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Dark Diamond Network (Free subscription) | yesterday
This weekend comes with a feeling of great loss for geeks of all associations. Shel Dorf, Comic-Con’s founding father, has died this past Tuesday, he was 76. Beyond the rift comics and manga have, or any other flavor of geekdom, we should all be grateful for Dorf’s work to the community as a whole. Basically pioneering [...] Related posts: RIP: Gary Gygax Father Of The RPG Comic-Con 2008...
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BOTH BOTH (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Grendelwulf from a D&D website reviews my Gary Gygax ! "Whether he means it as sincere homage or quick cash, I can't say. But as a poetry lover (from Poe to Shakespeare to Chaucer to Maya Angelou to Robert Frost and everything else in between) I can agree with you that it is not very good...at all...not even a little...seems like he is a grade school teacher who had his students all write...
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NCSX Import Video Games (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
NCS Game Synopsis «©NCSX» Back in the 80s, Table-talk RPGs came into their own in Japan thanks to inspiration from Gary Gygax's Dungeon and Dragons role-playing phenomenon. Table-talk RPGs are different from videogame RPGs in that the scenarios, characters, and game world are overseen by a human "Dungeon Master" or "Game Master" who recites from a rulebook. One...
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Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Kevin Haw writes in to tell us about World of Warcraft and Philosophy, a new collection of essays and stories: Plato, Socrates, Nietzsche, Adam Smith... Sure, they were all great thinkers, but how long would they have lasted in Ulduar? Continuing with the ongoing Popular Culture and Philosophy series, World of Warcraft and Philosophy, (Wrath of the Philosopher King) will be hitting bookshelves on November...
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The Wertzone (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
The History of Greyhawk Dungeons and Dragons was created in the early 1970s by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson as an extension of their tabletop wargame, Chainmail . The earlier game was about massed battles between armies of miniatures, initially focusing on historical events and then bringing in fantastical creatures and magic. Continuing the process, Gygax extrapolated out a game focusing on a smaller...
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The Wertzone (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Since its inception in the early 1970s, the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game has attracted millions of fans, both of the game itself and the numerous worlds that were created as settings for its adventures. After the demise of the original publishers, TSR, in 1997 and the sale of the game to Wizards of the Coast, most of those worlds were unceremoniously dumped, including the more quirky and...
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GamesIndustry.biz (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
Creating original content and owning your own IP is something that can build "real value" into your company, whereas your position is "really weakened" when the focus is mainly on work-for-hire or licensed products. That's according to Eidos life president Ian Livingstone, in the closing keynote of this year's GC Asia conference taking place in Singpore, as he took the audience...
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Luke Reviews (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
As August draws to a close, and the new school year sets upon us, things get a bit busier and the adjustment throws things a little out of whack for a period. I apologize in advance if I become a tad slow as my schedule slowly readjusts myself, but the pace of reviews shouldn't make a large change, I still will shoot for at least two books a week. As the last list I left up here just finished (and...
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Jeff's Gameblog (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
I know I can’t be the only one tired of comparing one retro-clone to another, one edition to another, retro-clones to the editions they ape, and different entire games to each other. There’s lots of useful discussions to be had in this vein, but there’s also a lot of internet monkeys flinging poo. I know because sometimes I allow myself to be one of them. What I would like to propose...
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The Silver Key (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
I was listening to The Hobbit while driving to work the other day when this exchange between Thorin and Gandalf impressed itself on my D&D-addled mind: "But we none of us liked the idea of the Front Gate. The river runs right out of it through the great cliff at the South of the Mountain, and out of it comes the dragon too--far too often, unless he has changed his habits." "That...
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Sham's Grog 'n Blog (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
A dozen observations from the front lines by a Proto-New School, Neo-Grognardian Dungeonista. What follows is a collection of thoughts and observations that I recall from my own experiences in what many now call the old school era. Ranging from 1979 to 1985, these were my peak D&D playing years. All 6 of them, yet it feels like a landmark event in retrospect. Very little changed in fact after 1985;...
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GeekDad (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
Image via Wikipedia The Janesville Gazette reports that Gail Carpenter Gygax, wife of late Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax, is currently seeking to have a statue built in Gary’s honor in his hometown of Lake Geneva, WI. Working with a local attorney, Gail hopes to begin raising money for the project soon, with an official [...]
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Siskoid's Blog of Geekery (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
Gary Gygax's widow is actively seeking to have a statue of her husband erected in his hometown of Lake Geneva , home of Dungeon&Dragons, a fine homage to the man who made us think of dice differently (among other things, of course). But how could that homage be just a little sweeter? Roll that dice, son! 2 - Answer the riddle on its base and it moves to reveal the entrance to the Temple of Elemental...
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The Silver Key (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
John Bellairs' The Face in the Frost is one of those books recommended by Gary Gygax in Appendix N of the Dungeon Master's Guide ("Inspirational Reading") that I've had on my "to read" list for a long time, but never managed to track down. When I finally did score a used paperback copy it sat for months in an unread pile on my bookshelf . I've now crossed this book off my list,...
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