in the Almanac, from Akalabeth to Zaxxon. — Ready Player One p. 64 Game Play Zaxxon was the[…]
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@NuketownSF: Masters of Umdaar, Agents of BAMF, Zeneography, Project Terminus, More ZineQuest
A recap of NuketownSF’s tweets for the week of February 21, 2021. GAMES | MASTERS OF UMDAAR is a Fate Accelerated setting inspired by John Carter of Mars, Flash Gordon, He-Man, and Thundercats. Sounds like great fodder for a one-shot or double-shot[…]
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@NuketownSF: More Zinequest 3, X of Swords, Wanda Vision, FATE Condensed
A recap of NuketownSF’s tweets for the week of February 15, 2021. ZINEQUEST | HINTERLAND: PEOPLES AND PERILS – As someone running a hexcrawl, this zine – which focuses on wilderness exploration – is highly appealing. It features 19 random encounters[…]
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RPO Replay: Akalabeth
The Ready Player One Replay is an exploration of the games that inspired the novel Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Quote I downloaded every game mentioned or referenced in the Almanac, from Akalabeth to Zaxxon. — Ready Player One p. 64 Game Play Akalabeth: World[…]
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Radio Active #95: Into the Spider-Verse
Nuketown returns in a somewhat more timely manner as I take a break from my X-men fandom to delve into the Spider-verse. Plus, I talk about my winter reading list, take a look at some new features at Nuketown, and[…]
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