Jones is making a limited run of D&D themed sodas. Made with pure cane sugar.
I’m so gonna get me some of that!
BTW, next week (Feb 28 – March 6) is Read an RPG Book in Public week. Be there and be square!
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Oh. My. Gods.
Monday, February 22nd, 2010The missing link
Thursday, November 26th, 2009I forgot the link to the D&D treasure generator.
1st Edition Dungeons & Dragons treasure generator now online
Thursday, November 26th, 2009The first (butt-ugly) iteration of an online treasure (and Other Stuff, e.g. spells, random encounters, dungeons, etc) generator is now online!
I hesitate to release it while it’s so ugly, but it all works, and they say “release early, release often”.
If you find yourself with the burning need to generate the treasure hoard for a den of giant rats or a red dragon, and you have a web browser, I gotcha covered!
Oh yeah, the link: http://bobbymartin.name/dnd1e/
1st edition D&D treasure generator
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009Old school nerd^2
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009I’ve been doing my nerding out lately building a git repository of python scripts that look up values in tables, and support things like random lookups and tables whose values refer to subtables.
Of course, the point of this was to pull in all the old first edition Dungeons and Dragons tables and generate treasure (including magic and generating the list of spells on each scroll), random encounters, etc.
If you find yourself in desperate need of a way to quickly generate the hoard for an ancient huge white dragon, I’ve got you covered. Or if you have some other batch of tables that you’d like to generate values from, drop me a comment and I’ll ship you my code.
At some point, I may build a little Choose Your Own Adventure style wiki-thing that lets you create CYOA adventures, complete with combat tables and random effects. Then you can send your buddies links to the online adventure you created.
Oh yeah, the link: http://bobbymartin.name/dnd1e/
Nintendo dance
Thursday, July 9th, 2009This kid is brilliant. No pic of this could do it justice, so just trust me and click through.
Hacking my Wii, part 2
Thursday, May 21st, 2009If CIOS installation fails
I’m on firmware 4.0u. When I tried to install the CIOS wad (IOS16-64-v257.wad) or any other wad, I got the error “Installing ticket… Err ret=-2011″. After lots of churning, I finally found this link, which fixed it! http://www.wiihacks.com/general-homebrew-hack-issues/14650-how-downgrade-sys-menu-4-no-cios.html
Now I can finally save my game disks to my usb hard drive, and play them from there!
I also got a little more information about the various custom IOSes that made me feel a little better about installing new IO systems on my Wii. Apparently each numbered IOS is stored separately in the Wii, so e.g. if you install a custom IOS, unless it is explicitly designed to overwrite one of the IOSes used by Nintendo, it doesn’t affect them. Apps that use that IOS number won’t run unless you install it.
Hacking my Wii
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009(Hrm, sounds like that thing I had my urologist do…)
So, I hacked my Wii. I was running the 4.0 firmware, so the Twilight Hack wouldn’t work, but the new BannerBomb worked like a champ.
I chose to install the DVDx and Homebrew Channel, but not the HackMii. The info I read on that one led me to believe it wasn’t sufficiently tested.
Here is the website: http://bannerbomb.qoid.us/, and here is the SD image I used. You should be able to just copy the contents into the root of a FAT32 or FAT16 SD card, install in your Wii, follow the instructions on the website, and be done. The SD image is using aad1f_v104.zip which worked the first time for me.
Of course, I can’t take any responsibility if this wrecks your Wii 
Still waiting for IOS 11 to come out of beta so I can set my Wii up to back up & restore game, which is why I actually hacked it in the first place. My four year old keeps ruining games by using them to ski across the floor.
Oh, and for some reason GeexBox craps out on the audio when it plays the avis I ripped from VHS. Which is weird, because the audio is PCM – about as simple as it gets. And weird because other avis play just fine, with audio.
Update:
If you have problems loading wads, see part 2. No need for IOS 11.
Star Wars Episode I reimagined as an RPG campaign
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Darths and Droids
Darths & Droids is a re-imagining of Star Wars Episode I as a pen-n-paper role playing campaign. It’s written in the form of a webcomic, using screencaps from the movie for the cartoon frames.
If you like pen-n-paper RPGs, or know enough about them to get the “in” jokes, you should love it.
If not, feel free to comment mocking the rest of us dorks.
It was inspired by DM of the Rings, but in my opinion Darths & Droids is better executed (and funnier).
If your role playing isn’t addictive enough…
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
These guys have about a hundred RPG motivational posters.