Because of the pandemic, I’m only doing two conventions this year. The first is Gen Con — which happens this coming week — and you can see my relatively loose schedule for that here. The second is my favorite local convention, Gamehole Con, which is held in Madison, Wisconsin, from October 21–24. My son Marty and I have a full …
My Gen Con Schedule
It’s hard to believe, but Gen Con kicks off a week from today, on September 15. It’s normally in early August, of course, but the pandemic bumped it six weeks later. Ironically, because of the rise of the delta variant of COVID the original dates would probably have been safer, but that’s the problem with trying to predict such things …
Minecraft Dungeons Gets a Scribe Nod
On Monday, the IAMTW (International Association of Media Tie-In Writers) announced the nominees for this year’s Scribe Awards. I was pleased to see my novel Minecraft Dungeons: The Rise of the Arch-Illager made the list for Best YA/MG Novel! It shares that honor with: In the Study With the Wrench (a Clue novel) by Diana Peterfreund Liberty and Justice for All (a …
The New Marvel RPG
On Friday, Marvel announced its plans to publish a new tabletop roleplaying game called the Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game. Normally, I’d be pretty excited about this because I’m a lifelong Marvel fan and roleplaying gamer. I learned how to read with Spidey comics, and I played the classic Marvel Super Heroes RPG from TSR till my boxed set fell apart. …
Biomutant Is Here!
Hey, it’s midnight in Stockholm, so…. On May 25, 2021 (today-ish), the brand-new video game Biomutant launches to the public. My pal Stefan Ljungqvist has been working on this amazing game for years, and I’m thrilled that it’s finally out there for the world to play. I first met Stefan something like 30 years ago, back when he was at …
Bye, Feedburner
This post probably doesn’t apply to most of you reading it, but if you get my posts emailed to you via Google’s Feedburner, that’s all about to stop. Google is finally laying Feedburner to rest, which means it won’t bring my posts to your email inbox any more. All’s not lost though. I’m switching over to Jetpack/Wordpress for subscriptions to …
A Long-Expected Update
Wow, it’s been a long time since I updated this blog. Let’s just say that helping hold down the home fort during a pandemic and getting work done at the same time has been a wild juggling challenge, and this is one of the flaming chainsaws I let drop. Since the last post back in December, I managed to get …
More Shotguns, More Sorcery
The rights to Shotguns & Sorcery: The Roleplaying Game reverted back to me earlier this year, and I’ve been working to get the things promised to backers in the 2015 Kickstarter off to them ever since. The core book–based on Monte Cook Games’ Cypher System–finally released to the public this summer, and in the past couple months, I managed to …
Blood Bowl Books Are Back
Today, the Black Library released two new editions of books based on Blood Bowl, Games Workshop’s game of fantasy football. In this case, the fantasy doesn’t involve NFL teams but elves, dwarves, vampires, and other fantastic monsters having over-the-top hyper-violent pun-filled battles in between slaking their thirst on ales like Bloodweiser and Killer Genuine Draft. This was one of my …
Fox Cities and SAM
Like most people, I’ve been staying close to home and hunkered down in these pandemic-plagued days. If I’d known this was going to happen, I’d have spent more time at C2E2, which wound up being the last convention I attended this year. While some of those shows have been canceled outright, many of them have gone virtual, so I’ve been …