"Monster Protection Program", a series of kids' books about a government program that takes monsters who are in danger and hides them out among regular people.

Has Pintsize been possessed by Yelling Bird? This seems very out of character for him.

I have three days to write an epic, campaign-ending adventure, and all I have is "They fight really powerful demons".

Mike Stilkey paints books. (Which I got to via a BoingBoing link to another art post ( Read more... )

A litany of complaints about shopping at hp.com ( Read more... )

For the last few weeks, when my macbook tries to connect to my wireless, it returns with an IP configuration error: "192.168.0.102 in use by 00:23:7d:8e:f5:89, DHCP server 192.168.0.1 ( Read more... )

What is the typical, min, and max time alloted for gaming slots at gaming conventions of your experience?

At Owlcon, all of our slots are 4 hours, and there are occasionally requests to relax this rigidity. (Many board games are shorter, leaving dead time in board gamers' schedules, and some RPGs and other games are longer.)

In my experience, in an RPG, if anybody who is not immediately recognizable as a motivating protagonist-ally starts trying to tell the PCs what to do, the PCs start mouthing off, asking impertinent questions, and generally failing to cooperate in any way ( Read more... )

Oath of Fealty, Elizabeth Moon, March 16th.

That is all.

I'm a bit more than halfway through Iorich now, the new Vlad novel from Steven Brust. It is the best he's done since Issola, and is dominated by the things Brust does best in this series, primarily Vlad figuring out a complicated plot (or a plot far beyond his experience) and then stopping it. (Although Vlad is being led by the nose through the ( Read more... )