Looks like Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition is coming; there’s an GenCon event at 6:30 p.m., Aug. 167 in the Sagamore Ballroom. In the meantime, the Dungeons & Dragons home page is a countdown clock labeled “4Dventure”. I was at the 3.0 announcement in 1999, and that makes me want to go to this event … Read more
It’s been five years since I’ve been to GenCon. A lot has happened since then — the convention’s moved from Milwaukee to Indianapolis. I’ve had two kids. I’ve changed jobs. And I’ve found myself wanting to play games that aren’t Dungeons & Dragons. I’ll end up carrying about as many books as I did for … Read more
Ken Newquist, Nuketown’s editor, will be at GenCon 2007 from Wednesday, Aug. 15 through Sunday, Aug. 19. This category will be updated with blog posts, game news, photo galleries, twitters, and (hopefully) a podcast during the convention. “GenCon 2007” category on Nuketown Ken’s schedule at Nuketown Nuketown on Twitter GenCon 2007 photo gallery on Flickr … Read more
My schedule for GenCon is coming into phase with reality as I figure out exactly what games I’ll be playing, who I’m meeting with, and when I’ll be doing it all. The biggest changes to my schedule are the addition of Spirit of the Century and Battlestar Galactica at the expense of my Dungeons & … Read more
Go to the bathroom of a non-geek, and you’ll probably find some fairly benign reading material — maybe a copy of Field and Stream, may be Real Simple, maybe the nearly-ubiquitous Chicken Soup for the [insert demographic here] Soul. Not me. I’ve got The Bloody Crown of Conan, a collection of three Robert E. Howard … Read more
Steve Eley of Escape Pod lays down his Ten Laws of Twitter. #1 is probably the best: RESPECT. Every message consumes people’s time. Don’t twitter what you wouldn’t be happy to spend 10 seconds of your own life reading. But they’re all worth reading, and are applicable to more than just Twitter — Facebook wall … Read more
Reason has posted a good article discussing the merits of New York City Department of Education Ronald G. Fryer’s plan to give kids monetary bonuses for both taking and scoring well on academic tests. Some have praised the plan as providing much needed incentives to poor students; others slam it as corrupting the noble nature … Read more
It’s been a crazy summer, with a major project that threatens to consume all my working hours, and myriad home improvement headaches around the house that have been eating at my free time (thus the lack of posts around here last week). The good news is that unlike a similar crush back in the spring, … Read more
Hell, that’s not even the word. I can’t use the word I really want to use to describe the incident in which two brainless twits reproduced and then left their helpless children to fend for themselves while they got lost in in an online fantasy game for a few hundred hours. Because you see, this … Read more
I do a lot of our household laundry, perhaps even the lion’s share of the laundry. But my approach to doing laundry hasn’t always been the most … enlightened. All of the tips on this list are fairly obvious, and yes, I’ve made each and every one of these mistakes. 1. Do your wife’s laundry … Read more