Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Given how often I’m over at the OneBookshelf sites, I don’t know how this slipped my attention previously, but it turns out that through Dec. 7th they are doing a promotion called Teach Your Kids To Game Week. The idea basically is . . . ummm . . . to teach your kids to game. [...]
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Historically, it has been difficult to keep a gaming magazine alive. Only a storied few have ever lasted longer than a year or two, which perhaps is why they inspire so many stories and fond recollections. For the past five years, our hobby has been blessed by the presence of the “small but fierce” pages [...]
I am stunned, quite honestly, that it’s the middle of August and time for Gen Con already. Where in the world did the summer go?!? Well, there’s no time to ponder that just now. I’ve still got a bunch of details to sort out before I head out to Indianapolis … but I DO know [...]
While watching In Search of Steve Ditko, one thing struck me in a very personal way. It was the part of the interview with Stan Lee in Part 6 where the discussion of credit comes up. Over the years, there has been a lot of grief thrown Stan’s way about taking sole credit as the [...]
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Yeah, so as this post’s title suggests, it’s been a busy couple of weeks here at the Stan!plex. Besides working Mon-Fri at Wizards of the Coast, I’ve been spending my evenings and weekends working on some of my ongoing freelance assignments. As fate would have it, four separate turn overs all came due in the [...]
One of the blessings I am ALWAYS thankful for is the number of crazily talented people I know in such a wide array of fields. Take Cindi Rice. No, don’t take her … I’d be lost without her. But please consider her — over the time I’ve known her, Cindi has been Mistress of the [...]
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
With the announcement from Wizards of the Coast about the upcoming new iteration of Dungeons & Dragons, there’s been the expected buzz in the fan community debating the merits of the current and all of the past versions of the game. Actually, “debate” is a pretty tame word for what is more often referred to [...]
Yesterday, in talking about my current contract job at Wizards of the Coast, I noted that one of the advantages was that it let me stay connected to Super Genius Games. Of course, those of you who pay attention to such things may have thought otherwise based on the fact that my name is appearing [...]
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Last month I went to a couple of the Gamerati Tour stops that took place here in the Seattle area. Ed Healy had been traveling around country since Gen Con, stopping at local game stores along the way and helping to help create a sense of greater COMMUNITY among the wide-spread, many-faceted group of dedicated [...]
Thursday, August 18, 2011
One of the games I was most looking forward to picking up at this year’s Gen Con was Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple. This, of course, was at least a little bit because it does such a good job of echoing the look, feel, and spirit of the animated show, Avatar: The Last Airbender (which [...]