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ePawn Arena Ushers in a New Era of Board Gaming

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ePawn Arena combines traditional board games with digital elements to make board game type gaming more interactive. This device detects physical gaming pieces that it recognizes and interacts with, making the possibilities endless.…

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January 14th, 2012 by: Conner Flynn

Wizard Infinite Nachos T-Shirt: Roll for Salsa

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This wicked mage picked up his skills by reading both spellbooks and cookbooks. His spell sure comes in handy when you’re needing food badly. I wonder what school of arcane magic teaches this spell. Conjuration? Evocation? Transmutation?…

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August 30th, 2011 by: Lambert Varias

The Essentials T-Shirt: This is How We Rolled

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Before these fancy electronic games, there was a time when gameplay was decided not by a team of programmers, but by one ruthless DM. When “massively multiplayer”… meant having 8 players in your party at once. When one’s fate was decided not by the number crunching of sterile software, but

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August 8th, 2011 by: Lambert Varias

Black Phoenix RPG Perfume: Smell Good. Or Lawful. Or Chaotic.

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Have you ever wondered what evil smells like? What about an Orc? Or a Paladin? If so, you might want to check out the RPG perfume oil series by Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab. The perfume oils come in 5ml vials, and are separated into three categories that players of D&D…

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April 24th, 2011 by: Lambert Varias

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D20 Soap: Roll for Freshness

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You’ll never fail a Cleanliness check with the D20 Geeksoap.

This 4 oz bar – dice? – of soap is made of “natural oatmeal-based vegetable glycerin and moisturizers, enriched with aloe and vitamin E” and comes in several scents. Be careful when using it though, it’s pointed corners might score…

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April 2nd, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Inflatable D20 Makes for Nerdy Pool Parties

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Take this with you to the beach and you’ll certainly be the center of attention, mostly because a lot of people won’t know what the heck this huge polygon with numbers is.

No one’s stopping you from actually using it to play D&D, just make sure your friends are okay…

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January 28th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Smash Bros. Characters Given D&D-Style Alignments: Fanboys & Fangirls Debate!

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Nintendo’s wildly popular Smash Bros.… franchise is a dimension-shattering, world-colliding crossover in itself, but deviantART member Nakabeast added another delicious layer of nerdity by assigning Dungeons & Dragons alignments to some of the series’ most popular characters, like series newcomer Solid Snake:

If you think about it, Solid Snake can’t

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November 12th, 2009 by: Lambert Varias

Surfacescape Redefines Tabletop Gaming

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Anything that starts out of a suggestion from Penny-Arcade’s Mike Krahulik & Jerry Holkins – aka Gabe & Tycho – is bound to be geeky, and this one is no exception. The duo visited the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University and ended up chatting with a bunch of…

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October 24th, 2009 by: Lambert Varias

Jones-Ing for Some Dungeons & Dragons Soda

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Sometimes I’m still surprised by how mainstream, nay, cool… geeks and nerds have become, and that there are lots of products that are just eager to win the geek’s attention (and money). Video game conventions now draw huge crowds, there are a billion tech websites as of this writing, movies

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September 20th, 2009 by: Lambert Varias

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