Ever, Jane: An Austen-Inspired Virtual Game
Imagine an online RPG held in the Regency era of Jane Austen. Check out this Kickstarter.
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Accursed RPG Kickstarter Launches on Friday the 13th, 2013
The Accursed RPG launches on Kickstarter on Friday the 13th with witches and monsters in a world overrun by evil.
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ConnectiCon: Gamin’ and Art
ConnectiCon 2013 was filled with epic RPGs, cosplay, dancing, and lots of art!
Continue ReadingVenture Into the World of the Mistborn Adventure Game
The Mistborn Aventure Game, developed by Crafty Games, is based on the Mistborn trilogy written by Brandon Sanderson.
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Meet Our Sponsor: Check Out BPAL’s RPG Scents
A look at BPAL’s RPG line. Align your scent!
Continue ReadingJames Stowe’s D&D For Eight Year Olds: Streamlined Character Sheets for Kids
Dad James Stowe remixed 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons for the younger crowd, girls and boys.
Continue ReadingThe GeekMoms Podcast #21: All About LARPing
LARPing or Live Action Role Playing is an incredibly popular and misunderstood part of geek culture. The image many have of loners who live in their parents’ basements eating junk food only to emerge on the weekends as wizards and warriors couldn’t be further from the truth.
Continue ReadingGetting Back Into The Groove
Having a baby seems to disrupt things in your life, but that’s to be expected. But I didn’t expect some of the things that fell to the wayside. Now that my daughter is three years old, I’m finally getting back into a groove with some of the geeky pursuits I had put on the back burner. I […]
Continue ReadingChocolate Gamer Dice
Pardon the cliches flying here, but what does a lady geek want more than her dice recreated in chocolate? For $15 towards this Kickstarter project, you get a complete set–D4, D6, D8, D10, D12, and D20 recreated in Ghirardelli 60% cacao. I bet they’d go really well with a bite of chocolate space invader.
Continue ReadingGlitch Gone Wild?
After signing myself up for Glitch, I decided to let my kids develop characters of their own (under my e-mail addresses and with my close supervision). Over the weekend my oldest son took a trip to the dark side of Glitch: “Glitch Hell“. Simply put, you visit Hell by dying. You can visit Hell several times, […]
Continue ReadingBlack Phoenix Alchemy Lab’s RPG Line of Perfume Oils
Ever wonder what a Chaotic Gnome Mage smelled like? The perfume oil company, Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, has answered that question with their line of RPG scents. I’ve been a fan of Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab (BPAL) for years. I was never able to wear regular perfume because it all smelled the same to me […]
Continue ReadingFitocracy – A Geeky Way to Track Weight Loss
Losing weight can be a challenge, but if you treat it like a quest in a roleplaying game, might actually make working out fun! I am overweight. Not terribly, but enough that I’m not very happy with my current weight / shape. Add in the fact that I had a c-section with my daughter, and […]
Continue ReadingHow To Get Laid in Every RPG Session
I refer to role-playing, not actually having sex with your fellow gamers (unless it’s a whole different kind of role-playing group.) I played a character for about a year that had had sex every single gaming session (not alone), and you can do it too! I did not set out to make such a stud, […]
Continue ReadingThe French Side of… Steampunk Literature
Les Moutons électriques (Electric Sheep, just like Philip K. Dick’s famous novel) is a French publisher that offers some wonderful collections for every geek. Its bibliothèque rouge (Red Library) proposes biographies of imaginary characters in a convincing academic style. One can read Les nombreuses vies de… (The many lives of…) Harry Potter, Jane Austen, Dracula […]
Continue ReadingMoms, Get Your Game Face On!
I played over thirty video games while I was at PAX East last weekend. As I predicted in my previous post, most of them were disappointing clones of other games. Also as predicted, there were a few great new games on offer at the convention. It would be exhausting to review everything I played, but […]
Continue ReadingThe French Side of… RPG
I don’t know if you had the same feeling in the US, but for a while, we French RPG players were quite convinced we were the last generation of a very brief-lived phenomenon. Younger people seemed to mark no interest at all in our favorite hobby. We saw people growing (relatively) older around RPG tables […]
Continue ReadingCABIN FEVER: Help For RPG-Frustrated New Parents
Imagine your kid is too young to care about the weather outside. Imagine (s)he’s so young (s)he won’t even notice it’s snowing, except if you stick his/her tiny nose to the window and point the strange white falling things, exclaiming loudly “Look! It’s snowing!” (or “Regarde! Il neige!” if your geekling is supposed to understand […]
Continue ReadingGeek the Vote: Politics for Kids
The number of American political geeks under age eighteen is predictably low. I mean, why should kids geek out about something they can’t even participate in? The better question is: Why shouldn‘t they? Kids aren’t allowed to vote, but that doesn’t mean they’re incapable of understanding what’s going on around them. Besides, kids are natural […]
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