Koboldnomicon cover sneak preview

With the print and PDF release of the Koboldnomicon only a few weeks away, Bards & Sages have released a sneak peek at the cover (PDF format).

Blizzard artist does a WoW Webcomic

When I was at Blizzard, Rob Pardo bemoaned that his War3 team was so pro-dwarf, all the high elf units kept getting cut during production. He had to fight to keep some around for the Alliance — whenever there was a choice of two redundant units to cut, it was the pointy ears types who always got it first. (Obviously, this was rectified to a certain degree in the Frozen Throne expansion.)

It’s pretty easy to see where Samwise falls in the elves vs. dwarves preferences: He’s one of the pro-dwarf types. (So are Jenn and I, for the record.)

Now Sammy has even made a Webcomic about The Last Dwarf, set centuries after the time of the Warcraft games, where the elves have betrayed the dwarves and only one survives to fight back. Mouse over the panels to see them animate. The comics are designed for a slightly larger resolution than 1024 x 768.

(Thanks to Widge for the link.)

Pre-order the Koboldnomicon PDF

For those of you who just can’t wait for kobold goodness (and if you know what kobolds are, odds are, you can’t wait), you can get a jump on the print version of the Koboldnomicon (including spells and the kobold wizard Wikanby by yours truly) and even the PDF version by pre-ordering the PDF version at the ENWorld Game Store.

Woo hoo! Only a few short days or weeks (I’m not 100 percent sure) before the print version shows up at Amazon.com and my nerdiness is enshrined in a hard copy version for posterity.

The Dancing Editor

At long last, I’ve uploaded the very first video shot with my phone to You Tube:

Enjoy! I will likely be looking for work after this, so keep me in mind …

• Other Hesperia videos at You Tube, although a few of them are for other Hesperias.

Games for Change

Heard this on the (podcasted) radio: Video-Game Designers Target World Peace

A group of game designers says taht video-game technology can help save the world by raising humanitarian awareness. The creators of free educational games such as Darfur is Dying and PeaceMaker met with humanitarian activists during the third-annual Games for Change conference in New York.

When I was in college, a neighbor in the fraternity house had a game on his Mac where one played the Prime Minister of Israel trying to bring about Middle East peace. Nuclear war, terrorism, arms embargoes and all the rest were part of the equation. It wasn’t an easy game. It sounds like it was a precursor to the modern Peacemaker.

It sounds like this was a pretty interesting conference.