Until this past weekend, it had been 35 years since I hadn’t seen a new ‘Star Wars’ movie on or before opening day. I broke that streak on purpose with ‘The Force Awakens,’ so my college-age daughter and I could see the ‘Episode VII’ debut together.
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Atlas Games’ Munchkin Gloom brings together Keith Baker’s card game of doom with the puns and backstabbing of Steve Jackson’s Munchkin.
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I don’t get to play ‘Munchkin’ as often as I’d like to, but I’m a big fan of the writing and artwork that goes into every version and expansion of the game. And since I’d never played AEG’s ‘Smash Up,’ the opportunity to play this year’s new combination of the two–‘Smash Up Munchkin’–was one of many Gen Con 2015 treats.
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Pluto’s gotten plenty of attention lately, but let’s talk Mars.
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One of the unsung accomplishments of Wizards of the Coast is the development of this three-volume set in such a way that the books can be enjoyed and appreciated by geek families who’ve never even played ‘Dungeons & Dragons.’
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I’m a longtime fan of the ‘Star Wars’ radio dramas, and attending the one-off live performance of the audio play ‘Smuggler’s Gambit’ was one of my favorite things about Star Wars Celebration VI back in 2012.
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Young Sherlock Holmes recently became available via Netflix “Instant Watch.” I was both excited and apprehensive because I remember really enjoying this movie, and, well, I’ve been badly burned by nostalgic revisits before. (I’m looking at you, Krull. I’m. Looking. …
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Having played a brief demo of WizKids’ Dungeons & Dragons – Attack Wing at this summer’s GenCon, I was really looking forward to the fall release of the Starter Set. I’ve finally had the chance to play a few sessions, and am itching for more.
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I’m a huge fan of the sharing of memories with fellow enthusiasts of geeky stuff. If you’ve got recollections of getting lost in a maze of twisty passages, all alike, I dig that. Or if you never got all the sand out of Kenner Luke’s hollow arm after recreating his Tatooine adventures; or if you can vividly remember the real-world setting in which you finally reached the words, “Well, I’m back,” he said. for the first time, then you’ve got a story I want to hear.
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Comic Book Artists: Next Generation is a short but neat documentary about The RAID (Royal Academy of Illustration & Design) Studio currently running on AT&T U-verse Buzz.
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Today marks release day for Exterminite: a five-issue digital comic collaboration from Geek A Week artist and podcaster Len Peralta, Broodhollow and Starslip creator Kris Straub, and Borderlands writer and Gearbox Software Chief Creative Champion Mikey Neumann.
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Steve Jackson Games and USAopoly announced Munchkin Adventure Time during Gen Con 2013, and the game made its debut just about a year later — and it’s [insert your favorite Adventure Time thumbs-up catchphrase here]!
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You know John Alvin’s work, even if you don’t know his name. Starting in 1974, the Massachusetts-born artist created dozens of the movie industry’s most memorable posters, from Blazing Saddles to The Lion King to E.T. and Blade Runner. He also designed a range of other movie-tie-in imagery, like the original Star Wars Concert poster and a popular fifteenth-anniversary Alien print.
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Steve Jackson Games has unveiled its first product aimed to include players of single-digit age — six and up: Munchkin Treasure Hunt. GeekDad received one of a very few advance review copies, and now that we’ve played a few games, we’ve got good news for Munchkin fans with young kids: it’s really fun.
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Flip Flash is quick to learn and play, and seems like the kind of card game my family will enjoy having around during get-togethers. It doesn’t require a huge time investment, can be played by a skill-diverse group, and allows for hanging out and chatting without an intense focus on strategy.
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If you’ve been waiting for a tabletop aerial combat game that includes more shimmering scales and fewer S-foils — more actual fire power than, you know, “firepower” — you’ll probably be interested in WizKids’ Dungeons & Dragons – Attack Wing, set for release next month. I had a chance to play a short demo at this year’s Gen Con, and it sure seems like fun.
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I scheduled a trio of role-playing sessions for my trip to Gen Con this year: a custom Firefly adventure, Monte Cook Games’ “Into the Violet Vale,” a Numenera convention event, and a one-hour Dungeons & Dragons encounter, “Defiance in Phlan.” The Shiny: Firefly This was my introduction to Margaret Weis Productions’ Cortex Plus System, as […]
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Since learning to play Munchkin in 2009, my daughter and I have largely stuck to our original Munchkin Bites set, with the exception of mixing in The Guild expansion and one personalized (but totally legit!) Go Up A Level card.
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Titan Books’ The Paleoart of Julius Csotonyi is a rare beast of an art book: visually incredible, content-rich, exhilarating, inspiring, and eye-opening.
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If you’ve read any science fiction over the past 40 years or so, odds are pretty good you’re familiar with Harris’s work, too. Since the mid-1970s, when he began taking on science fiction themes in his work — which he describes as “imaginative realism” — Harris has created art for books by a stunning list of writers, including Isaac Asimov, James Blish, Frederik Pohl, Arthur C. Clarke, Larry Niven, and Joe Haldeman.
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Arthur Rankin, Jr., half of the legendary Rankin/Bass animation production team behind dozens of TV classics, including The Hobbit, died Jan. 30 in Bermuda.
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In the case of Munchkin Pathfinder — the fifteenth stand-alone version of the Steve Jackson Games classic — crossing the streams with the world of Paizo Publishing’s flagship role-playing game Pathfinder is good. Really good.
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One GeekDad’s Hexbug Nano V2 “Build Party,” testing out the next generation of Hexbugs and their habitats.
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It’s Bill Nye the Science Guy’s birthday!
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Nobody celebrated October like Ray Bradbury. As Halloween draws near, here are ten Bradbury works that perfectly fit the season’s lengthening nights.
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From different versions of the opening crawl to storytelling conversations between George Lucas and Lawrence Kasdan to the visions of concept artists and the unparalleled practical effects work of Industrial Light & Magic, J. W. Rinzler’s The Making of Return of the Jedi will delight Star Wars fans.
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Thirty years ago today, Dungeons & Dragons came to Saturday morning cartoon land. Whether you think this was a good thing or not probably depends (as some wizard/crazy old man once said) on your own point of view.
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Codex Born opens with a new mystery for Isaac Vainio – the librarian with a talent for reaching into books and bringing objects into reality – and his friends, but author Jim C. Hines takes the people, ideas, and history developed in Libriomancer and pushes them all into fantastic new territory.
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Earlier this month at LoneStarCon 3, John Scalzi won the Hugo Award for Best Novel for his 2012 book Redshirts, which has more than a little bit of fun with one of science fiction’s longstanding tropes. Seems a good time, then, to revisit Scalzi’s interview with GeekDad covering metafiction, parody, humor’s place in sci-fi history, and Poor Ensign Jones.
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At Gen Con 2013, GeekDad takes on the live-action fantasy role-playing adventure True Dungeon.
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