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D&D Encounters: The Lost Crown of Neverwinter Review and Resources

Background In 2010, Wizards began winding down support for Living Forgotten Realms and introduced a new program, called D&D Encounters.  This was to support stores, as the program could only be...

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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Review

Background Ernest Cline had been known in Austin, TX circles and on the internet since 1996 when he released a sequel screenplay to Buckaroo Banzai.  However, he didn’t come to national prominence...

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Neverwinter Campaign Guide Review and Resources

Background Neverwinter is the big push for Wizards this year.  With a video game, a facebook game, multiple books and an encounters season, Wizards is really pushing this setting this year. A big...

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Reflections on Using Google+ and Twiddla

I’m going to write a more detailed summary of all the tools we are using to play D&D online, but here is a  short review of our use of Twiddla and Google+. Google+ has been great.  We use google+...

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Irredeemable volumes 1-3 by Mark Waid, Comic Book Review

Background Irredeemable is a comic book written by Mark Waid and drawn by Peter Krause.  It features a Superman-like hero who has gone bad.  It focuses on the former allies and friends of the...

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Stars Without Number Review and Resources

Background: Stars Without Number reads and plays like a combination of Original D&D and Traveler.  It’s a hard sci fi in the vein of classic writers like Heinlein and Asamov, and more modern...

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Review: Conan The Barbarian #1 by Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan

I picked up Conan the Barbarian #1 by Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan.  I will admit, the only reason I was at all interested in it is that I’m a huge Brian Wood fan, and both of his other big monthlies,...

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Review – Zogorion: Lord of the Hippogriffs

Quick Summary Zogorion: Lord of the Hippogriffs is written by Jason Sholtis and is a short but sweet mini-adventure in folio zine format. You might know Jason Sholtis from his blog Dungeon Dozen where...

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RPG Product Review: An Echo, Resounding

An Echo, Resounding: Lordship and War in Untamed Lands is a resource book for managing  Labyrinth Lord and similar Old School Style games when they begin to outgrow their little starting town and the...

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Review of In Hero Years

After 4 chapters, I was ready to give up.  My copy of the ebook was poorly edited, the main character a string of cliches and too many mysteries.  Thankfully, I didn’t give up on it.  The mysteries...

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SF Book Review: Silo (Wool) Series, by Hugh Howey

So, over the break, I fell hard for ebooks.  I had been flirting with them.  Appreciative of the fact that I could get a book without having to go to the store. F or a person who is terrified of ever...

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Tabletop Gaming, thanks to Tabletop

You do know tabletop, right?  Wil Wheaton?  If you don’t, but are into board games, you need to start watching his show.  Like, right now. Back?  Never left? If you are like me, you’ve been watching...

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