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“Order of the Stick”, the web comic about characters living in a D&D world (and well aware of the rules that govern their lives), did a special tribute comic to Gary Gygax. Very touching 🙂 Oh yeah, here’s Penny Arcade’s tribute.
Via Zen of Design, the sad news that Gary Gygax, the father of modern roleplaying games and the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, has passed away. He gathered together the ideas in a dozen or more fantasy books and showed us all how we could live our own adventures in those worlds. The RPG and … Read more
Yeah, I’m back on Shapeshifter again, that amazingly difficult puzzle game on Neopets. I’ve been thinking about getting back in that race again. I burned out on the puzzle back in September, but I have been getting encouraging notes from people urging me not to give up. There’s a strange community of solvers out there. … Read more
Aside from a couple of T1 raids, we’ve been working on Venril Sathir every night since we killed the Overking. Last night, we finally got him. He isn’t a HARD kill, but it’s the kind of raid where you have to pay attention — you have to keep your power around 50%; you can’t do … Read more
What has Portal got to do with Postsingular, anyway? I didn’t do a whole lot of gaming this weekend. I spent most of it curled up with my Sony Reader, devouring Rudy Rucker’s book “Postsingular“, which he is offering for free download on his website in PDF and Reader-friendly HTML. I love HTML books because … Read more