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Tag: Ethan Gilsdorf

Ethan Gilsdorf’s “Why ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Is Good for You (In Real Life)”

May 27, 2016James Floyd Kelly

You may never have given any thought to the benefits of playing ‘D&D,’ but writer and former GeekDad contributor Ethan Gilsdorf has thought about it. A lot.

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Happy Birthday, Alan Rickman and Anthony Daniels!

February 21, 2013Ethan Gilsdorf

Picture a world where the man inside the C-3PO suit, and the man providing his voice, is Alan Rickman.

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The Lord of the Rings “Could Have Used Some Editing”: Viggo Mortensen Speaks (Again)

March 13, 2012December 14, 2017Ethan Gilsdorf

“It’s more than just ‘I love Legolas.’ OK, in some cases maybe it’s only that,” jokes Viggo Mortensen on the popularity of The Lord of the Rings. “There’s something very profound about those stories.” Then he continues, “They could have …

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Happy Birthday, Alan Rickman and Anthony Daniels!

February 21, 2012Ethan Gilsdorf

Picture a world where the man inside the C-3PO suit, and the man providing his voice, is Alan Rickman. Now imagine a warped universe where Anthony Daniels plays not just endless spin-offs of his famous golden protocol droid designed to serve humans, but …

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A Wrecking Ball for Writer’s Block: The Storymatic Creates Stories

February 17, 2012November 14, 2020Ethan Gilsdorf

Ever wish you had something to write about when your brain goes dead? The Storymatic is here to the rescue. Part writing prompt, part teaching tool, part parlor game, The Storymatic is a clever little box packed with 500+ cards. Open the …

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Covers of AD&D Reprint Rulebooks Released

February 16, 2012December 13, 2017Ethan Gilsdorf

As previously reported by GeekDad’s MJ Harnish, Wizards of the Coast announced last month that, as a fundraiser for the Gygax Memorial Fund, they’d be releasing reprints of the original Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D) Players Handbook, Dungeon Masters Guide, and Monster Manual. They’re coming out in …

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Wait — Atlantis Doesn’t Exist After All (Again)?

February 7, 2012Ethan Gilsdorf

Updated seafloor imaging on Google Earth cleans up the artifacts that had people worked up about finding the lost continent.

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Why the New Star Wars Volkswagen Super Bowl Ad Is a Travesty

February 4, 2012December 14, 2017Ethan Gilsdorf

I was excited as the next Star Wars fan to get a sneak peek this week of the new “The Dog Strikes Back” Volkswagen ad that’s set to debut at the Super Bowl. Like the big hit of last year, “The …

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Want to Write a Lot? Go for a Walk, Just Like Bilbo

February 2, 2012December 14, 2017Ethan Gilsdorf

People sometimes ask if I have advice about writing. What works? What tips and tricks can you teach me? “Do you know what you’re going to say before you sit down to say it?” they ask. “Do you know where …

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Lost Movie Found: We Played D&D in the 1980s

February 2, 2012December 13, 2017Ethan Gilsdorf

Recently, I uncovered this movie — one that I hadn’t seen in probably 30 years. Yes, this is an actual (and silent) movie from a real Dungeons & Dragons session, shot by me, on a Super 8 camera, in Lee, …

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Unknown Tolkien Letter Falls Out of Book

February 1, 2012December 14, 2017Ethan Gilsdorf

As reported on TheOneRing.net and elsewhere, a handwritten note written by J.R.R. Tolkien that he’d addressed to a couple he and his wife Edith had met on an unfortunate holiday just sold to an anonymous internet bidder for £1,700, or about $2,700. …

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Memoir Recounts Youthful Quest for Meaning in D&D, Comics, Zeppelin

January 27, 2012Ethan Gilsdorf

Growing up in the suburbs of Boston, and raised on secular Judaism, Cocoa Puffs and Gilligan’s Island, Peter Bebergal found himself on a quest. A spiritual quest that, as a teen, led him through comic books, Dungeons & Dragons and …

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Make-A-Wish Makes a Castle

January 26, 2012December 14, 2017Ethan Gilsdorf

So what if the expression is a cliché? For one small-town kid suffering from a disease, dreams — even medieval-themed dreams of knighthood, chivalry and adventure — do come true. As reported by WMUR, a New Hampshire TV station, a …

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Mitt Romney as a D&D Character? NYC Show Celebrates Art and Gaming

January 4, 2012Ethan Gilsdorf

New show in NYC will celebrate the effect of Dungeons & Dragons on art and culture.

