Just about every week, my gaming group gets together to play our ongoing Greyhawk-based Dungeons & Dragons campaign. It’s nearly seven years old (its anniversary arrives in September) and its a source of continual fun, camaraderie and unrelenting chaos. It’s not all about D&D, although it dominates our agenda. We also play a huge number … Read more
It’s funny how aspects of your past can come streaking through your present, unannounced and unbidden, but appreciated all the same. I subscribe to a newsletter called WebWord, which deals with Web site usability issues. The most recent edition included a link to a copy of Infocom’s classic Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy text-based RPG, … Read more
Enter the Matrix, the video game which shares plot points with the new Matrix Reloaded movie, cost $30 million to make, includes an hour of new film footage, and–like its cinematic counterpart, has been getting mixed reviews from geeks. To be honest, I wasn’t sure I’d like the game all that much even before I … Read more
Fans of DC Comics rejoice: HeroClix: Cosmic Justice is upon us!
Tome of Horrors is a 400+ compendium of monsters for Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition culled from the first and second editions of the game.
I wanted Master of Orion 3 to be the greatest turn-based strategy game of all time. I wanted it to be a worthy heir to its predecessors. I wanted to spend endless hours lost in its strategic depths, gladly loosing a few hours of sleep to secure victory over a strategic star system. I wanted … Read more
I watched High Fidelity the other night with my wife. It’s a movie in which the main character, played by John Cusak, is a music geek in love with vinyl. The movie’s peppered with his top five lists (both of music and break-ups) and it got me thinking about my own top five lists with … Read more
My PC’s in its golden years. It’s a Pentium III 450 MHz machine with 384 meg of ram. It’s adequate for word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail and some Web editing, but its days as a glorious gaming machine are rapidly fading into distant memory. I can’t afford a new one just yet, so I’ve been looking … Read more
I got my latest issue of Dragon yesterday and discovered its section dedicated to a “countdown” to the revised edition of D&D, which is supposed to be released this summer. The new release includes revisions and tweaks based on customer feedback, rules integrated from the various handbooks, and about 25% new material. I’m ambivalent about … Read more
It had been weeks since I’d had a fix. Oh, I’d gone to my dealer, and picked up the goods, sampling them as soon as I got to the car. But the holiday’s wrecked havoc with my free time, and I was forced to lock them away in their little plastic cases for most of … Read more