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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 constantly drawing and erasing the map on a ratty piece of graph paper. I’ve seen groups use Lego minifigs, chess pieces and […] Continue reading
Toy Fair 2010 is Coming – And GeekDad Will Be There
I’m excited to go to the NYC Toy Fair again this year and an thankful that I have more time to plan for it. Rumor is that one or two other GeekDad contributors will be there so a meet-up is hopeful.
The fair is growing this year with over 1200 exhibitors and a reported 7000 never […] Continue reading
Go Lego Racer Go
Christmas 2009 brought a good haul of LEGO, including another entry in the LEGO gaming range: Race 3000.
Race 3000 allows you to build a LEGO Grand Prix track and to race around it with up to 4 players, overtaking, switching lanes, avoiding oil slicks and taking shortcuts. There’s even a little LEGO podium for the […] Continue reading
Haiku Meets Origami Meets Gaming
Maybe it’s my parenting instinct to try and get the best out of my writers, like I do my kids, but I’ve really enjoyed sharing their talents with a wider audience (the writers rather than the kids)
Whereas I restrain myself from putting my children’s art and writing online before they can grant me permission on […] Continue reading
10 Days in… Geography Game Heaven!
I have loved games, maps and geography for as long as I can remember. Having all of them at once is only that much sweeter. A few years ago I discovered the 10 Days in.. games from Out of the Box, but I never did buy them. They’ve been on my Amazon Wish List for […] Continue reading
100 Games + 100 Cupcakes = Sweet!
We’ve posted about cool cake art on GeekDad before, and about cupcakes, and of course about games. But we’ve never posted about all three topics at once, until now.
A graphic design and jewelry artist named Robin Dahlberg and several of her housemates made a set of one hundred of the most awesome cupcakes ever. Each […] Continue reading
Whimsy Animals for the iPhone Has Puzzles for Your Little Ones
My three-year-old daughter loves puzzles, particularly the chunky wooden puzzles with pieces shaped like parts of the picture (as opposed to jigsaw pieces, which she has more difficulty with). So it’s no surprise that one of her favorite iPhone games is a puzzle game. Whimsy Animals has sixty simple puzzles which then reveal photographs of […] Continue reading