Last night, I went to Delaware to see R. A. Salvatore at Borders for a question/answer session and a book signing. He (and his son Geno) were there to promote their new books. The Salvatores put on a good show, they answered some good questions, and I got my copy of Homeland signed, [...]

Spore. Ah, Spore. I’ve been looking forward to the game for a while. It’s an intriguing concept: a game where you create and evolve a creature into a whole race of creatures, from a single-celled organism all the way up to a space-faring race, with complete creative control. Sounds like fun, [...]

There are a lot of games out there with interesting mechanics, deep strategy, potent themes, and plenty of replayability. Flying Frog’s Last Night on Earth does not meet all of these criteria: the mechanics are fairly simple, and while some strategy exists within the game, luck can play just as big a role, if [...]

Wizards of the Coast have written a formal response to Mr. Goldfarb, and mailed it off to him. I say, “Great job.”

I mentioned yesterday that Wizards had created Tiny Adventures, a D&D app for Facebook. I also mentioned that it was a bit buggy; specifically, adventures were not updating for me, and I kept on getting errors. Well, here’s the response that Wizards posted to yesterday’s antics, and it is awesome:
5pm Thursday, August 21st
Your [...]

I went out for a marathon gaming session last night, and managed to play four games, two of which I’d played before. In the order that I played them:
Settlers of Catan was the first game I played, and it was the second time I had played it. It was fun. I like [...]

Okay, so Wizards of the Coast has created a D&D Facebook app. It seems interesting, if a little buggy and slow. If you’re signed up on Facebook, you might want to go check it out. If you’re not, maybe this will get you to sign up.

Followup: Michael Goldfarb apologized for his remarks today. While the apology does not immediately strike me as being all that sincere, I’ve decided that, since intent and tone is hard to read on the Internet, I’ll take it at face value and accept the apology. Hopefully this is the last time I’ll feel [...]

Yesterday, I ran a solo session for the one player who wasn’t able to make it to the first session. Now he’s got comparable experience to the others, and he’s actually in Winterhaven, which makes things easier. Anway:
Session Two: The Road to Winterhaven

As a long-time DM, I’m always on the lookout for tools and such that make my job a little bit easier. Since I really haven’t shared all this stuff with you guys yet, I figured I would. Most of this stuff is relatively inexpensive, if not downright free. Some of it is [...]