Do you know the origin of “It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this.”? It comes from the original Legend of Zelda game. Here is the famous scene. Since then we geeks have made the phrase famous. You can encounter the combination of warning and generosity in all sorts of unexpected places and references. Etsy trader […]
Rodarte do high Star Wars fashion
In a galaxy far, far away from geek culture there was a fashion week. This fashion week, hold in New York, like so many events before it has been touched by the greatness of geek. The fashion house Rodarte modelled some Star Wars themed dresses. Fashion fans saw Luke Skywalker, Yoda, C-3P0, R2-D” and even […]
T-Shirt: With Lovecraftian Darwinism you need to be a quick study
It’s not all that usual to see a sales page for a t-shirt say; “Oh god! What is that? What is that? KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!”. That’s exactly the pitch for this Threadless Designs t-shirt by Alanbao. The Threadless voting process tallied up 1683 votes for this design and it scored 3.46 out of 5 […]
Shipping Evil to the UK: A Redbubble review
This post was made possible by Redbubble who provided a coupon to pay for the items I bought to test the system. I decided to try and purchase pure evil and see if it made it through UK customs. I’ll touch on the reasons for that in just a bit. If you read any geeky […]
Unofficial Dungeons & Dragons 40th anniversary t-shirt
R.J. Thompson writes the OSR blog Gamers & Grognards and has an eye on a big birthday. Dungeons & Dragons was published in 1974. This means that 2014 will be the RPGs 40th birthday. In fact, D&D’s 40th might be this month. Jon Peterson, an author who investigates the history of games, suggests the exact […]
Your very own dwarven pipe
The talent at Engrossed Designs have carved a pipe that might appeal to Gandalf himself. The bowl of the pipe is 1.5 inches deep and the stem, which can detach, is about 8 inches long. Tempted? Fancy trying to blow a smoke ring or three? You can buy the handmade creation over on Etsy. A […]
Trenzalore ’tis a silly place
We know warning; On the fields of Trenzalore, at the fall of the eleventh, when no living creature can speak falsely or fail to answer, a Question will be asked. A question that must never, ever be answered. It was spoken by Dorium Maldovar before he became a Headless Monk. There is another saying. It […]
Doctor Who: Gallifreyan ring
This Doctor Who tungsten ring is inspired by the circular Gallifreyan alphabet. It’s handmade, made to to order, 10mm think and available on Etsy from FANatic Creations. Tempted? What would you wear to Trenzalore?
T-Shirt: I cast magic missile!
Need a t-shirt to wear while you GM? need a t-shirt to wear to wind up your GM? It may well be worth summoning up a magic missile, then. After all; these crazy bolts of magic do a handy 1d4+1 damage and when you’re a low level wizard that’s not to be sniffed at. […]
The Blue Kraken and motherboard dragons
The Blue Kraken is the online store for deviant artist Amanda Rethman. Amanda creates some fantastic fantasy jewellery out of circuit boards and metal. As she says; this is material that others have ceased to find useful. Check out some of these dragons.
