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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
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Win Signed Copy of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks
Author Ethan Gilsdorf, Globe Pequot Press and Froobi.com have teamed up to offer a special opportunity to win one of 10 free autographed copies of Gilsdorf’s critically-acclaimed book Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms.
As reviewed here on GeekDad, the book […] Continue reading
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Top 10 D&D Modules I Found in Storage This Weekend #6
We were digging through the storage shed to find just the right box of Christmas decorations, when I should chance across the dusty stack of old Dungeons & Dragons modules I’ve had with me for… well, for a very long time. For all the GeekDads who have gamed, as I scan and read through […] Continue reading
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Top 10 D&D Modules I Found in Storage This Weekend #4 (Revisited)
We were digging through the storage shed last weekend to find just the right box of Christmas decorations, when I should chance across the dusty stack of old Dungeons & Dragons modules I’ve had with me for… well, for a very long time. For all the GeekDads who have gamed, as I scan […] Continue reading
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Top 10 D&D Modules I Found in Storage This Weekend Part 3 (Revisited)
We were digging through the storage shed last weekend to find just the right box of Christmas decorations, when I should chance across the dusty stack of old Dungeons & Dragons modules I’ve had with me for… well, for a very long time. For all the GeekDads who have gamed, as I scan and […] Continue reading
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Top 10 D&D Modules I Found in Storage This Weekend Part 2 (Revisited)
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 stack of old Dungeons & Dragons modules I’ve had with me for… well, for a very long time. For […] Continue reading
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Top 10 D&D Modules I Found in Storage This Weekend (Revisited)
[It’s been two years since I ran this series of impromptu reviews of D&D modules I dug out of storage one weekend, and I thought readers might have a little fun seeing them again, or discovering them if you’re new to the blog. So I’ll run the for the next week or so. Enjoy!]
We were […] Continue reading
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Aion MMO Is More Than WoW With Wings
Chances are you’ve already heard of Aion. Released back in September, it was touted as the biggest massively multiplayer online game launch of the year. At nearly 450,000 preorders, it started off a little rocky (what MMO doesn’t?) and publisher NCsoft had to employ a 16,000-player ban-fest back in November. With upgrades to the game’s […] Continue reading
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Tagged computer games, D&D, Dungeons & Dragons, Electronic Geek, Games, Massively multiplayer online game, MMOG, RPGs, Videogames, Wizards of the Coast, World of Warcraft
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