In Defense of Emojis
An emoji with a smile.
Greetings, denizens of the Internet! I got into a conversation earlier this week about emojis. Namely, my fiancé said they made him feel less credible and he was trying to cut back on them. I know quite a few people who feel similarly, as though shortening words or dropping faces into your text somehow makes you less professional in everyday conversation.
E18 YR1- Exploring Dungeon Crawls In Tabletop Role-Playing Games| Game Master Tips Podcast
Wow episode 18 of Nerdarchy the Podcast Year One. This one we dive back into the dungeon with another game master tips. This time we are talking about and discussing dungeon crawls. https://soundcloud.com/david-friant-458990853/e18-yr1-exploring-dungeon-crawls-in-tabletop-role-playing-games-game-master-tips Exploring Dungeon Crawls In Tabletop Role-Playing Games| Game Master Tips https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrwnXmMXEt0 Game Master Tips| Exploring Dungeon...
D&D AARPG IS your grandparents’ Dungeons & Dragons
For this week’s look into streaming RPG programs, there’s a wonderful series put together by Geek & Sundry called D&D AARPG. In this series, writer and actress Amy Vorpahl guides a group of older players through a D&D adventure. Vorpahl handles Dungeon Master duties, while seniors Annie Coty, Bobby Reed and Art are joined by younger players Hector Navarro and Josh Flaum.
Blast from the Past: Scarab of Ra video game for Macs
Scarab of Ra (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
1987. Ah, the good old days. Guns ‘N’ Roses was just hitting big. Nintendo was at the top of the video game market. Spider-Man hadn’t yet been cloned (at least not that we knew of).
A couple of other things happened in 1987.
For one, Apple released its Macintosh SE personal computer, which was a big improvement over earlier Macs and quite a popular computer for the next decade or so even though Apple stopped making the SE in 1990. Sure, the SE was a dull gray and had a bulky mouse, but it came with its own hard drive! Yeah, doesn’t sound like such a big deal now, but it was huge back then.
Another thing that happened in 1987 was a company known as Semicolon Software released a Mac game for shareware. That game? Scarab of Ra.
E17 YR 1- Nerdarchy Get’s Down Right Combative With D&D 5E Combat| Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition Podcast
Time for another episode of Nerdarchy the Podcast Year One. This time we delve into 5e Dungeons and Dragons combat. Our opinions may of changed and evolved since we did this video. It is snapshot in time of where we were with D&D 5E at...
E16 Yr 1- Getting Wise and Weird with the D&D Wizard| Dungeons and Dragons Classes| Podcast
Welcome to another episode of Nerdarchy Year One the podcast. This may very well be one of our longest D&D videos that isn't a game play or Live Chat. This time we are having one of very wizard discussions. This conversation spans our breath of...
Advice on Security and Gaming from an Expert
“Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will follow the wrong-doer to a bitter fate, and dishonor and punishment will be the portion of those who sin.”
― Allan Pinkerton
Security, at its basic concept, is the effort and mindset to keep those people and things one cares about safe. It is a goal I have dedicated over a decade of my life to as my “day job” is that of a security officer. In fact, on this day I continued my training with a defensive tactics, baton, handcuffs, and OC spray refresher course. This brings me to the very point I wish to convey with this article. Security is not the complacent thing that is portrayed in Hollywood and video games. In fact, in my time I have found that most security officers fit into one of very few categories that will be discussed later in this article. None the less, this is the first of what I feel will be many articles on security in gaming.
Help Me Create a City for Nerdarchy
Hey guys, Professor Bill here from Comic Book University, and two things happened on last Friday’s live chat with Nerdarchy. First off, I was promoted. Dave invited me to be a fill-in player for the “Open Legend” game we’ll start playing this Friday (weekly – noon EST) and I said, sure.
New DM Handbook: Implementing Firearms
Last week, I talked about how you can include firearms in your Dungeons & Dragons game. Truthfully, I don’t think I included everything, but I believe it was a good primer for how to think about including firearms into your game. Perhaps in the future I’ll compile a more detailed modern firearms ruleset, which would include a detailed look at what I talked about last week, what I’m going to talk about right now, and other elements I never addressed, but that is then and this is now.
My main focuses here is about class archetypes. While the Monk will require the Way of Gun Fu archetype in order to use modern firearms, the Barbarian, Fighter, Paladin, Ranger, and Rogue classes will be granted proficiency in the identified modern firearms by class.
E15 YR 1- NPCs, Choker, GM Tip And Dungeons And Dragons Monsters Podcast
Time for another podcast mash-up with two of our Year one vids put together into one podcast. This time we have Game Master Tips combined with a Dungeons and Dragons Monsters. On one hand we have an NPC episode and a episode about the monster-...
“Smells Fishy” – Out of the Box D&D Encounters #48
I once found a free adventure online that delved into a concept that D&D has often covered, but essentially in reverse. We have seen Underdark versions of several surface races. Duergar, Derro, Drow, Svirfneblin, etc., have all been a part of D&D for decades, and the public has accepted them as part of the D&D canon. It’s often the case whereby we will take any number of surface races and apply this non-specific “Underdark template” to these races. However, this online adventure did one thing that, at least to my experience, has never been done before – it turned that concept around in 180 degrees. It had surface, swamp dwelling Kuo-Toa. Perhaps this is due to a particular and very popular MMORPG that shall remain unnamed in this article.
E14- YR 1 Freak Vs. Geek (Beholder Vs Lich)| Dungeons and Dragons Monsters Podcast
Episode 14 brings us to a fun little experiment where we pit Dungeons and Dragons monsters against each other. In this case we have a beholder square off against a lich in Screw Attack Death Battle sort of scenario. https://soundcloud.com/david-friant-458990853/e14-yr-1-freak-vs-geek-beholder-vs-lich-dungeons-and-dragons-monsters Monster Vs. Monster with the Freak Vs....
10 Things You Don’t Need to Know About Your RPG Character
There’s a certain kind of player, and I myself am one, who just wants to know everything about their character and has a tendency to overthink it. If you’re one of those, this article is for you. None of these are things you absolutely have to know the answers to, but they can be fun to think about. So if you’re the kind of player who spends way too much away-from-table time thinking about your PC, have fun with this.
1 – What does your character smell like?
E13- Yr 1 Lycanthropes Baring Their Fangs and Sharpening Their Claws| Dungeons and Dragons Monsters Podcast
Our trek through memory lane continues with the Nerdarchy Year One podcast. We have more Dungeons and Dragons Monsters for you. This time we explore lycanthropes in the D&D game. Men and women cursed to obey savage lusts and compelled by the moon to take...
Scarlet Sisterhood is a different kind of streaming RPG
Moving closer to home this week, I’m taking a look at a live streaming RPG show that has grown to become one of my favorites to watch. The Scarlet Sisterhood of Steel & Sorcery is streaming live every Wednesday evening at 7 p.m. EST on Nerdarchy’s YouTube channel. Each week, DM Nerdarchist Dave hosts Staff Writers Megan Miller and Samantha Karr with gamer girl and Nerdarchy fan Vex on their D&D 5E adventures in and around Gryphongaffe, Nerdarchy’s homebrew campaign setting.
