Category Archives: Nerdom

Read an RPG Book in Public Week – Not too late to join!

Posted on September 29, 2010 by RupertG
Read an RPG in Public Week

This week is Read An RPG In Public week which is a project put forward by The Escapist as a means to promote roleplaying as the healthy, sociable and above all, awesome hobby that it is. Continue reading →

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The Dice of Doom Podcast 000 – The Magic Missile Errata

Posted on July 12, 2010 by RupertG
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In this episode of the Dice of Doom Podcast we introduce ourselves and discuss the recent changes to the Dungeons & Dragons Wizard class At-Will power Magic Missile. Continue reading →

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Magic Missile errata – the controversy over changing D&D4e to be more like older editions

Posted on July 8, 2010 by RupertG
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Update: We discuss this at some length on our latest (and new) podcast. There has been quite a bit of chatter on the web recently regarding the latest errata for D&D 4e from Wizards of the Coast (WotC). The primary … Continue reading →

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Google celebrates 30 years of Pac-Man… and yes, you can still play it…

Posted on May 24, 2010 by RupertG

If you want to continue playing the Google Pac-Man (and who doesn’t), Google has kept it alive at Google Pac-Man (which you can find here…). Continue reading →

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Gamers supporting relief efforts in Haiti

Posted on January 21, 2010 by RupertG
Gamers Help Haiti $20 Mega Bundle

With news of a 6.1 aftershock hitting Haiti today, DriveThruRPG is offering gamers a way to contribute to the relief efforts in Haiti by purchasing a “once in a lifetime collection of games” from their online store for only $20. … Continue reading →

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Possibly the most Goth lamp ever designed

Posted on November 18, 2009 by RupertG
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Designer Mike Thompson has created a lamp that is powered by human blood. His intention was to show how the importance of energy to human existence and how the overexploitation of aforementioned energy could bring about our end. In the … Continue reading →

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Get your friends together – Star Wars Uncut needs your help

Posted on October 8, 2009 by RupertG
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The Star Wars Uncut project is perhaps one of the most awesome projects started online. Basically anyone can claim a 14 second portion of the film to remake in their own fashion. So far there have been acted scenes, animated … Continue reading →

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The Philosophy of Horror

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Cuchulain
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For those of you who love horror fiction and roleplaying, yet also don’t mind a bit of academic/philosophical speculation, let me introduce a wonderful resourse: Collapse volume IV. This is a special edition of an academic journal on philosophy, this … Continue reading →

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Getting Facebook iPhone push notifications without waiting for Facebook App 3.1

Posted on September 13, 2009 by RupertG
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I have discovered a quick and easy way to get Facebook Notifications on your iPhone without having to wait for version 3.1 of the Facebook App to deliver the feature natively (which is still might not do either). While this … Continue reading →

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Take a peek into Neil Gaiman’s Library [Updated]

Posted on September 5, 2009 by RupertG
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If you thought you had a big book collection (and I thought I did with some 1800 volumes..) then you are probably in for a soul crushing experience… In yet another example of a beautiful and highly enviable library, Shelfari … Continue reading →

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