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According to an article on SFGATE, scientists are getting closer to figuring out the language of whales. It's a fun read on its own . . . and the ideas and methodology might give more realistic space-faring RPG games ideas for how sci-fi scientists communicate with unusual life forms. (How...

A second edition of Toon: The Cartoon Roleplaying Game will be crowdfunded beginning on December 17!   Toon, designed by Greg Costikyan and developed by Warren Spector, is a family-friendly RPG that debuted in 1984. Since then, roleplayers have come to love the zany hilarity of a game inspired by...

Munchkin Digital – Pathfinder from Dire Wolf Digital is now available for download on Steam! Based on Paizo's Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, this stand-alone DCL with 168 cards brings your favorite characters and monsters to Munchkin.   Your character can be one of two unique classes  – Witch or Alchemist – then join...

Here's a fun article about reindeer roaming the busy streets of downtown Rovaniemi, Finland – a rarity – complete with pictures. Now, I could take the opportunity to plug some of our holiday offerings to tie into the . . . um . . . reindeer games. But I'm not...

As I mentioned back in May, one of my hobbies is fiddling with constructed fictional languages. All this month, r/conlangs, a subreddit focused on "constructed languages for language geeks," is hosting a language-expansion challenge. Each day during the month of December, the hosts present a new topic, including ideas on...

Have you ever come across a site which you just know will be useful someday, even if you don't have any clue when or how? Folks, I present . . . itiner-e.org, a digital atlas of all roads in the Roman Empire. Clicking individual segments of road will bring up...

Following in the footsteps of a story from October about how a black neon tetra had committed credit card fraud, I share the bittersweet news of another amazing fish . . . The Escapist reports news of the death of Tortellini, a goldfish who had achieved some degree of boss-killing success...

Leslie Fish, multiple-award-winning singer, songwriter, author, and gadfly, passed away last week. Leslie and I were friends from conventions decades ago. In more recent years we both traveled less and somewhat fell out of touch, but it was always great when our paths crossed again. When she was talking, I...