Reading Time: 6 minutes Here in Atlanta, Georgia, there are twelve of us who are playing in a Frostgrave campaign. Frostgrave is a skirmish wargame—low cost of entry (Core Rulebook is only $16 on Amazon), only 10 miniatures needed, a couple of D20 dice, and you’re ready to play. The game takes place in the […]
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Reading Time: 1 minute Geek Links are cool stories that we’ve found elsewhere on the internet that we think our readers will love too. Dungeons & Dragons fans across the globe have been glued to their screens this weekend watching the team from WotC and their famous friends announce their latest storyline. Baldur’s Gate: Descent […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes <img data-attachment-id="332626" data-permalink="https://geekdad.com/2019/05/9-cant-miss-blu-ray-releases-for-may-2019/blu_ray_may2019/" data-orig-file="https://i1.wp.com/geekdad.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/05/Blu_ray_May2019.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1200,675" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Blu_ray_May2019" data-image-description=" Blu-ray picks for May 2019 ” data-medium-file=”https://i1.wp.com/geekdad.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/05/Blu_ray_May2019.jpg?fit=600%2C338&ssl=1″ data-large-file=”https://i1.wp.com/geekdad.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/05/Blu_ray_May2019.jpg?fit=1000%2C563&ssl=1″ class=”alignnone size-full wp-image-332626″ src=”https://i1.wp.com/geekdad.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/05/Blu_ray_May2019.jpg?resize=1200%2C675&ssl=1″ alt=”Blu-ray picks for May 2019″ width=”1200″ height=”675″ data-recalc-dims=”1″ /> I know we’re heading into the summer blockbuster season, but in between that lull of you watching Avengers: Endgame for the […]
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Reading Time: 1 minute Bring out the true beauty of your photos with today’s Daily Deal, the Complete Photoshop Master Class Bundle 2019. This bundle of six courses covers how to do amazing things in photoshop. Go all the way from learning about layers to bringing out the true beauty of a photo without having […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s Mother’s Day weekend in the Convention Connection for Week 20 2019. Our spotlight convention this week is Comicpalooza 2019 in Houston, Texas. The event runs from Friday, May 10 through Sunday, May 12. Celebrity and creator guests at this year’s event include: Emilia Clarke (fitting for Mother’s Day weekend to […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutes We’re not sure how it happened, but Mother’s Day snuck up on us this year and we’re a little late compiling the gift guide. Here is a small selection of gifts that we think would be great for the mothers in our lives. Even if it’s a little late. Image credit: […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes This Week’s Word Is “Steamship.” For Word Wednesday this week, it’s something of an honor to review a book by an author who created one of my favorite books of all time. David Macaulay was also instrumental in my discovering the wonders of DK books, (called Dorling Kindersley in those days, […]
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Reading Time: 8 minutes Dragon Heist Session Twelve: Intellect Devourer-ed Not sure what to do next, and with no clear way to raise the funds needed, the four adventurers slumped into the debris of the tap room in Trollskull Manor. Lif could be heard upstairs smashing more furniture; Arvene was just about to go up […]
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Reading Time: 1 minute Create amazing digital photos with today’s Daily Deal, Hydra Pro HDR Editor for Mac. By merging photos with different exposures together Hydra Pro produces a more natural image. Input and output digital images of different formats and render quickly to see what the output will be. Everything is easy to use […]
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Reading Time: 7 minutes Hello, and welcome back to Graphic Novel Weekly! I’ve missed you! I had a stack of cool stuff planned for Graphic Novel Weekly, but a scheduling issue caused a bit of a hiccup, and a sprained wrist made it nearly impossible for me to write with any sort of speed. That’s […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s the first weekend of May, bringing both Star Wars Day and Free Comic Book Day this Saturday, May 4. Our spotlight event amid all that geeky goodness in the Convention Connection for week 18 is Fan Expo Dallas 2019. The convention will be held at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention […]
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Reading Time: 9 minutes DreamWorks, Joaquim Dos Santos, and Lauren Montgomery, after claiming to make content “as inclusive as possible,” failed to follow basic best practices on handling diverse characters respectfully, ignored clear warnings that their depictions were harmful, and attempted to blame external partners to hide their studio’s mistakes. “Each and every one of […]
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Reading Time: 7 minutes Note: As you would probably guess based on the headline, this article is full of spoilers for Avengers: Endgame. If you haven’t seen it yet, you should probably read no further. SPOILERS below! You’ve been warned. 10. Who was that teenager standing by himself at Tony’s funeral, and why was he […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Photo by Flickr user Katie Tegtmeyer, shared under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license. Editor’s Note: This post originally ran in 2015, but in light of this weekend’s huge release of Avengers: Endgame, we thought it appropriate to re-run it. I was 11 and in the sixth grade in 1983, and […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Note: There are no spoilers for Avengers: Endgame in this article, beyond what has already been shown, referenced, or very clearly hinted at in trailers, ads, and merchandise. There ARE spoilers for many of the previous Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films, particularly Avengers: Infinity War, for what I hope are obvious […]
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Reading Time: 2 minutes ‘The Next Great Paulie Fink’ by Ali Benjamin This is a sponsored post by Hachette Book Group and MK Creative. Ali Benjamin’s 2015 novel The Thing About Jellyfish was nominated for a National Book Award, named one of the best books of the year by School Library Journal, and is even […]
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