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John Christopher 1922-2012
Tor.com reported the passing of John Christopher today. This saddens me greatly as I was a tremendous fan of the “Tripods” young adult sci-fi series many years ago. I learned critical life skills like how to evade capture, blow up alien war machines and the best way to infiltrate an alien city masquerading as a [...]
Metamorphosis Alpha Arrives from Lulu
The Metamorphosis Alpha game itself is all that I expected, pure old-school gaming. This is not really a review, just a report on the whole Lulu experience. Honestly, the production quality is much better than expected. My experience with print-on-demand ranges from acceptable to awful, so the quality of this book is a nice surprise. [...]
A Gencon 2012 Hotel Near-Miss
Oops. I forgot today was the Gencon 2012 hotel registration day and logged in an hour late. Expecting to get a hotel somewhere in Outer Mongolia, I was pleasantly surprised to get the downtown hotel I desired. I hope this is because the new hotels in Indy finally added enough capacity to meet demand rather [...]
Metamorphosis Alpha on Lulu.com with Free Shipping
Long have I desired a copy of “Metamorphosis Alpha” by James M. Ward for my bookshelf, but I am unwilling to pay collector prices. Mostly because I feel stupid because I walked past stacks of this game in book stores back in the early 1980s and never realized its historical significance to gaming. Now, James [...]
Counterpoint: Singing the Blues for 4th Edition
I don’t cheer the demise of 4th Edition D&D, and not because my publishing label has at least one more product utilizing the system. 4th Edition D&D was the Ron Paul of game systems—a political outcast with bizarre and revolutionary ideas which, though making a lot of sense, were extremely unpopular within the demographic being [...]
Secrets to Getting a Free 20 Gig Dropbox Account
Dropbox is the handy online storage tool I wrote about a couple of years ago. I thought it was handy tool for game groups. I used a 2 gigabyte free account for a while, but noticed I was filling it up very quickly and constantly managing space was a hassle. I am also incredibly cheap [...]
A Pathfinder Open Questionnaire–Now With Working Comments
Update: This is repost because I just noticed the comments on the post were not working. It is working now, so comment away! For the past few months, we here at DEM have been developing an adaptation for Amethyst using the Pathfinder rule setting, called Renaissance. This adaptation is not an update of our original [...]
Livingdice Goes Black Tommorow to Protest SOPA
I may not have much traffic relative to Google and Wikipedia, but I do enjoy the right to publish my rantings freely. That said, the Stop Online Piracy Act is a pathetic attempt by large media companies to control the Internet using Gestapo-like tactics. By the way, I do not use the Nazi analogy lightly. [...]
GAMA Trade Show 2012 Hotel Alert
Update: I just checked and the Bally’s site is now showing the correct pricing for GTS 2012. All appears to be well. I just booked my flight and hotel for the GAMA Trade Show 2012 and noticed something odd. Assuming you are staying at the site of the convention (Bally’s), you can use the [...]