Gaming Cultures Social Reality, Identity and Experience in Fantasy Games

Much excitement!

I’m anxiously awaiting my order of Had A Glass 2009, which is the 2009 version of the book I recommended back in March. Based on the extremely high quality of the wines chosen from last year, I will have to say that it will be difficult for this book not to provide some excellent […]

Rpgs | No Comments | Permalink | Posted on : 22nd November 2008

Meiko on Conan

Conan took another page from my songbook last night by featuring Meiko on Late Night. Here’s a HD clip of her performance of ‘Boys with Girlfriends’ for you to savor:
Mieko on Conan (HD 540p, 80 MB H.264)
I’ve also got the iPod/iPhone compatible clip (35 MB).
Enjoy!

Rpgs | No Comments | Permalink | Posted on : 4th November 2008

Philosophy is Over and an Exciting Weekend!

I’ve got a very exciting weekend coming up.
Before the weekend starts however, I have the final ‘midterm’ for my Philosophy class. I know I was complaining earlier about how philosophy hurts my brain (which it does), but I’m really glad I had the opportunity to take the class. I was able to learn […]

Rpgs | No Comments | Permalink | Posted on : 4th November 2008

Music Sounds Better WithOUT You

You know, much as I tried to like some games, it’s just impossible. Perhaps the issue is that the product just plain sucks ass, perhaps it’s my own dislike of the game genre. Nonetheless, it often amuses me how on occasion, games falling into either category can often have music so great, I end up […]

Rpgs | No Comments | Permalink | Posted on : 1st November 2008

Dungeons & Dragons: 4th time around

Because I’m fast approaching old fart status, I’ve been playing roleplaying games (off and on) for over 25 years. It’s difficult to describe how they’ve affected me growing up. Hell, I have a hard time even figuring it out myself. I DO know, however, that playing RPGs with a close-knit group of friends in junior […]

Rpgs | No Comments | Permalink | Posted on : 19th October 2008

Jagged Alliance Coming to DS

Jagged Alliance is a tactical RPG series that first saw the light of day in the mid-to-late 1990’s on the PC. This game was originally announced quite some time ago, but disappeared off the radar when the publisher, Strategy First, cancelled all of the DS titles that they had in the works.
The good […]

Rpgs | No Comments | Permalink | Posted on : 21st August 2008

Our Feats should be better organized.

The way certain Feats - such as Agile Maneuvers, Improved Bull Rush, Improved Grapple, Improved Overrun, and Improved Trip - are handled is kind of broken. Mostly, the problem is their relationship to each other and other feats. I’m listing Feats found in the Pathfinder RPG Beta, of course; Agile Maneuvers doesn’t exist […]

Rpgs | No Comments | Permalink | Posted on : 2nd July 2008

Reviews from a Dead Planet

Its been recommended to me that I move my game reviews to a dedicated site, so I’m doing so. I’ll still post them here, but they will be posted on a ‘time delay’, so that the review site is the first stop for game reviews.
Here’s the link:
Reviews from a Dead Planet

Rpgs | No Comments | Permalink | Posted on : 20th April 2008

My other writing

I haven’t had much going on that I’ve felt the need to post here about since my last update, but I’ve been fairly busy doing posts elsewhere or running games for people.
As I mentioned a few posts ago, I’ve started a new blog Reviews from a Dead Planet, where I will be posting my game […]

Rpgs | No Comments | Permalink | Posted on : 31st January 2008

This week in Tangler (#027, 23 Jun 2008)

What happened in Tangler last week and what’s coming up this week:

Great Topics

It’s download Firefox day! (General Conversation)
World’s Hardest Game (Morgan’s Tangle)
Australian Tech Events Calendar (Conference Chaser)
Pictures of You (2008) (General Conversation)
A massacre (Riddle me this…)

New Forums

El Vertedero
Lugar de acogida para los exiliados del Banyeres Blog.

Tabletop RPG chat, embeddable blog blocks, and the like.

DYSF’s Opinion […]

Rpgs | No Comments | Permalink | Posted on : 19th November 2007