One wonders what Isaac Asimov would think of standardized testing, the killing off of art and music programs in public schools, and the amazing ways we’ve not only used computers to place information at our fingertips but to waste time rather than engaging in creative endeavors. Below, you can watch a 1988 interview with Bill … Continue reading
Let me begin with a couple of caveats and personal opinions about eBooks (or however we’re supposed to spell it) and the PDF market. With stuff that I publish, I take a pretty relaxed attitudes towards pirates, because I understand that not every download equals a lost sale. If someone wants to read something I … Continue reading
Some of my favorite gaming memories are of trudging to a friend’s house on school snow days and putting my group through wintery adventures. It set the tone well, having to slog through the snow to get there, listening to the wind howl outside. We’d drink hot chocolate and cider and do battle with white … Continue reading
Board games and LEGO, how can you go wrong? Well, you could, if the game’s bad, but then you’d still have some LEGO to play with to help ease the pain. So, no, there’s really no down side here. Katie wanted to try some of these out, so we started with the least expensive one. … Continue reading
A few years ago I was called for jury duty, and being a civic-minded citizen I didn’t try to get out of it and got selected. For legal reasons I’m going to fudge a few of the details, but the case basically went like this: at a concert, the plaintiff was harassing a girl. The … Continue reading
The sub-genre of espionage with science fiction leanings, often called “spy-fi”, had its Golden Age in the 1960s. I firmly believe that, in spite of many fine spy movies that have been made since, James Bond. The Avengers, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Get Smart, Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., Danger Man, The Prisoner, and more … Continue reading
A few days ago I not only received an invitation to Google Plus, but managed to actually get on. Invites are going out faster than Google is taking on new users, you see, so a lot of folks are waiting days before they can check it out. This might alienate some people, but the hardcore … Continue reading
One of my current groups has had multiple campaigns running, using the same game system. The reasons for this are good ones: we have more than one person willing to run games, and by alternating the gamemasters also get to play. The first drawback to this is that players have multiple characters, one for each … Continue reading
Last Friday night we played the first session of our Skullport Tales campaign, gamemastered by JohnG. We’re using a 2nd Edition Forgotten Realms setting, with Pathfinder rules. John had the dauting task as GMs face at the start of a new campaign: finding an excuse for a disparate group of characters to get together and … Continue reading
