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What D&D Character Are You?

Still on the Dungeons and Dragons 4E wagon, here’s a test to determine your D&D race, alignment, and class.

I ended up being a …

Chaotic Good Human Fighter!

You can see the breakdown below. A bit surprising that my Fighter side beat out my Monk side (it’s probably my role-play/gaming vs actual personality), but [...]

“The Secret History of Star Wars” (ebook)

I’ll let the author, Michael Kaminski, introduce his free downloadable book in his own words:

The Secret History of Star Wars is a new full-length e-book exploring the writing and creation of the Star Wars saga. Culled from over 400 sources and filled with quotes from people such as George Lucas, Gary Kurtz and Mark Hamill, [...]

Nomad Log 2008.05/22, Geek Stuff and Lists

Geek Stuff

A New Hope: The Future of Star Wars
R2-D2 Ice Bucket with Han Solo Ice Molds Makes Any Drink Nerdier
‘Street Fighter’ Opens February 27th – After the Van Damme movie, I’m very leery of the words “Street Fighter live-action movie”.  Let’s hope this will be different.
Death Note Manga Spawns Movie, Crime Wave
Vintage Japanese Robots Storm [...]

Nomad Geek/Tech Log 2008.05/12

 Special Note:

Happy Mother’s Day!  Here’s a video game recommendation for every type of mom!
Tubataha Reefs is now #8!  Help push it into the New 7 Wonders of the World!

Geek News:

Speed Racer bombs in the box office (still beaten by Iron – Man).  I’ve been leery of the concept from the beginning, and although I would’ve wanted [...]

Nomad Log 2008.04/18

No news for today, but I have found a great survey, a list of movies I’m looking forward to, and some geek stuff.

Survey

Take the Geek Test!

I got 37.47535% on the 1st try, 43.58974% on the re-test, and a possibility of pushing it to 44.37869% (given the books I plan to get in the next [...]

Gary Gygax: Father of RPGs (1938 – 2008)

Ernest Gary Gygax , co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), passed away last March 4, 2008 at his home in Wisconsin.

I never really got to play the old vanilla D&D that was published under Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. or TSR (the religious zealots insited TSR was an acronym for “To Satan’s Realm”). I did get [...]

NerdTest 2.0

I can’t believe I didn’t score higher in tech/computers. It’s probably because I’m not a gadget freak.

— update 2008.05/08 —
While going through some website maintenance, I noticed that the image above didn’t resolve. The image is supposed to say:

NerdTests.com says I’m an Uber Cool Science Geek. What are you? Click here!”

I wish I saved the [...]