Archive for November, 2012
Dungeons & Dragons: The Book of Vile Darkness on Syfy Tonight! Revel in the Horror of a Badly Managed Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property (IP) is legal shorthand for all the stuff you brand with your creation. “Star Wars” toys, “Pokemon” chewing gum and “Hello Kitty” t-shirts are examples of a company leveraging their creation to expand the brand. Oh, and they generate income through licensing, of course. The danger lies in flooding the market with too [...]
Developing D&D’s NEXT 3rd Party
To quote Mr. Burns, I know what I like and I know what I hate, and I don’t hate this. In fact, I’m beginning to love where D&D NEXT is going, a far cry from that initial Friends & Family Playtest I gnawed through earlier this year. I’m not saying there are no more issues. [...]
Brad Pitt Just Shot World War Z in the Head
“World War Z” is my all-time favorite zombie apocalypse book. It earned this status because the author injected a single “sci-fi” idea (lumbering zombie hordes) and built a real world around it. A world populated with intelligent people trying to stay alive in the face of a terrifying threat. Every tactic, response and human behavior [...]