Dave Arneson R.I.P.

Dave Arneson, the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, has passed away due to cancer. Dave created the first campaign called Blackmoor and later worked with Gygax to create the original Dungeons and Dragons.

Dave Arneson's Wikipedia Entry

Gary Gygax himself passed away last year due to heart failure.

Like Gary Gygax, I'm glad I got the opportunity to meet with Dave Arneson a couple of years back at GenCon and thank him for the work he did that inspired such a fascinating and creative social dynamic.

A New Place to Blather

Long time no blog! There's two main reasons for this; first off is that work's been crazy and any downtime is spent doing other things to relax. The second is that I've been mostly drawn into an even easier way to post events to share with people: Facebook. I don't tend to write personal essays for the world to see, so having a place where I can restrict my expositions to trusted friends works out much better for me. Plus I can post pictures and notes from my iPhone - technology rocks!

So if you're looking for more frequent updates from me, jump on Facebook and look me up. It's kinda creepy at first because you have all kinds of friends, family, and schoolmates coming out of the woodwork after a decade to get back in touch with you - it's like a cult. The important thing is to only let people you trust connect with you, don't put any information on their you don't mind getting out occasionally, and learn to love the "Block this Application" option from people if you're not in to getting a tonne of app requests.

"Charmingly Self-Effacing"

So in a recent interview I was refered to as "charmingly self-effacing". Considering it was an English game journalist at an American game studio I'd like to think that he meant "Canadian"! :-)

To show that I'm not completely self-effacing, here's a couple of my recent online interviews:

They Are The Champions Online: Randy Mosiondz at Rock, Paper, Shotgun.

Champions Online Interview 1 at GameSpot.

Woot! Although the video interview makes me totally self-conscious. I should really get some sun and lose a few pounds...

Pop-Monkey Stuff...: "Pac-Samurai"

Fantastic!

Pop-Monkey Stuff...: "Pac-Samurai"

I ordered a print for framing a couple of days ago.