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Alan De Smet, Who? Rants UniqueID Role-Playing Games MS Windows Development Perl Tools Live Role-Playing Resources Data Blog Archives Blogroll Blog RSS/XML Rejoice and be glad, citizens, for it's... Pontifications from the Now in non-treasonous infrared clearance! Saturday, June 15, 2013 Tracey Alley, Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement Tracey Alley is an author of fantasy novels. She is accused of being a plagiarist and a copyright infringer. Read on to see my conclusions. | Permalink | Comments ( ) Friday, February 15, 2013 How True Are Your d20s? and the 1000d4 launch Eva and I have started a dedicated gaming blog, 1000d4 . The first post is the result of 3 and a half years of work (well, 20 hours or so of work spread across 3.5 years): " How True Are Your d20s? " It recreates Lou Zocchi's famous photograph comparing stacks of d20s from several companies, but with modern dice. Oh, an there is a spreadsheet full of numbers, for fans of such things. gaming | Permalink | Comments ( ) Thursday, February 14, 2013 Why Women Cry Why Women Cry , in which I dissect some seemingly innocent glurge about treasuring women and reveal its seedy, sexist underpinnings. | Permalink | Comments ( ) Monday, January 07, 2013 Alternative Medicine and Kiki Havivy Alternative Medicine and Kiki Havivy . Kiki Havivy is just six years old, and alternative medicine is killing her. | Permalink | Comments ( ) Wednesday, October 20, 2010 Reviews: Sherlock, Gigi's Cupcakes The BBC's Sherlock is a fun moderization of Sherlock Holmes. Gigi's Cupcakes is too much frosting and forgettable cake. reviews | Permalink | Comments ( ) Thursday, October 14, 2010 The Indy 500 Job, for the Leverage RPG Want to play Leverage: The Roleplaying Game now, but all you have is The Quickstart Job ? I've written another job " The Indy 500 Job ," based on a job run by one of the game designers at Gen Con Indy 2010. I've run it successfully three times, and I hope it will be useful to others. rpg | Permalink | Comments ( ) Sunday, October 10, 2010 Review: Wicked, the novel and the musical I have reviewed Wicked , both the musical and the novel it is based on. review, novel, musical | Permalink | Comments ( ) Monday, August 23, 2010 Review: Get Lamp I reviewed Jason Scott's interactive fiction (text adventure) documentary Get Lamp . It's a good movie. Fans of interactive fiction, either the modern works or the classics, will likely enjoy this movie. review | Permalink | Comments ( ) Thursday, August 12, 2010 Gen Con Indy 2010 report How my Gen Con Indy 2010 trip went. includes reviews of a bunch of games, minor complaints about how the con and True Dungeon are run and muttering about the unknown fates of White Wolf and Dungeons & Dragons. gaming | Permalink | Comments ( ) Contact webmaster - Copyright 2004 Alan De Smet...