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I’ve been a gamer to varying degrees for roughly two dozen years and I’ve seen all manner of software come and go when it comes to gaming supplies. For many years, smaller companies have tried to take on the Big Boys in an effort to squeeze out some small piece of the market pie. The problem is that gaming is, at least for most of us, a hobby. Hobbies sometimes get a good chunk of people’s spending cash, but I’ve always delighted in the fact that gaming can be inexpensive.

Yes. Inexpensive. Aside from the basic rulebooks, a pad of paper, some pens and pencils, and a set of dice, I’ve spent very little directly on the hobby of gaming. Practically nothing. That’s what I want to talk about today – software that costs us nothing and yet is greatly useful for your gaming group. Read the rest of this entry »

NaNoNoteBook

Art fans – a warning: this isn’t really art related, but I wanted to ‘offer this up to the world’, so the more spots I can place it, the better.

I think that I’m going to take part in NaNoWriMo this year. I’ve never done it before, but it seems like a Really Good Thing™, so here goes.

As many of you who know me personally know, I’m a huge fan of Jeremy Ruston’s free wiki notebook TiddlyWiki. I’m currently working on a modification of that delightful file for use by authors – especially NaNo authors.

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