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I picked up the Dungeons and Dragons Heroscape Master Set: Battle for the Underdark not long ago and finally had a chance to play with my son.I was surprised to find a game that we both enjoyed and has my friends (which are my age) scrambling to buy their own ...

Some people are fond of saying that it isn’t the Earth that needs saving—the Earth will be around long after we’re gone. No, it’s we humans who need saving from ourselves. (Need evidence? Look no further than the Gulf, where another oil rig just caught fire.) 6th Mega is a ...

For every Batman, there’s a Matter-Eater Lad. For every X-Men, there’s a Legion of Super-Pets. There are comic book characters and groups who make it big, and there are those who never find a lasting audience. Only now and then do the obscure characters get noticed, and even more ...

It’s been a tough three years for fans of Lego and the Harry Potter stories. When the theme was discontinued at the end of 2007, many of us despaired of them ever coming back. When Lego and Warner Brothers announced earlier this year that six new sets would be coming ...

Whether you’re a foodie or somebody who feels like eating just takes up time that could be better used for important things (like playing games), if you’re here on GeekDad you’d probably appreciate any tips on making cooking geekier, right? We’ve mentioned the Star Wars Cookbooks before and last fall ...

I was contacted by a friend from the comics world about the new Intervention convention. Intrigued, I checked out the workshop list. My first thought after looking at it was “Ooo! A con that talks about web comics and how to create them.” The workshops go beyond the simple nuts and ...

Since it debuted in 1969, Scooby-Doo! has always been about snacking, solving mysteries, snacking and unmasking phony monsters (except for a few excursions into "monsters are real" territory that are generally best forgotten). And did I mention the snacking?

Yet again, I’ve got my daughter to thank. It was on her recommendation back in January that I picked up — and plowed through — Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games and its sequel, Catching Fire, which means I now owe her for the experience of reading the trilogy-concluding Mockingjay, just ...

Brandon Sanderson is currently finishing Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series.  He is also starting his own 10-part epic fantasy series, The Stormlight Archive–in fact, volume one, The Way of Kings is now available, and Sanderson is going on tour today (8/31) to promote it.  Meanwhile, the next volume in ...