Adventure Log: CORE1-1, Inheritance
Six strangers find themselves in the cramped room sitting room of a once-wealthy merchant, who fidgets and stammers through his words. In a nearby city—shrouded in a bizarre permanent darkness—lies his...
View ArticleThe Watchmen: A review in bullet points
I took my fiancée to see Watchmen last night. We were unprepared. I give it ★★★★ out of five. Below sums up my thoughts. It’s violent enough that I cringed. The movie is “patently too adult for …...
View ArticleEpic
Last weekend, at Gamex, I spent a grueling three days grinding through Living Forgotten Realms modules in order to level up in time for the convention’s finale: SPEC1-2: Zhent’s Ancient Shadows....
View ArticleParsing Your Character’s Loot
Here’s a quick teaser for a new project I’m working on, almost ready for public beta. def loot(character_sheet_file) @xml ||= Hpricot::XML(character_sheet_file.read) @loot ||=...
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Harry Potter is just a Buffy Redux
Brian Lynch showed us that 30 Rock is a rip-off of the Muppets, but the Tina Fey comedy is not the only show with bizarre parallels to another. J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels and Joss Whedon’s...
View ArticleHearts in Shadow
The teaser for my new adventure has been posted on Living Forgotten Realms group site. To tease the teaser: “[This ring] was found in an old ruin several leagues north from here, … We identified it as...
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You Needy Bastard: WoW need vs. greed etiquette
Do I need an item? Did they verb the word greed? The Need vs. Greed treasure interface can be confusing to a new player who isn’t used to it. But it’s pretty simple once you get the hang of it. When...
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How I post things to the Internet
I submit the following diagram somewhat ironically, perhaps as an explanation as to why these pages are so bare. I’ve found myself a member of so many status, friendship, check-in and sharing-focused...
View ArticleD&D 4E Fast Combat House Rules
The following house rules are an attempt to speed up 4E D&D combat and make games more fast-paced, interactive and fun. It also allows a more seamless transition between role-play and combat–the...
View ArticleThere is no off-season: NFL.com’s move to YUI
Back in November I gave a talk at YUIConf about the NFL’s move from Prototype to YUI. Shamefully late, I present my slides from the event minus a certain logo. Slides that simply regurgitate an authors...
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