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By on May 31, 2013  |  Comments 2

Gen Con 2013 Exhibitors and Vendor Link List with Descriptions

Gen Con 2013 draws near and here is my yearly list of all the vendors attending Gen Con 2013.  If you see any errors or omissions, please drop me a line.   Trask, The Last Tyromancer http://10x10room.com/ Online role-playing game tools Abbots Hollow Studios Using leather and creative imagination to create fantastical creatures, faces, potion [...]

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GAMA Trade Show Best of Show Winner 2013–Kickstarter.com
By on April 07, 2013  |  Comments 1

GAMA Trade Show Best of Show Winner 2013–Kickstarter.com

Yes, you are reading that correctly.  I am giving the “Best of Show” for the GAMA Trade Show 2013 to Kickstarter.com.   Kickstarter was the talk of the show. If you had a booth there was a solid 50/50 chance that a Kickstarter was in your future. It really was everywhere at the show. Before you [...]

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GAMA Trade Show 2013 Vendor and Exhibitor List
By on March 07, 2013  |  Comments 0

GAMA Trade Show 2013 Vendor and Exhibitor List

The 2013 GAMA Trade Show vendor and exhibitor list has arrived! Once again I plowed through the raw list and found links to (most) of the vendors. Some names were too vague to Google and other simply were MIA. If anyone has information on the “unknown” companies or finds an error in the list, please [...]

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Review: A Memory of Light, Final Book of the Wheel of Time (Spoiler Free…Mostly)
By on January 13, 2013  |  Comments 2

Review: A Memory of Light, Final Book of the Wheel of Time (Spoiler Free…Mostly)

Please indulge me for a moment before this review begins….Woohoo! I did it! I finished “The Wheel of Time” series! I slogged through 14 books, endless sub-plots, 500 page books that advanced the plot by four days, Nynaeve’s hair pulling, Egwene’s whining and a growing belief that Robert Jordan got paid by the word. It [...]

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Are The Works of J.R.R. Tolkien Aging Poorly and Destined for Mandatory Reading Lists in High School English Classes?
By on January 06, 2013  |  Comments 2

Are The Works of J.R.R. Tolkien Aging Poorly and Destined for Mandatory Reading Lists in High School English Classes?

Wait! Before the slings and arrows of the Tolkien faithful strike with full force, please hear me out. I acknowledge that Tolkien is the grandfather of modern fantasy literature. That his works inspired at least two generations of later writers and his impact on the genre will echo through the ages. I am in no [...]

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Battlefoam Versus Blood of Kittens Update–Battlefoam Counter-Sues in Arizona

Battlefoam Versus Blood of Kittens Update–Battlefoam Counter-Sues in Arizona

The Battlefoam lawsuit versus Blood of Kittens continues with Battlefoam filing a counter-suit in Arizona.  The lawsuit in its entirety is at the bottom of this post as a PDF file if you want to read the whole thing, Once you get past the legal boilerplate, here is the bare bones version of the lawsuit. [...]

Analyzing Sony’s Nut Punch

After the knee-jerk reactions I shared with the crowds at E3 regarding the PS4, something akin to the tongueless shouts of the mob crowding the cage of Thunderdome, I started to look back at the event and securitize what was said and why. The presentation was a mixed success, boring in some places, exciting in [...]

Review: The Nazi Occult by Kenneth Hite

Review: The Nazi Occult by Kenneth Hite

Osprey Books has a long and distinguished history as a publisher of historical reference books. I am a huge fan of their product lines and many an adventure sprang from their non-fiction titles. Happily, Osprey is branching out into the gaming arena explicitly with their “Osprey Adventure” line of books.  It is a new line [...]

Naming Names

In all honesty, I dislike the name of my game Amethyst. Back when it was a homebrew game, it could be excused, but as I developed the franchise, it made less and less sense that a dragon god be named after a gem that in legend staved off drunkenness. The other two volumes in this [...]

Trask Speaks:

Trask Speaks: Now it is #gameofthrones. Everything else was just…

Now it is #gameofthrones. Everything else was just a warm up.

Gen Con 2013 Exhibitors and Vendor Link List with Descriptions

Gen Con 2013 draws near and here is my yearly list of all the vendors attending Gen Con 2013.  If you see any errors or omissions, please drop me a line.   Trask, The Last Tyromancer http://10x10room.com/ Online role-playing game tools Abbots Hollow Studios Using leather and creative imagination to create fantastical creatures, faces, potion [...]

Xbox One: Welcome to the Family

Before the jump, I’ll summarize by saying that the unveiling was disappointing but not unexpected. What I found surprising was the level of rage generated by serious journalists and their claim that said rage was a reflection of them being taken seriously as journalists. I really wish someone with a modicum of perspective would comment [...]

Respecting Trek

I admit being probably one of the few people that found Star Trek: Into Darkness disappointing. It’s not altogether a bad film, just one that misses the mark and doesn’t live up to its full potential. Part of this problem is its half-hearted and misguided attempts at fan service and its insistence on milking key [...]

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