Ken Newquist, Author at Nuketown

@NuketownSF: Married Spider-People, Sci-Fi Tombs, Geeky Podcasts, The High Republic

August 1, 2021May 23, 2021 by Ken Newquist

Three people in spider uniforms swing toward the viewer.

A recap of NuketownSF’s tweets for the week of May 16, 2021. RPG | WORLDS WITHOUT A NUMBER – A fantasy version of Stars without Number that bills itself as “gritty, hard-edged adventure in the fathomless future of the Latter Earth, a fantastic realm of time-lost sorcery, savage foes, and barbaric splendor.” https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/348791/Worlds-Without-Number?src=hottest COMICS AND COFFEE … Read more

Venture into the Lair of Secrets podcast

May 27, 2024May 6, 2021 by Ken Newquist

My friend David Moore (formerly of The Gamemaster’s Show and After Serenity) and I recently launched the Lair of Secrets podcast. It’s a podcast about gaming and being a geek by two forty-something geek dads. So far we have seven episodes out, with new ones being released on a regular basis (approximately weekly, give or take a week). S1E1 … Read more

Trail to Philmont, March 2021

January 7, 2023May 3, 2021 by Ken Newquist

The Trail to Philmont started moving a lot faster – and got a lot more real – in March 2021. As I mentioned in the February update, during the winter we lost four members of our crew to COVID concerns. That left us with six participants, and two below the minimum crew size of eight. … Read more

Radio Active #96: Go Go Gadget!

May 27, 2024April 29, 2021 by Ken Newquist

A variety of electronic devices including a Kindle Paperwhite, Airpods, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo 3DS, and a MacBook Pro laptop

In this episode, I say goodbye to a canine friend and welcome a new one, explore dungeons, and blast aliens in Nuketown’s Ready Player One Replay. I introduce my new side gig podcast, the Lair of Secrets, the podcast about gaming and being a geek by two forty-something geek dads. Finally, I geek out about … Read more

@NuketownSF: ZineQuest updates, Field Guid to Memory, Mystic Mazes, Heroes at Home

June 20, 2021April 9, 2021 by Ken Newquist

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 Kickstarter is over, you can purchase it at itch.io. GAMES | RESIDENT EVIL – Vice looks … Read more

Trail to Philmont – January/February 2021

April 6, 2021 by Ken Newquist

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 motivated, and it got harder when subsequent storms dumped more snow on our region. At … Read more

Geek Archeology: World Space Modeling Championships 1980 Patch

June 20, 2021April 4, 2021 by Ken Newquist

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 of the model rockets that my dad built, plus a promotional model rocket flyer published … Read more

Looking back on ZineQuest 3

June 20, 2021March 30, 2021 by Ken Newquist

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 a higher level than the previous year. In 2020, I backed three zines, two digital, … Read more

Tomb of Horrors – Ready Player One Replay

June 7, 2023March 18, 2021 by Ken Newquist

Adventurers stumble down an unstable ramp in the Tomb of Horrors

Tomb of Horrors is one of the most famous modules for Dungeons & Dragons and plays a major role in Ready Player One. Originally created as a tournament module for the Origins game convention, it went on to become a legendarily deadly published adventure for Dungeons & Dragons. Gary Gygax, one of the creators of D&D, created the module … Read more

RPO Replay: Zaxxon

June 20, 2021March 12, 2021 by Ken Newquist

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 world’s first isometric shooter arcade game. The isometric approach provided a 3D-rendered view of a … Read more