Dr. Mrs. The Nerd: Leveling your new Skylanders - Fast!

If you're like Chan & I, you saw Skylanders in a store for the first time and immediately became addicted. We've been collecting the tiny, adorable characters ever since, and have amassed about ten or twelve of them at this point. If you're less spastic/neurotic/easily swayed by cute figurines than us, you might have the game and a few figures.

Sadly, our collection has never looked this shiny or epic.

Either way, if you're "done" with the main story arc of the game and you've bought new Skylanders since, you might want to level them up and get all of their super cool abilities without having to replay through all of those levels again. If you want to fudge your way to fully-leveled Skylanders with all of their powers, we've learned a few tricks in the past week or so and we thought it would be nice to compile them here, possibly to aide other gamers hoping to similarly outsmart the system. Yes, we are kind of cheaters. So what.

New Thrills with Old Skills

     I have to admit, I've been away from DnD4E for quite some time. I just stopped having fun with the system and I was really tempted by the Indie Gaming bug (I still am, by the way. #ApocalypseWorld for life!). However, the new adventure kit titled The Madness at Gardmore Abbey has really renewed my hope for the product and I can't wait to run it for my players.

     But that's not what has me really excited. Y'see, I started reading through some articles that were posted recently by Sarah Darkmagic  and Mike Mearls .They discuss some of the issues with the Skill System that's in place and it really reminded me of why I enjoy Story Based games.

     So, in short, I've decided to try this system out with my new group!

Dr. Mrs. The Nerd: DnD - Heroes of Neverwinter

Hi! I'm Emily, but you can call me Dr. Mrs. The Nerd. I'm here to talk to you about the new Dungeons and Dragons game on facebook despite my serious lack of DnD knowledge and/or experience with RPGs and blogging! I guess you could say I'm a "new gamer," and maybe I can provide a different point of view on nerdy things that I - and others - enjoy.

AW/ZW : More Development

So it's officially Monday! Time for some Apocalypse World / Zombie World Hack ideas!

Zombiepocalypse World

As some of you may have guessed from my tweets, I'm a huge fan of Vincent Baker's Apocalypse World. It is definitely my latest "jam," per se, and it has been occupying a large portion of my games of late. Well, when one game fell through, several people were left to sit around a living room. We decided we'd try a quick and dirty hack of AW, turning it into Zombiepocalypse World!

Minecraft 1.8 part 1!

Holy crap, today's the day! Minecraft's 1.8 Update!

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      So this brings a ton of additional functionality to an already fun experience. It really gave a breath of life back into the game for me. Let me show you some of the stuff they've added.

Deus ex Libellus Part 1

What would you say if you found a little book and it looked like this...