One of the first things people realize when they meet me is that I’m a huge geek; I grew up watching Star Trek Next Generation at dinner, and Batman the Animated Series, Spider-Man and the X-Men on Saturday mornings. When Marvel started making th…
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Zippy’s Great Escape
We run a campaign now and then just for us in the homebrew world of Askance; there are none of the regular races, just anthropomorphic races like kitsunes and tengu, catfolk and grippli. We got off to a slow start but last night we finally had a sess…
Series Review: The Cousins O'Dwyer
Lately, instead of my usual heavy fantasy fare, I've been picking up light romances or fantasy romances to read. Jacqueline Carey's Agent of Hel trilogy was fun, and I go back and reread Anne Bishop's Black Jewels books because I like the characters …
LoZ: Breath of the Wild First Impressions
Yesterday was Nintendo Switch launch day and with it came the latest installment in the Legend of Zelda series for both the Switch AND the Wii U. I picked up my U copy, had dinner and put it on. Then waited 15 minutes while it updated. I couldn't bel…
Monument Valley is Mesmerizing
A couple of months ago, while staring down another end of month without much data left on my phone (Thanks Twitter and PokemonGo!) I went looking for a quick puzzle game for on the bus or lunch break. After passing over a dozen or more Candy-Crush wa…
Ain't No Party Like a Dwarf Party
Last night was Ryan's last night in the Sault for a while and unbeknownst to him I had a little surprise planned; a night of table top roleplaying with some of our friends! Unfortunately with the surgery and kid wrangling I had an idea but no ene…
Justifying my Existance
I've been tweeting a lot about feminism and gaming. My mentions have, to noone's surprise, been alight with all the dudes (and it's almost entirely dudes) who want to tell me how good I have it, how useless, how inconsequential, and how wrong I am. L…
FanExpo Canada 2015 THE BLOG
Well holy Hera, we're back! Our vacation that we've been planning and dreaming about for the last year is over. We decided to do the geekiest thing possible and save our cash, book at hotel in Chinatown in downtown Toronto, and spend four solid days
Cosmos Is Back
I was watching the clock like a hawk watches a plump rabbit; at 8:30 it was bedtime for my son, Gabe, but my daughter Kat was still fighting it. At 8:51 we laid her down *again* with the hopes that she would finally fall asleep. We waited. She seemed…
LoZ: A Link Between Worlds
It may have come up before a time or two but it's worth stating again; I got my start as a gamer on the SNES (that's the Super Nintendo Entertainment System for you young whippersnappers out there) with Super Mario World, Super Metroid, Secret of M…
Zelda RPG Part 1
So we FINALLY started the LoZ RPG I wrote about a couple of weeks ago and we had a blast. As expected, Gabe got into trouble right off the bat with one of the Hyrule Castle guards but Ryan and I are nothing if not quick thinking and flexible and tu…
Steampunk Zelda
Well how cool is this? I'd say VERY. I'm a big fan of the Legend of Zelda games by Nintendo. My first was Link to the Past which debuted on the SNES during the mid-90's, and I've played a few since then (but never beaten them; Ocarina of Time, Four S…
Reefclaws and F**king Sharks
When I was sixteen or seventeen I started playing table top RPGs for the first time. A couple of my friends were into it and they invited me to play but I was hesitant. They seemed...too enthusiastic about it, a little over eager that I should join t…
Legend of Zelda RPG
For a very long time I've wanted to play the Legend of Zelda RPG game found at Kobold's Keep. Years back I downloaded it but with moving to a new computer it mostly got lost. Between myself and Ryan we've tinkered now and then with updating it to 3…
To Boldy Go
There are many ways to be a geek, so many fandoms to love and be excited about. Finding people who are as passionate as you about the same things is like finding immediate new friends. I felt this way a few weeks ago when I connected with some guys a…
You Are Here - Sunday Special
"Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confide…
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