Don't Fall For The Fake Steve
A (properly) suspicious fan forwarded us this mail. Is it bogus? Absolutely. It pretended to be from me, and said, in part . . . "Over time, I've successfully worked on 46 Kickstarter campaigns, with many of them reaching their funding goals within the first 72 hours. Because of these consistent...
Keep Your Third Eye Closed. No Really.
A recent paper published on Cell Press proposes that our pineal organ is a modified primitive eye. This eye was once used to detect light and dark by some of our most ancient monocular ancestors. Eventually two additional eyes formed from this one and, as our reliance on binocular vision...
Doodling As A Hobby
I just backed Howard Tayler's "Doodling as a Hobby: The Retrospective Sketchbook of an Accidental Career." As you know (or really ought to), Howard is the self-taught artist who created the science fiction webcomic Schlock Mercenary and kept it running without a single break – with both daily and Sunday...
How Do You Watch How-To-Plays?
As nearly every gamer knows, watching how-to-play videos online is a great way to learn new games. The videos can help explain not just the gameplay, but also the game's intricacies and strategies for winning. We'd like to know: Which how-to-play channel is your favorite? Tell us which one...
No UKGE For Me, After All
Events eventuated, unexpectedly and perversely, and I will be spending this weekend at home rather than at a great convention in Birmingham, England. Apologies to those who wanted to see me there. (I was one of them.) I still plan to make LibertyCon, Dragon Con, Gen Con, Gamehole Con, and...
Our Gen Con Events Are Selling Out FAST!
Gen Con opened ticket sales on May 17 and tickets to our events have been selling rapidly. We are hosting a whopping 97 events this year, and over 50 are already full! There is still space to sign up for the Year of the Munchkin Championship, plus sessions of...
Now On Warehouse 23: Last Train To Bremen
It's time to hop aboard a boxcar and take a journey on the Last Train to Bremen, because pre-orders for the box set are now open on Warehouse 23! Last Train to Bremen, from our friends at Possum Creek, is a thrilling one-shot RPG that follows four doomed musicians...
The Wicked Tale Of Wolf-Boy
If you're of a certain mindset, you'll probably see nothing better today than James Harbeck's translation/interpretation of the opening lines of the classic Old English epic poem Beowulf into the vernacular of Western Canadian English. I cannot stress enough that the language is exceptionally salty and not safe for work...