Guise Knights

It would seem that I am going to be pulled into the modern era of Dungeons & Dragons. Kicking and screaming. (Well, there’ll be kicking and screaming. I’m pretty sure there will. It may not be mine.)

D&D came out with their Fourth edition recently. I kept resisting the urge to do anything with it. I’d been burned by the whole 3.0-3.5 experience, and I really wasn’t into caring about D&D anymore.
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Last night I had the opportunity to play Cosmic Encounter for the first time.

It’s a game of diplomatic back-stabbing, and galactic colonization.
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you guys look like you’re having fun without me! Stop it!
- The Crazy Knife-throwin’ Injun

W3 R @ UR CON, 64M1N’ W1TH UR DUD3Z!

L0LZ!

-The Jolly Red Giant was here!

Last year with some help from my friends I went to my first gaming convention, Phoenix Con Games. It was the start of my reawakening as a gamer. You may ask, what made it go to sleep in the first place? That would be a trip back in time… (more…)

By the by, I’ve been checking out a new “geek-centric” podcast. Go on over to www.touchingthemonolith.com and have a listen. It’s new and fun. Can’t wait to hear what the guys do next.

So this morning my latest Think Geek purchase arrived in the mail. Ah, the joys of unwrapping new swag! Woot! It’s l00t! Who knew that 3 t-shirts would be so heralded. It made me think about the time my dad called me from GenCon.

I was born and raised in Indianapolis. Most of my family still lives there, including my father. Some years ago, Dad went from high caliber systems analysis geekery to the life of a limo driver. Apparently there are geeks out there who enjoy taking a stretch with wet bar to GenCon. My dad had a few clients in the area and called me during his down time.

“So, you know about geeks. Can I ask you something?” Dad asked. (more…)

Let’s be open about this: We’re geeks.

We wear t-shirts with robot lovin’, binary code, 1337 5P34K, and high-level math humor. We pride ourselves on reading the instructions and knowing loopholes to the rules. We bow before the golden gods of Nintendo, Blizzard, Sony, and sometimes the evil Microsoft overlords. We know our stuff, and when it comes to games, we have (more…)