Today’s e-mail from my favorite online shopping site, dealnews.com, came with a listing for 100 tiny six-sided dice for only $1.90, including shipping. There’s a game in there somewhere. (I know, I know. It’s Champions.) Better yet, they go down in price if you buy in bulk. You could get, for instance, 1,000 dice for only $13.20, plus $1.70 for …
New House!
Last night, we accepted a counter-offer on the house we wanted. It’s a grand, old place in the same school district we’re in now, so the kids won’t have to move away from their friends, but it’s in a nicer neighborhood. It has almost twice the space of our current house–which we need, since we’re bursting at the seams here–and …
Are Historicals the New Science Fiction?
I try to follow literary trends as best I can, and it seems like we have a wealth of historical novels these days–far beyond the Michener-like epics–and a dearth of science-fiction. It’s almost as if the two genres have flipped around, that historicals have supplanted the purpose of science-fiction. In many ways, we live in the science-fiction world our parent …
User-Generated Games
There’s a lot of talk these days in the computer game industry about user-generated content. It’s done a tremendous amount for online communities, like Second Life, which is sometimes billed as a game but is more of a toy. Case in point is Metaplace, the new venture from Raph Koster, author of A Theory of Fun for Game Design. It’s …
Idiot Heroes and Villians
I recently began work on The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Superheroes and Villains, Illustrated. This is another “how to draw” book for IDW Publishing, in the vein of the manga books I worked on with Tomoko Taniguchi. This time around, though, the equally talented Yair Herrera joins me to bring my notes to life and provide the real meat of …
House Hunting
On Friday, we accepted an offer on our house! Now we just have to find a new one. (The contingency offer we had on another place this summer expired at the end of August, so now we’re free to look around again.) We don’t ask for much. It just has to have four or more bedrooms, be in good shape, …
Kobold Quarterly #2
The latest issue of (fellow Alliterate) Wolfgang Baur‘s Kobold Quarterly is out. It features bits by Ed Greenwood, Skip Williams, Jeff Grubb, Robert Schwalb, Stan!, and more. If you enjoy d20 fantasy gaming and miss Dragon and Dungeon, be sure to check this out.
IAMTW News
The latest issue of Tied-In, the IAMTW newsletter, is available for download. In this PDF, you’ll find notes about Donald Bain (the Scribe Awards first Grandmaster), BotCon, the novelization of The Twelve Dogs of Christmas, news from (fellow Alliterate) Steve Sullivan, and my con report from Origins 2007.
ARGs Against Cancer
Via my pal James Wallis comes a note from Adrian Hon (James’s partner at the wailing-new Six to Start) about a project dedicated to concocting a brand-new Alternate Reality Game designed to raise money for cancer research. You can find out all the details at LetsChangeTheGame.org. In short, they’re asking for 500-word game concepts. They’ll pick the best and give …
Happy October
Fall is on the way, although you might not know it around here yet. Still, October’s started now, which means Halloween, that horrific holiday, is just around the corner. On that note, a friend of mine dropped me an interesting link for something called Fighting the Dead. At the moment, there’s not much to see, just creepy sounds and images, …
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