NPR has an excellent interview with my friend Stephen Chenault of Troll Lord Games about Gary Gygax.
Gygax Gone
I’ve just learned that Gary Gygax, one of the creators of Dungeons & Dragons and founders of its original publisher, TSR, died in his sleep Monday night. The guys at Troll Lord Games seem to have first posted about it, and I’ve verified it through my Alliterates pals. I worked as a freelancer for Gary’s New Infinities Productions back when …
Good-Bye, Brett
My pal Rich Dansky ruined my morning by pointing me to the news that Brett Favre is retiring. As a lifelong Packer fan, I recognize this as the official end of the greatest era in the NFL since the Lombardi years. As I told Rich, though, I think this is the right thing for Favre to do. He came back …
Kids and Trouble
My friend Mark Kaufman over at Days of Wonder, explained the Law of Inverse Trouble to me at a convention once. It goes like this: The older a kid gets, the less frequently trouble happens, but the bigger the trouble is. An infant, for example, gets into trouble all the time, but these are mostly easy things to fix. A …