Geeks' Cant

07/08/2024

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02/08/2024

It's that time of year and I am back at Gen Con.
If you're here, come say Hi at the Elderwood Academy booth ( #1549).

01/08/2024

28/05/2024

Hey Facebook friends. I am not sending out friend requests. If you get one, it's not me.

09/05/2024

What a day, a week, a month, heck... the past couple of years it has been.

As of 11:11 am this morning, I am no longer employed with World of Game Design. Not my favorite thing to have manifested, but that's the way the dice roll.

I type those words with mixed emotions.
To say it has been a wild ride would be an incredible understatement, to say the least.

The people I have met, relationships that have developed, the creators I have worked with, the projects I have been a part of, the connections I have made, and the skills and talents that I have developed have all been great and eye opening!

I don't know what the future has in store for me, but this won't be the last the gaming industry will be seeing or hearing from me. I'm not sure where I will land, but you can bet it will be very dramatic and in a three-point superhero stance!

Play great games, and if you know, you know.

~Uncle Troy

14/04/2024

I haven't done one of these in a while, but I feel compelled to give everyone a fair warning...

I went to see the movie Monkey Man last night. The best parts of the movie were the teaser trailers and my pretzel bites.
If you have issues with motion sickness or don't like this right up in your face, definitely steer clear of this movie. The only 2 camera techniques the director (and star of the movie) knows is close up and continuously move the camera in nonsensical patterns. 5 minutes into the movie I wanted to yell at it to get out of my face. To understand how the movie is shot, get 5 inches away from everything you do or look at for the next 2 hours while randomly bobbling your head around. There are only maybe 5 scenes in the entire movie that are shot from a normal range and none of them last long enough to provide any relief.
The writer (who is also the director and star) filled the script with almost every revenge action movie trope you can think of. Unfortunately, even with a 2 hour runtime, none of them have a chance to payoff with any satisfaction.
It's like what if your average 12 year old wrote a story and tried to combine John Wick, Bloodsport, Rocky, Enter the Dragon, Taken, Man on Fire, and then sprinkled in political and religious conflicts for added flavor and confusion.
I guess I a little surprised there weren't aliens or time travel thrown in somehow.

I don't know that I've ever walked out of a movie due to how bad it is. After the first 10 minutes, I wanted to leave. The trailers were over and my pretzel bites gone. But I stayed. Why? I have no idea.

Brad Trimble, this one is your fault.

25/03/2024

Story time

24/03/2024

Well Gary Con, it was another awesome convention. Til next year!

24/03/2024

Gary Con... Last day.

What an amazing trip.

22/03/2024

Day 2 of Gary Con!
Yesterday was a roller-coaster that ended absolutely AMAZING! It's not often that the highlight of a convention happens on the first day. I'll save that story for later.

21/03/2024

Day 1!
Good morning Gary Con!

20/03/2024

Lake Geneva... I'm here...

I landed at tbe resort about 30 mins ago. It's the calm before the storm.

09/02/2024

Hanging with Dillon from Critical Crafting at Wintwr Fantasy.
Go check out their stuff and definitely take a look at the Big Chungas!

23/10/2023

Gamehole Con 2023...

That's a wrap!

20/10/2023

Lo! There do I see the harbinger of my doom and my path into Valhalla!!!

19/10/2023

Welcome to the booth. What's your poison?

18/10/2023

Gamehole Con bound!

15/10/2023

New York Comic Con 2023...
That's a wrap!

09/10/2023

Tonight, it's murder most foul when we talk to the folks from Hunt A Killer!

Join us at 9 PM CT on
https://www.twitch.tv/wogdlive

04/10/2023

Do your combat rounds take too long? Does your game seem to grind to a halt as soon as initiative starts? Is combat in D&D (and other RPGs) too slow?
Join the knuckleheads as they talk about why this might be and ways to fix (or embrace) it.

9:00 PM CT on https://www.twitch.tv/wogdlive

01/10/2023

So your gaming group has been embiggened to the point of being hard to manage. The guys have all been there so they might actually have some good advice. For an adjacent topic, the knuckleheads will take on why combats seem so slow.

Join in tonight at 9 PM CT on https://www.twitch.tv/wogdlive and add your $.02.

27/09/2023

Is there one system that rules them all?? Can a company's house system work for all of their IPs? What if they change it too much? When does the system stop being the system?

Are you confused yet? Well you can bet the knuckleheads will be, too.
Join them tonight at 9 PM CT on https://www.twitch.tv/wogdlive