My good friends at the Wicked Dead Brewing Company (John Wick, Jared Sorenson, and Annie Rush) recently gave me a load of their games, and they’re all great. My favorites are InSpectres (a Ghostbusters-style RPG with some really cool mechanics), Necromonopoly (a Lovecraftian boardgame in which the last sane player wins), and Run Robot Red (a dystopian RPG in which …
Successful Signing
The signing at Turtle Creek, the Beloit College Bookstore was a huge success. Thanks to everyone who stopped by to offer their support. It was truly touching. The store sold nearly 60 copies of Secret of the Spiritkeeper, as well as a few copies of The Fellowship of the Ring Sourcebook and The Stronghold Builder’s Guidebook that they had on …
Dave Sutherland Is Dying
I recently learned that Dave Sutherland, a longtime TSR employee and the artist behind much of the early D&D and Tekumel products, is terminally ill. To pay his medical bills and hopefully leave something for his wife and daughters, he and his sister are auctioning off much of his gaming stuff on eBay, including some real rare gems. You can …
Back from Gen Con!
Gen Con was flat-out amazing. I’ve been to the show 23 years in a row now (I started young), and I can’t imagine my summers without it. For me, this is like summer camp wrapped up with Christmas in August, except you get to pick out (and buy) your own gifts.
Diana Jones Shortlist Announced
The Diana Jones Award shortlist has been posted at www.DianaJonesAward.org. (Academy chair Nicole Lindroos was kind enough to allow the DJA committee to make its first official announcement at the Origins Awards ceremony on June 24.) The award will be given out at a ceremony on August 18 at Gen Con in Indianapolis. I’m one of the few publicly known …
Games Quarterly Magazine on the Horizon
On Friday, I got another surprise in the mail: the first issue of Games Quarterly Magazine. This is a brand-new general games magazine from Matthews-Simmons Marketing, the same people who bring you the game-industry bible Games Quarterly Catalog. I wrote an article about Fluxx (a real game designer’s card game) in it, which is why the printer drop-shipped me a …
Gen Con, the Honor Is Mine
Last week, the fine people at Gen Con contacted me to ask If I’d be willing to be a gaming guest of honor at this year’s Gen Con Indy. To say “YES!” any faster, I’d have had to have answered before they asked. I grew up in southern Wisconsin and have been going to Gen Cons since I was a …
Whack-a-Wick
I just had to share this. Anyone out there into Neopets? Well, my five-year-old son loves it and is always dragging me over to help him read directions and play games on the site. Some of them are pretty good, and we have a blast. While we were poking around the site the other night, we discovered something hilarious: a …
True (Cool) Dungeon
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