Geeky Media

Here is some of what I've been reading, watching, and listening to lately.

I purchased the role playing game Grimm in PDF from Fantasy Flight Games, which is an RPG set in a world inspired by the Grimm fairy tales. So far I'm very impressed with the rules and setting, and intend to run a game for my three older kids using this system. In addition to reading the rulebook to the RPG, I have been doing some research by reading some of the Grimm fairy tales on the web.

I regularly listen to three podcasts. The Geekbox is a podcast about video games, television, comic books, and other geeky things. Fear the Boot focuses on role playing games, while The D6 Generation covers miniatures wargames and some board games. Of the three, I enjoy the cast of the Geekbox the most, despite the fact that I don't play many video games. The D6 Generation is very hit or miss, but the podcast is very long so I often find enough content worth listening to. Fear the Boot covers some very interesting topics, and is very consistent in its quality.

The best geeky television right now is on ABC, with two excellent shows that have major geek appeal. Flash Forward is an excellent show about the entire world seeing a vision about their future, and the consequences to society that result. Even better than Flash Forward is V, a show about aliens invading the earth through stealth and subversion, while pretending to be our friends. What I really like about V is how it quickly covered in the first episode everything you knew if you watched the original series, and by the second episode the show was already going in some interesting new directions. Another show I'm enjoying quite a bit is Glee, and I look forward to an upcoming Joss Whedon directed episode that has been promised.