Geekly Speaking About… “What to Expect When You’re Attending New York City Comic Con”
With the dog days of summer disappearing and the sound of little footsteps running away from school buses, fall is upon us—which means it’s time for another New York City Comic Con. This year, the event will be held at the Javitz Center from October 11 to October 14 and there are less than 48 […]
In: Podcasts, Reviews · Tagged with: d&d, NYCC, NYCC 2011, Womanthology
Back of the Box: Castle Ravenloft
What do you get when you remove the role playing from D&D 4th edition, and include a nifty exploration mechanic, and set it in one of the coolest settings in all of D&D-dom? You get the newest board game from Wizards of the Coast. Should You Buy This Game?
In: Reviews · Tagged with: castle ravenloft, d&d
Trisha’s Quote of the Day: When flavor text goes wrong
Meanwhile, Wilhelmina the gnome wound up at the bar with a hoary ancient mariner, who had a very strange story involving albatrosses, and kept buying him drinks, with the end result that poor Kevin had to read most of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in character, which he did with great style, except that […]
In: Around the Intertubes, Games: Board and RPG, Quips and Quotes · Tagged with: d&d, quotes, rpgs
21st Century Digital Gnome: The introduction article
This is the introduction column. It’s like that introduction paragraph in role-playing books. Anyone who has opened and read a Player’s Handbook or Player’s Guide or any other basic role-playing game book in the last twenty years has probably read that paragraph about what a RPG is. You know the one.
So what’s in store for you in two weeks when I actually write about something that isn’t an introduction article? I’ll talk about EVE Online – a game I don’t play, don’t want to play, don’t even want to consider playing, and yet absolutely love reading about every chance I can get.
In: Columns, Games: MMORPGs and Text-Based RPGs · Tagged with: d&d, MMO, play by post, Role Playing