I’m right in the middle of Dealer’s Choice: The Complete Handbook of Saturday Night Poker, and it rocks. If you ever thought about setting up a regular poker night with your buddies, this the how-to manual you need. Even if you’ve been playing in such a game for years, the book comes with over 200 poker variants for you to …
Geek Mafia for Free
My friend (and former Pinnacle freelancer and co-creator of the hit computer game City of Heroes) Rick Dakan has just self-published a new novel: Geek Mafia. It is, as the tagline says, a novel of comics, games, and crime, subjects dear to my own geek heart. I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, but it’s high on my …
Politics and Gaming
Robin Laws, in commenting on the use of Rule 21 to force a closed session of the Senate yesterday, provides a quote that speaks right to my gamer-politico heart: “Thus again confirming that America, while it expresses an engaging core concept and includes plenty of cool crunchy bits, was rushed to press without sufficient playtesting.”
High Stake Drifter Delayed
Due to some problems with getting the custom poker chips for the game made, WizKids has pushed back the official release date of High Stakes Drifter until November 23. In the grand scheme of things, waiting a couple weeks to get great components for a great game is no big deal. In the meantime, WizKids has also posted its final …
Free Tomb of Horrors
The fine people at Wizards of the Coast have updated their classic Dungeons & Dragons module The Tomb of Horrors for version 3.5 of the game. Best of all, it’s free! I have fond memories of this, the most lethal of the TSR-published adventures, despite the fact that my cleric got slaughtered in a horrible and arbitrary way. If you’re …