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The Creeping Kringle

There are precious few days on the calendar that I can point to and say, without hesitation, “This day is awesome.” My birthday isn’t on that list. Neither is Thanksgiving or President’s Day. No, come to think of it, it’s a list of one: Halloween. It’s a day (and more importantly evening) where America shows the same enthusiasm for the costumes, horror and morbidity that I hold so dear. There is a looming threat to my favorite day, however, and it’s agent of destruction is clad in red and rides a chariot of supernatural slave deer.

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#RPGaDay

Last August, the #RPGaDay meme was launched by Autocratik, encouraging gamers to make one post per day on a gaming topic. It’s a month for celebrating the diversity of our hobby, and following along last year caused my gaming wishlist to explode in size. Last year was such a success, it’s back with a vengeance this year.

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GTRT Ep 21: System Turnoffs, Fantasy Talk, and Mad Max

5 Geeks. One Roundish Table. In the week’s Geeky Topics Round Table, we talk about our game system turnoff’s, our recent forays into fantasy games, and the recent Mad Max Fury Road controversy.

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Historical Mourning Traditions and Unhallowed Metropolis

This fall the Metropolitan Museum of Art has hosted an excellent exhibit in the Costume Institute: Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire. When a coworker told me about, I about had a nerd-gasm, and Billy and I were traipsing up to the museum practically the next weekend. For anyone with an interest in historical fashion, it’s a must-see stop (but hurry! It’s only on display through February 1st!). The exhibit gave me lots of new inspiration for Moira in Unhallowed Metropolis, especially considerations of what to do with her fashion as she moves farther from the British culture that raised mourning to an art form.

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Fandible’s Newest Experiment!

Fandible has entered that awkward experimental phase that we all hit in college. If you want to learn more, click here. If change is scary and intimidating, run away.

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A Gaming Year in Review – and Looking Ahead to 2015!

Around this time last year, in one of our occasional attempts to get organized, we sat down and made a giant list of all the games we wanted to play in 2014. It was a massive list of 25 games – basically enough to have every weekend in 2014 planned before we rolled a single…

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The Fandible Holiday Gift Guide

Season’s greetings, Fandible faithful, pervy kobolds, and assorted denizens of the web, and welcome to the first annual Fandible Holiday Gift Guide! Xmas is fast approaching, and you may be wondering what to get the Fandible-obsessed person in your life. Well, wonder no more, because we’ve put together a list of utterly spellbinding gifts guaranteed to brighten up anyone’s winter.

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How Are We Driving?

It’s been a good journey so far here at Fandible. But hey, we can always do better, right? So here is your opportunity to help us out! Give us an encouraging word, a helpful suggestion, or a harsh criticism (if you’re a punk like Warren) to help us out!

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