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Site Updates: Calendar Added, Nav Working

February 25th, 2010 by nukehavoc

The calendar page is now up and running; I have some minor CSS tweaking to do, but the calendar itself is functional. For those who are curious, this calendar uses a WordPress plugin to display a calendar created and maintained in Google Calendar.

Welcome to the New GriffCrier!

February 24th, 2010 by nukehavoc

The Griffin’s Crier has been the home page the Blackrazor Guild since 1997. For most of that time, it served as the repository for information about our long-running World of Greyhawk campaign, a task that since been taken over by our Greyhawk wiki. With the wiki operational — and with more and more group members blogging — we decided to re-configure the GriffCrier to serve as a portal for our web content.

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Off the Bookshelf: Cole Protocol, Skies of Pern, Century Rain March 15, 2010
After a fiendishly busy January and February, I've finally had a chance to take a deep breath and spend some time reading. First up on my early spring reading list is The Cole Protocol by Tobias Buckell, a Halo Universe novel involving the quest to prevent the alien Covenant from securing navigation data leading to Earth. On deck is The Skies of Pern by […]
GameCryer.com: Six-Shooters & Spaceships reviewed March 13, 2010
The Six-Shooters & Spaceships sourcebook for the Serenity RPG provides plenty of what a body needs to stay alive in Joss Whedon’s space western universe: weapons, equipment and spaceships. My review of the book is up on GameCryer.com. It's not an essential book, but it is a useful one as it introduces a variety of low and high tech items (livestock, […]
Game Day: Return to the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth March 5, 2010
After many months away from the game, my group is returning to Dungeons & Dragond 3rd Edition for an old school dungeon crawl through the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth using the D&D 3.5 version released in 2007. I've got mixed feelings about this. While I owned the Lost Caverns as a kid and read through it cover to cover several times, I never had a […]

The Fat Cat Inn

First Impressions - Valkyria Chronicles March 15, 2010
There are a few games that make me wish I had a PS3 instead of a 360. Don't get me wrong, I love the 360 as that's where all my friends are, but there are a few games I'd love to play. One of those games is Valkyria Chronicles.I've been a fan of Strategy RPG's (SRPGs) since Shining Force. So I like to at least try as many as I can. L […]
First Impressions - Heavy Rain March 13, 2010
Last weekend I had access to a PS3 and got to play one of the most interesting RPG's I've played in a long time. The game in question was Heavy Rain.If you haven't heard of it, or if you were like me and didn't pay attention because you don't have a PS3, the plot of the game is fairly simple. You take on the role of four different pe […]
On the Radar - Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey March 4, 2010
There are several reasons I'm excited for Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey which releases this March 23:The game is being published by Atlus, who IMHO has a fantastic track record.I loved Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 and Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4. Sure I haven't beaten either game yet, but that's because they are so damn long. The game […]

Books LIke Dust

Olympos by Dan Simmons March 15, 2010
One of the things about sequels is that they must live up to the legacy of their predecessor. This is true in movies, but just as true in books as well.One thing that can be said about the universe Simmons creates is that it is interesting, but incomplete. In this setting, we have technologically advanced post humans posing as Greek gods ("Any sufficien […]
On the Short Shelf I March 5, 2010
I don't know if you are the same, but buying books gives me a little bit of an endorphin shot -- it just feels good. While invariably this means I have more books unread, it does mean that I never lack for reading material.I picked up some books today, and ordered a few from Amazon. So what's on the "short shelf" for reading in the near f […]
Illium by Dan Simmons February 22, 2010
Hector. Paris. Achilles the Man-slayer. Helen. Menelaus. Agamemnon. These are the names from the epic The Illiad by the blind-poet Homer. Some would say it is a complete flight of fancy, while others feel there is a kernel of truth wrapped in centuries of elaboration and divine motivations to explain inexplicable events. What if, however, it is an exact rete […]

Short, Controlled Bursts

Aliens vs. Predator: the Marine Campaign Review March 2, 2010
A stand-up fight, or just another bug hunt? After finishing Aliens vs. Predator’s Marine story last night, I wanted to post some thoughts. In a nutshell, die-hard fans of the franchise need not despair at the game’s mediocre critical reception – AvP is solid, playable, and fun. Rebellion has done a fantastic job with pacing and tension-building, [...] […]
Aliens vs Predator: Resist the Lure of the Hive Mind! February 23, 2010
I came to an epiphany this morning. (Sure, it was a trivial and geeky epiphany, but don’t be judging on my epiphanies, man!) After reading the mixed critical reviews of Aliens vs Predator last week, I had decided not to purchase the game, or to at least hold off until the price dropped. I realized that I [...] […]
Mass Effect 2: Class Consciousness January 26, 2010
So, here I am, hot new copy of Mass Effect 2 in hand, work day complete, free time carved out, and ready to head home for some sweet, sweet sci fi gaming. Everything should be awesomesauce for Lance. Except one little thing – for the life of me, I can’t decide which class I want [...] […]