Dungeons and Dragons

Tripod In America! Tripod Versus The Dragon

by podblack on November 24, 2009

As mentioned briefly when I wrote earlier about the show in Melbourne — they’re preparing to head overseas! The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art are hosting them as ‘artists in residence’! Tripod versus The Dragon Saturday, January 30, 2010, 8:00 pm Hunter Center Part Flight of the Conchords and part Tenacious D [actually, they've been [...]

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Little Kitten – Tripod Do Dungeons And Dragons

by podblack on November 3, 2009

If you’re looking for horse racing superstitions? Check out last year’s post, ‘White House, White Horse, Superstitions and the Course‘. If you’re looking for news about Tripod? Much better luck with me today — because they’ll be heading to the USA in 2010! Especially good recent news if you’re in Melbourne, as I’m very envious [...]

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Getting Game, Parenting And Role-Playing

by podblack on October 2, 2008

Domestic Father blog wants to let everyone know that he’s setting up a new blog carnival for skeptical parenting blogs. As he writes himself: ‘Hopefully, it’s not just the skeptical parenting bloggers who will contribute, but some of the less parent focused, and more skep/secular/humanist generalists.‘ I think that’s wonderful and very inclusive. So, without [...]

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Day One, Part Two of Dragon*Con 2008

by podblack on August 30, 2008

Right now, I’m typing whilst sitting on the floor of the conference room for the Skeptic Track. Although the program says that Alison Smith should be presenting, it’s actually Ben Radford, talking about ‘Medium’ and the NBC website providing false information about the biography of Allison DuBois, which they later took down off their pages [...]

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Whoot! I got my second entry in on time! Yes, hop on over to The Giant’s Shoulders #1, hosted by ‘A Blog Around the Clock / Coturnix’! Couple of the dusty but scrummy offerings that got me reading include – 1751 – Linneaus. – Carolus Linnaeus’ Floral Clocks 1884 – Freud. Neurotic Physiology on study [...]

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The following post is for On The Shoulders of Giants — if you’re interested, my earlier entry is here! Traditional board games (such as chess, checkers, Scrabble, Parcheesi) have involved no role-playing on the part of the players, and some have involved a very minimum amount of role-playing within a board setting (such as Monopoly, [...]

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