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• Accessories, Dice

  DiceBook for the iPad

  08.02.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  The iPad promises to enhance our tabletop role-playing game experience with the benefit of its magical whirly-ques and revolutionary gizmo-bobs hidden behind that shiny, multi-touch display. Of course, the hardware is useless without apps. Most gamers gravitate toward two particular types of iPad apps to bring to the gaming table: PDF-viewing apps that allow you [...]

• Accessories, Board Games, MMOs, Question, Video Games, card games

  The Physicality of Play

  03.07.10 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Every now and again, I open up my Tumblr account’s “Ask Me” feature, to get blog fodder from folks on the Internet. Last week, I got a gaming question that I thought we should talk about here. The question in question:
  When you play games online, the physicality of them changes: for example, you click a [...]

• Accessories, Movies

  Hitchcock and Friends

  09.22.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  My buddy Peter Hentges sent me a link, last week or so, to Hitchcock, a newish iPhone app for composing film storyboards in the wild, using, among other elements, photos taken with your phone while you’re standing right there, wherever it is you want to eventually shoot your movie.
  Obviously, this is fantastic. It’s just what [...]

• Accessories, RPGs

  Your Character, With a Fork In Him

  07.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  For the last six months or so, I’ve been using OmniGroup’s fine productivity application OmniFocus to manage all of my crap, and have been slowly easing myself all up into GTD. I’d recommend either, or both, to pretty much anybody.
  Here’s what I didn’t expect: To visit the Omni blog to discover a post about [...]

• Accessories, Fantasy, Miniatures, RPGs, Story, Will's Thesis

  Fourth Edition for the First Time

  06.03.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Like a lot of people eager to get an early taste of Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition (D&D 4E), I picked up the adventure/quick-start kit Keep on the Shadowfell. Like a lot of people, I checked in on other people’s progress in the adventure by perusing “KotS” threads on the EN World message boards. It [...]