Casual Encounters with Discreet Dragons in Dungeons Near You
Wizards of the Coast has begun something called Dungeons & Dragons: Encounters this week. Apparently it’s not filthy nerd sex, which is probably for the best. It’s a new style of D&D which is more pick-up-and-play than the regular version, allowing for groups to have a single, stand-alone adventure in a session of 1-2 hours. These are held at local nerd shoppes, so if you want to join in, you can enter your zip code here and find out where the nearest games to you are being run.
While I should probably make fun of this, it actually seems like a pretty good idea. I’m sure these things are more simplified that most dedicated role-players would like, but having the ability to run a quick adventure without killing 4-6 hours sounds like a nice option any gaming group would like to have. Not as nice as me finding my goddamn 2nd Edition Player’s Handbook, but pretty nice nonetheless. (Via Geeks Are Sexy)
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.