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PerambuLit: A Choose Your Own Audio Story

October 14, 2011Ethan Gilsdorf

Ever since I devoured all those Choose Your Own Adventure books — mine were actually Endless Quest books put out by the folks who gave us Dungeons & Dragons — I’ve been intrigued by the idea of interactive storytelling. Here was …

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D&D Poems — Starring the Umber Hulk, Gelatinous Cube and Girls

June 11, 2011April 3, 2020Ethan Gilsdorf

The muse has hit me like a vorpal sword. I’ve been working on some poems for an upcoming comedy performance and it was impossible to resist the temptation to …

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Dungeons & Dragons Saved My Life

June 10, 2011Ethan Gilsdorf

Summer makes me nostalgic. Why? Because these long, boiling days of June remind me of my first time. Yep, that’s right. I was a virgin. And summer is when I lost it. I played Dungeons & Dragons for the first …

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Groovy Lord of the Rings Stickers Unearthed

June 6, 2011December 14, 2017Ethan Gilsdorf

I attended the recent 3rd Conference on Middle-earth (in Westford, Massachusetts) where I listened to talks on blond elf imagery and debates on how to adapt The Hobbit into one movie or two movies (and the wisdom of that latter …

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Classic Video Game Competition Returns to Funspot (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)

June 4, 2011admin

If you’re a 30- or 40-something geek like me, you probably played video games as a kid. Not on the personal computer, which in the 70s and 80s was only in its infancy. I mean the big, hulking, stand-up video …

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Geek Dons Chain Mail, Makes Fool of Self

June 3, 2011Ethan Gilsdorf

When I was a kid and deathly bored in the summer, I’d make movies. I borrowed a Super 8 movie camera from my mom (she was a teacher and used it in her classroom) and I took to the woods …

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Classic Video Game Competition Returns to Funspot

June 1, 2011Ethan Gilsdorf

If you’re a 30- or 40-something geek like me, you probably played video games as a kid. Not on the personal computer, which in the 70s and 80s was only in its infancy. I mean the big, hulking, stand-up video …

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Winners of the Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks Contest with Ethan Gilsdorf

December 15, 2010Natania Barron1

Sorry for the delay in this folks, but we can officially announce the winners of our Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks poetry contest. The most excellent Ethan Gilsdorf helped us narrow down the poems, but we had to pick five. Each of our winners receives an autographed copy of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks! Congrats […]

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Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks Contest Deadline Extended!

November 15, 2010Natania Barron

We’ve got some great poems entered in our contest for a chance to win one of five copies of Ethan Gilsdorf’s book Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks. And good news if you’ve not yet entered: we’re extending the deadline until this Friday, November 19th! You can read the whole article, and interview, with Ethan here. […]

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Geek Author Ethan Gilsdorf Talks Names, Games, and Giveaways!

November 8, 2010Natania Barron132

Ethan Gilsdorf is the celebrated geek author of the very awesome book, Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks. It’s the sort of book that, if you’re a lifelong geek like me, you can’t put down. The book chronicles Ethan’s life as a young geek, his escape from his roots, and then his return. From Tolkien to […]

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Geek Author Ethan Gilsdorf Talks Games, Names, and Giveaways!

November 8, 2010admin

Ethan Gilsdorf is the celebrated geek author of the very awesome book, Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks. It’s the sort of book that, if you’re a lifelong geek like me, you can’t put down. The book chronicles Ethan’s life as …

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Win Signed Copy of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks

January 8, 2010December 14, 2017Michael Harrison

Author Ethan Gilsdorf, Globe Pequot Press and Froobi.com have teamed up to offer a special opportunity to win one of 10 free autographed copies of Gilsdorf’s critically-acclaimed book Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role …

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Don’t Try to Escape Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks

September 1, 2009Michael Harrison

When writer Ethan Gilsdorf was twelve years old, he spent his time at home avoiding the Momster, a fearsome creature that had replaced his mother after her brain aneurysm. His only escape from the hell of his homelife was Dungeons …

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