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Each year I get the absolute plum gig of compiling our annual list of must-buy toys for the holiday season. My fellow GeekParents and I test them out, write them up, and then it’s over to me to place them in… well, whatever weird order strikes my fancy at the time. This year’s guide sees […]

Towers are often represented in fantasy fiction. Whether it’s the Tower of Babel, The Two Towers, or the Dark Tower from the… erm… Dark Tower series by Stephen King, something is compelling about an unassailable edifice driving into the sky. They offer a multi-strata world, that literally has an in-built hierarchy. Alongside great novels such […]

Several years ago a fellow teacher mentioned a book titled The Saber-Tooth Curriculum as a book that every educator should read. At that time there were many discussions about helicopter parents,  lawnmower parents, tiger parenting, and so forth so I believed a saber-tooth curriculum was something along those lines. However I recently had the opportunity […]

In “Reaping the Rewards,” I take a look at the finished product from a crowdfunding campaign. Stonespine Architects was originally funded on Kickstarter in July 2023, and was delivered to backers in the spring of 2024. This review is an updated version of my original Kickstarter Tabletop Alert. The minotaur apprentices have one final project: constructing […]

Alana Joli Abbott from Outland Entertainment is here to tell us all about this new game and picture book project.

What started out as a self-contained university experiment turned into a media spectacle that captured the imagination and attention of the world, shaping our understanding of human nature and forever changing the field of psychology. There was only one problem: The story of what happened during the experiment was shared with the world by only one […]

Millennia ago, a magical race called the Aesir found a new home on a distant world. Attracted to the cold during an ice age, they hibernated for hundreds of years at a time. With each awakening, however, they saw their world changed by ever-evolving mortals, encroaching on their territory and way of life. Two civilizations […]

Here I am again, a new month and a new pile of books. After a productive October, I hope to keep up the momentum this month. Here then is my November 2024 Book Preview! The Book Club Pick Early book club in November (because we didn’t meet in October) and the pick is The Lost […]

Dungeons & Dragons is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Over a year ago,  Dungeons & Dragons: Onslaught was released in which players engaged in combat skirmishes between adventure parties set in the D&D world. It is a great game and earned our GeekDad Approved! award. Several expansions have been released. Now a new set has […]

October is a time for monsters and, in my house, that also means it’s a time for D&D. Even when our family gaming group isn’t involved in an ongoing campaign, I still like to at least convene once in October for a Halloween-themed one-shot. This year, I arrived at the gaming table with a brand […]