Five Links: The Next Generation

Dresdan Codak - comics with humor, wonder, science, and stuff

Necromancer of Awesome - I want to be this guy when I grow up.

A Collation of Viking Names - Note to my players: Feel free to ignore this.

Business Card CD-R - I had not seen these before.

The Theoretical Basis of Piquet - One of the most intriguing wargame articles I've ever read.

The Five Fold Path of Inner Linkage

Steampunk Star Wars - This is making the rounds but I wanted to post it just in case you haven't seen it already.

Make Your Own Bigass Pile of Treasure

Medieval Cookery - This link is a blatant attempt to get my friend Pat to make me some medieval mustard. Or whatever else he wants to cook.

Why I'm Handing Out Free Heward's Handy Haversacks in My Next Campaign

Gorl Bonebreaker - an orc for the ages

and the number of the linking shall be five

Whitewash City - print out Wild West buildings

DreamAuthentics - custom made stand-up arcade cabinets!

Goodstorm - these folks have this great T-shirt design thingy that makes CafePress look like a dinosaur

Links to articles comparing and contrasting DC and Marvel comics

Our Relative Size - 'A short animation illustrating the relative size of our planet.'

the links came marching five by five

On costume color in DC comics

Futurama: Super Happy Fun Show - a picture (click on it for the close-up)

Claw the Unconquered: Cliché and the Perfect Genre Piece - about a comic, but perhaps useful to the non-comic reading sword & sorcery fan

Loren K Wiseman on Traveller and Star Wars

Those Magnificent Mandarins in Their Flying Machines - colonial airship sci-fi from a different empire than usual

Five from my bookmarks

Monty Python & The Holy Grail, Scene 14 - This one goes out to Stuart.

Kibo's sig - Anybody else remember Kibo?

random sci-fi adventure generator

Lankhmar geomorphs - the best part of the old 1st edition AD&D Lankhmar book

The 95 Theses of Geek Activism

an experiment: 5 links, 4 random

http://www.randomwebsite.com/ - used to generate the four links below

http://www.oneeyedcleric.com/ - one of those fakeout search-results based jobbies, but kinda cool nonetheless

http://www.evado.net/ - those crazy kids and their 'hacking the matrix'!

http://www.streetstudio.com/ - An interesting photography project.

http://www.marrowmonkey.com/menu.html - "interactive art works"

links numbering something between 4 and 6

Another Point of Singularity - a neat little minis wargamer blog

original BattleStar Galactica memorabilia - As a kid I loved the little vehicles from the toyline.

Serapio Calm Designworks - one of the artists on The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy

Jeff Russell's Starship Dimensions - super fun to mess around with

The Saga of William Walker - the history of US/Latin American relations given flesh

links times five

Why hearing about your game should suck. - Not sure I agree (I think I like my games more shallow and stupid.) but well worth the read.

The Museum of Roleplaying Games - I keep meaning to review my copy of Dave Arneson's Adventures in Fantasy so I can send it to this guy, so he can review it.

my weird science-fantasy campaign world - A thread on Dragonsfoot where a guy outlines his campaign setting. I want to play in his world so bad it hurts.

Willaim Shatner's celebrity secrets - All hail the Shat.

Owlbears - The rpg your inner child plays.

Hey! Five links!

Swashbuckling Cards - I absolutely love card-driven hooliganism

The 8 Most Insane Moments in Professional Wrestling - Surprisingly lacking in Ultimate Warrior stories, but awesome nonetheless

Married to the Sea - a daily webcomical entertainment

Second System Effect - Wikipedia articles like this lead me to wonder whether game designers should look to software design theory for ideas

Net, Chain, Hooks & Spurs - A nifty livejournal post by Levi Kornelsen

5 links about gaming blogs

You might have seen me link to these before, but I wanted to throw out some commentary.

Best New Blog: I Waste The Buddha With My Crossbow (yes, I'm going to pimp this blog again)- Highest signal-to-noise ratio of any blog I've ever seen, even including the recent Erol Otus/Rugrats post.

Best Blog Not Enough People Are Reading: Neitherworld Stories - Stuart, the author, is an interesting cat. On one hand, he's one of those World of Darkness guys. On the other hand, his insights into d20 are some of the smartest I've seen. I'm serious as cancer when I say that (despite his short credits list) he would make a good pick for a D&D 4th edition design team.

Best Two Blogs I Don't Read Regularly Because the Authors Are So Smart I Don't Always Understand Them: Eliot Wilen and JH Kim's livejournals. Damn, these brainiacs make me feel like a caveman sometimes. But that's okay. Cavemen are cool. They get these neat clubs and hang out in caves and stuff.

Best Guy I Know Who Should Be Blogging: Don McKinney. I've known Don for like 15 years now. Not only is he my personal Traveller guru, he's got a masterful grasp of like a zillion other games. Don's always got several cool projects in the works. I wish the gamers on the net could hear about them. Join the Legion of Bloggers, Don! One of us! One of us!

once again: 5 links

Flow in Games - a master's thesis tackling fun in video games, but I think it could be applicable to the tabletop

The original Sorcerer - I like this outfit much better than Hennet's goth-club gear, though I don't think I would send a PC of mine into a dungeon with his twig and berries hanging out.

The Dragonquest Shrine - I never played any of the DQ titles, but I absolutely adore some of the monster art you can find here. Evil has never been cuter!

Space Chicks: An alternative history of the future - I don't drop a lot of political stuff on this blog, but I found this item pretty amusing.

The Rasterbator - Not as naughty as it sounds, I'm afraid. This site allows you to make a cool-looking poster from any image.

5 unknown links appearing on sensors, sir!

Mars Attacks - the original bubble gum card artwork

Swashbuckling Cards - a free-wheeling card-based d20 add-on

The Knave & The Bold - Story time!

The truth hurts, fanboy. - I'm over here patting myself on the back for letting my daughter play with my Star Wars toys.

Dwarfstar Games - Legal downloads of some cool microgames.

The Linkson 5

The Heart Ripper - nifty actual play from RPGnet

The 10 Best Sci-Fi Films That Never Existed

The Velvet Marauder - blog written by a small time superhero, well worth reading from the beginning of the archive

Star Trek Miniature Maker - full color paper mini maker with a virtual paper doll interface

Is our universe about to be mangled? - science!

links X 5

The Tall Man - Levi Kornelsen's excellent gaming livejournal

World Creation - a broad outline for setting makers (the author, Richard Staats, has some other articles at the same site)

Avery Sign Kits - there's got to be some good gaming applications for these

The Worst Dungeon Master Ever

Monty Python & The Holy Grail - script & other stuff