After almost 6 years, this spring saw the end of my friend Dave’s D&D campaign, when he moved out of state to pursue his career. We started out playing 3.5e Eberron at a gaming store down in Bellevue, and saw one set of characters into epic levels, with the second set not far behind. The [...]

Since our gaming group made the switch to the current revision of Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), I’ve been a subscriber to their “D&D Insider” service.  The main draw for me was access to the Character Builder software (and its associated content revisions) that dramatically simplifies the character creation and management process.  The Character Builder  program [...]

I recently had the opportunity to check out the Battlestar Galactica (2008) boardgame with my friend Jason.  He’d bought it on a whim, and needed a patient geek to play along, through the tangle of rules.  I won’t bore you with a full review, which would undoubtedly be inferior to this one over at BoardGameGeek, [...]

A few months back, I’d purchased a Wii component cable from Monoprice.  I’d priced the offerings from the usual suspects (Niko, MadCatz, etc), but I felt that $20+ was a bit overpriced.  The Monoprice cable cost around $4. Over the weekend, I was disconnecting the Wii to take with us to Lincoln, and noticed that the connector [...]

I’ve been in to painting miniatures (minis, figurines, figs, etc) for some time, and have a handful of minis that I use for D&D.  Recently, Richard was lamenting his boring gray pieces for his Last Night on Earth game.  I volunteered to paint them in batches for him.  The process I use is pretty straight forward: Base [...]