Playmates Toys tells me that Marvel Heroes Battle Dice is “starting to appear in Target stores now.” It should be on the shelves of all mass retailers by mid to late January. (That includes Wal-Mart, KMart, Target, Meijer’s, Toys-R-Us, etc.) You should also be able to find it at your friendly local gaming store right about then too. Woot!
Daryl Hannah–Game Designer
I just completed an article for Games Quarterly Magazine about Daryl Hannah and Hilary Shepard’s new board game LIEbrary. (It’s their second published effort, believe it or not.) It tells the true story of how Daryl Hannah cost me my job and saved my marriage. You’ll have to wait until GQM #8 hits stands this spring to find out exactly …
My Office
Over on his blog, Lee Goldberg mentions a coffee-table book he has about writers and their workspaces: The Writer’s Desk by Jill Klementz. Lee (who’s the VP of the IAMTW) posted a shot of his desk and challenged other writers to do the same. It struck my funny bone, so here’s mine, on a fairly uncluttered day. I try to …
Space Hulk Recap
The illuminating John McLintock wrote a two-part article about the old Games Workshop board game Space Hulk. As I read it, the memories flooded back. I haven’t played Space Hulk in years. I don’t even have a copy lying around any more. But I loved that game. While at the GW Design Studio, I worked on Deathwing and Genestealer, the …
New Photo
I just updated the photo on my “About” page. Just so you don’t have to go digging for it, though, here it is. If you click on the thumbnail, you’ll see an even larger version too.
DC Comics Battle Dice Away!
I just finished the first draft of DC Comic Battle Dice for Playmates Toys. This uses the same system found in Marvel Heroes Battle Dice, which should be in stores this month. Coming up for the stats for the DC heroes challenged me a bit more this time around. Marvel has published a set of encyclopedias that features numerical statistics …
Words in My Mouth
The Stateline News, a free weekly newspaper published here in Beloit, ran a “People You Know” article about me in the Sunday (12/31/05) edition. If you’re a local, you already have it. If not, my apologies, but there’s no web link to any such piece. Mostly, I’m happy with it. I always appreciate free publicity, even in a publication with …