Wizards recently gave their customers the finger and ceased PDF sales. Hardly late-breaking news but still worth discussing! CLICK HERE to check out David Spark’s “Be The Voice” blog and podcast. It’s nothing to do with gaming but it’s interesting stuff!

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I go off on a bit of rant this week about something that’s been driving me nuts lately: wargame players that show up to the table with no idea what their army faction does. Enjoy!

This episode is sponsored by GM Dice

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Yeah, yeah… everyone’s done an episode about D&D 4th Edition but I just had to jump on the bandwagon.

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The story of Gen Con’s financial woes continues. Click here for the documentation mentioned in this episode about Gen Con’s Chapter 11 filing.

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The Dragonlance movie is here in all its jiggly-breasted glory! Fan-boys the world over are clamoring over each other to tell you why this movie sucks and I’m here to tell you that it’s not all that bad.

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The gaming hobby lost a true pioneer today. Venerable Dungeons and Dragons pioneer Gary Gygax passed away at the age of 69. Although I never knew the man personally I pay homage to him and the hobby he helped create in today’s epiosde.

Gary Gygax, Gaming Luminary (1938-2008)

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It looks like Gen Con’s in some hot water. Lucasfilm filed papers in January of 2008 asserting that Gen Con owes them $650,000, $150,000 of which represents the proceeds from a charity auction that were to go to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Additional, on February 15th of 2008, Gen Con filed for Chapter 11. Are these two events related? It would seem so from my vantage-point. Here are some links:

Lucasfilm’s case filing Gen Con’s Chapter 11 press release

I’m not sure what happened with the audio quality on this episode but I’ll try and get it sorted out for the next show. Sorry!

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There’s nothing better than having a really good local game store but there’s also nothing worse than a not-so-friendly local gaming store run by guys like this:

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