Category: Muskrat Ramblings

IT MUST BE MINE: Occasional reviews of various things Cool and Otherwise DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS RECORD SHEETS Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Page Count: 12 Price: $9.95 OK. If I’m gonna do some reviewing here, I really want to focus on the positive, rather than the negative. To point people towards what is good and […]

The Only Spam Haiku I could get out of Today’s Spam (Depending on Whether you Pronounce “Failure” “Fai-u-lar” or not) By John Kovalic, and his Spammers Girl takes down five guys baby borned with two privates failure notice Well, Apart From This One, If You’re Gonna Be Pedantic About It By John Kovalic, and his […]

PRESS RELEASE TO ALL MEDIA EIGHTH ANNUAL DIANA JONES AWARD SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED Annual award “for Excellence in Gaming” to be presented 13th August, 2008 London, 4th July — After much debate, the shortlist for the eighth annual Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming, covering the year 2007, has been announced. The Diana Jones Award […]

Remember this strip? From Friday? I did not know – honest – that last Friday was the honest-to-god anniversary of the Potemkin mutiny. I actually had written the comic strip months ago (on the banks of the Themes), and only ran it because I didn’t want to start the 4E series on a Friday. **** […]

I’ve read three books so far this year on gaming. All have been just terrific. I’ve already talked about “Achtung, Schweinhund.” I’ll be posting on the thoroughly enjoyable “The Elfish Gene” soon. The third book was kindly sent to me by its author: “Game Night,” by Jonny Nexus. I read it over the last weekend […]

OK. This is basically it. I wanted to take both tables to 200. So, sorry for the brief 120-variation “um, roll a D12, kinda” interim version. I’m pretty sure has kept up with the additions at of one of the online app version. Bottom line: Done now. Testing it, I’ve come up with: Muskrat Dirtydevil […]

The designers of Dungeons and Dragons 4th edition must be having a real roller-coaster time, at the moment. On the one hand, this epic labor of love is finally in readers’ hands, to much acclaim. On the other hand, it will be slowly nibbled to death by gerbils as every gamer under the sun points […]

Can you believe it’s been nine years since I did this strip for Comic Shop News? Sorry about running repeats this week. I was all set with what I hoped would be a great series of strips on 4th Edition. Unfortunately, a few things came up. Specifically, many, many massive thunderstorms that hit our little […]

A confession: I pre-ordered D&D 4th Edition from Amazon.com. Not because of their prices, no. Not because I don’t try and support my local stores at every possible opportunity. Again: no…a thousand times, no! I pre-ordered it from Amazon simply because I thought I might forget when the books would be released, and miss the […]

I’m still shocked – SHOCKED – that I enjoy Top Chef as much as I do. Compared to the clusterf**k that is “The Next Food Network Star,” however, it’s absolute Peabody-winning Must-See-TV. It will be interesting, this final battle between Richard and Stephanie. Let’s hope neither slips up. I can’t see Lisa even in the […]