Here are the details for Gary’s funeral that I’ve been given: The visitation starts on Saturday, March 8 at 11 AM, with the funeral to follow at 2 PM, at: Haase-Derrick-Lockwood Funeral Home 800 Park Drive Lake Geneva, WI 53147 (282) 248-2031 The funeral will follow at 2:00 PM. Word is there will be some kind of gathering afterward, perhaps …
NPR on Gygax
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 …
Mutant Fugee
A note on ICv2.com today tipped me off to a connection in the Mutant Chronicles cast I hadn’t picked up on before, that of Captain Michaels. It turns out he was played by Pras Michel of the Fugees, and that Pras also helped produce the film. He gave an excellent performance in the film, in a small but important role, …
Ken’s Head
I’d planned to finish up the script for the second issue of Blood Bowl: Killer Contract this weekend, but I had to deal with something else instead. I coach indoor soccer at the local Y for my three youngest sons: Pat, Nick, and Ken. Normally, the worst trauma of the day involves kids whining about where I ask them to …
Busy Weekend
On Saturday, Marty and I caught The Spiderwick Chronicles film, based on the books by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi. Tony and Holly are both tabletop gaming refugees, and I got to meet them and sit on a panel with them at the 2006 Comic-Con. Marty and I both enjoyed the film. I haven’t read the books yet, but we …
Favorite Horror Game
The fine people at FlamesRising.com are running a contest about your favorite horror game. Just write it up in 250 words or less, send it in, and wait for a tentacle-faced Ed McMahon to show up at your door. There are only 16 entries as I write this, so your odds are much better than in the “Facing Down Cthulhu” …
Champions MMO
My friends at Cryptic Studios just announced the Champions MMO, as well as the fact they’ve purchased the property and licensed it back to previous owner Hero Games so they can keep making the tabletop RPG. Jack Emmert, who’s in charge of Cryptic, has loved superhero RPGs forever. I remember chatting with him about my Brave New World RPG before …