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Civilization at Last!

Sid Meier’s Civilization: A New Dawn board game is one of our family favorites. It just needed a little … civilizing!

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THE VOID

I was sworn to silence… but now the secret is out! When my son, Curtis, was a boy, he used to create theme parks for the rest of the family in his bedroom. Then in his teens he began performing magic professionally. As he grew to manhood he even began creating illusions for other magicians […]

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Dragonlance and Blarney Stones

It was thirty-three years ago today that my wife and I arrived in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin with our then two children. Our drive had really started four days before when we loaded what little we owned out of our apartment in Logan, Utah onto a moving van and drove south to meet my parents in […]

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Con Man: Quick … Take My Money!

OK, I’m not saying that Alan Tudyk and I are close … although he did let me have a booth next to his at Gencon Australia. And I’m not saying that Nathan Fillion and I are BFFs even though he did take a selfie with Laura and I some years ago which I show off […]

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Underworld Ascendant and Me

I’m delighted to announce that I am slated to write a novel in support of Underworld Ascendant, a Kickstarter project currently being funded online. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed worked with Richard Garriott as the Lead Story Designer for his Shroud of the Avatar MMORPG and was subsequently approached by Otherside Entertainment. As Underworld Ascendant takes place […]

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What I Want for Christmas

As long as I can remember,’what I want for Christmas’ has been the first and most paramount question of the holidays. It starts to rise up from the subconscious shortly before Thanksgiving and  then blossoms full blown in my mind sometime after the turkey-fueled lethargy wears off and pumpkin pie is offered. It is an ageless […]

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Relative Time Approaching the Speed of Life

Or why is this (fill in the blank) project so late? Starting about the time I was in Junior High School, I became fascinated by Einstein’s theories of Relativity. Mind you, my books on the subject were very basic and I had trouble telling the Specific Theory from the General Theory but I had a […]

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Dragonlance Legacy: The Proposal

A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I had uncovered the original Dragonlance Proposal. I thought I might share some of it with you, giving you a sense of our original vision for the series of what was then primarily intended to be adventure modules. It is a remarkable document in its vision of what […]

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Eye of the Dragon: Recreating the Past

How does one recreate the look of a self-made adventure module over thirty years old? With great difficulty, it turns out. Over three and a half decades ago, Laura and I were just recently married and newly introduced to Dungeons & Dragons. Our enthusiasm overflowed into creativity. We wanted something more oriented toward story that […]