| Running battles in combat-centric role-playing games can be as painful as stepping on a caltrop. You’re either depending on the Gamemaster to keep the entire scene in his or her head,or you’re constantly drawing and erasing the map on a ratty piece of graph paper. I’ve seen groups use Lego minifigs,chess pieces and [...] [...] Author Ethan Gilsdorf,Globe Pequot Press and Froobi.com have teamed up to offer a special opportunity to win one of 10 free autographed copies of Gilsdorf’s critically-acclaimed book Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks:An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players,Online Gamers,and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms. As reviewed here on GeekDad,the book [...] [...] We were digging through the storage shed to find just the right box of Christmas decorations,when I should chance across the dusty stack of old Dungeons &Dragons modules I’ve had with me for…well,for a very long time. For all the GeekDads who have gamed,as I scan and read through [...] [...] We were digging through the storage shed last weekend to find just the right box of Christmas decorations,when I should chance across the dusty stack of old Dungeons &Dragons modules I’ve had with me for…well,for a very long time. For all the GeekDads who have gamed,as I scan [...] [...] We were digging through the storage shed last weekend to find just the right box of Christmas decorations,when I should chance across the dusty stack of old Dungeons &Dragons modules I’ve had with me for…well,for a very long time. For all the GeekDads who have gamed,as I scan and [...] [...] We were digging through the storage shed this weekend to find just the right box of Christmas decorations that were needed to make things perfect before the party,when I should chance across the dusty stack of old Dungeons &Dragons modules I’ve had with me for…well,for a very long time. For [...] [...] [It's been two years since I ran this series of impromptu reviews of D&D modules I dug out of storage one weekend,and I thought readers might have a little fun seeing them again,or discovering them if you're new to the blog. So I'll run the for the next week or so. Enjoy!] We were [...] [...] Chances are you’ve already heard of Aion. Released back in September,it was touted as the biggest massively multiplayer online game launch of the year. At nearly 450,000 preorders,it started off a little rocky (what MMO doesn’t?) and publisher NCsoft had to employ a 16,000-player ban-fest back in November. With upgrades to the game’s [...] [...] | |