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Another Five Great Blogs About Role-Playing Games
GeekDad compiles another round of RPG blogs for you to read over your lunchtime. As we mentioned last time there are literally thousands of RPG blogs out there so it can be hard to find any that don’t...
View ArticlePlans Underway to Honor Gary Gygax with Statue
Image via Wikipedia The Janesville Gazette reports that Gail Carpenter Gygax, wife of late Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax, is currently seeking to have a statue built in Gary’s honor in...
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Dungeon Master’s Guide 2 is a Critical Hit
Today marks the release of the much-anticipated Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master’s Guide 2. The final entry in the second series of core rulebooks, DMG2 is hands down the best book released by...
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RPG Battle Maps Square Off: Battle Graph Dry Erase Boards
Running battles in combat-centric role-playing games can be as painful as stepping on a caltrop. You’re either depending on the Gamemaster to keep the entire scene in his or her head, or you’re...
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Wizards of the Coast Publishes D&D for Kids
Here at GeekDad, we have been promoting the value of role-playing games with children for quite some time. And, along with all the other geek parents out there in libraries and schools promoting the...
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Geeky Math: RPG x LotR = DMotR
That would be Role-Playing Games crossed with Lord of the Rings = Dungeon Master of the Rings, of course. Fellow GeekDad and Star Wars fanatic John Booth recently tweeted about “Darths and Droids,” a...
View ArticleAsk GeekDad – May 25, 2010, Twitter Edition
Ah, behold the joys of Twitter. It makes our job even easier at Ask GeekDad when we get quick questions via our Twitter account (that’s @AskGeekDad of course!). Today’s queries run the gamut from...
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RPG Battle Maps Square Off: Paper or Gaming Paper?
I’m always on the lookout for something cool to bring to the gaming table. The one thing I’m never satisfied with? My battle map. A few months back, I put the Battle Graph Dry Erase Boards to the test...
View ArticleTop 10 D&D Modules I Found in Storage This Weekend #1 (GeekDad Wayback Machine)
We were digging through the storage shed this weekend to find just the right box of Christmas decorations that were needed to make things perfect before the party, when I should chance across the dusty...
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New D&D Movie Needs Your Character
I’m not going to lie: I wasn’t a big fan of the first Dungeons and Dragons movie. Part of it was that I saw it all by myself, during my first semester away from home at college, and I was ...
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Enter the Mega Dungeon: 65 Square Feet of Adventure
If you’re like me, when it comes to your pen-and-paper role-playing games, having a well-illustrated battle map on the table is pretty important. While it’s true that you can play a game of Dungeons...
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Power2ool Makes D&D Encounter Design a Critical Success
Encounter design in Dungeons & Dragons has come a long way. Back in the old days, there wasn’t much in the way of game balance. If you were DMing a bunch of noobs through a dungeon and they were...
View ArticleEnter the Mega Dungeon: 65 Square Feet of Adventure (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
If you’re like me, when it comes to your pen-and-paper role-playing games, having a well-illustrated battle map on the table is pretty important. While it’s true that you can play a game of Dungeons...
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Here There Be Dragons: Looney Labs’ Seven Dragons Game
Since rumors of the Pottermore website began, my husband has been daydreaming. An off hand comment by me that I might be interested in playing a Potter MMO has him fantasizing about all night gaming...
View ArticleDungeons & Dragons Documentary Scheduled for 2013
Over at examiner.com they have announced that production has started on a new “definitive documentary on Dungeons & Dragons.” The writer, Michael Tresca, (who also seems to be involved, along with...
View ArticleBalancing Board Games and Babies, Part II
My Pokemon mentor once said to me, “The family that games together, stays together.” He couldn’t be more correct. A few weeks ago I shared with you how my husband and I balance being parents and...
View ArticleAD&D Coloring Book (From 1979) — Only $1000
It is out of print, but over at Boing Boing they have a great little write up on The Official Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Coloring Album. This is exactly the kind of product that deserves to be...
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SparkFun Puts D&D Dice Up Your Sleeve
The folks over at SparkFun Electronics have a post up detailing a recent creation from their e-textiles sage Dia. A LilyPad Arduino-powered Dungeons and Dragons dice gauntlet. The gauntlet allows you...
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Earn a Masters in Dungeoneering From Faster Combat
Faster Combat is billed as an online course that will teach game masters how to cut their combat time down while increasing the drama and storytelling that goes into combat and the overall campaign....
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