Christian Lindke

3 days ago | geekeratimedia.com | Christian Lindke

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4 days ago | geekeratimedia.com | Christian Lindke

This is the fourth entry in a series on “Strange Licensed Role Playing Games.” These are role playing games based on a licensed property that are strange for one reason or another. This will probably come as no surprise to you, but I really like professional wrestling. When I was an undergraduate host regular viewing parties with roommates and friends to watch both WWE(F) and WCW matches.

5 days ago | geekeratimedia.com | Christian Lindke

This Weekly Geekly is both late and long. These things are related. There was so much potential content for a Robert E Howard themed Weekly Geekly that I got a little lost. As you know, everything is bigger in Texas, and that includes Rabbit Holes. The Cimmerian glared about, embarrassed at the roar of mocking laughter that greeted this remark. He saw no particular humor in it, and was too new to civilization to understand its discourtesies.

2 weeks ago | geekeratimedia.com | Christian Lindke

When I saw the first Conan movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger I had never heard of Robert E Howard, but I loved the movie and quickly went out in search of similar stories. Ironically, the first book that caught my eye at the local paperback exchange was Michael Moorcock’s Elric novel The Vanishing Tower. I was too young to notice that Elric was a kind of anti-Conan, a man who went from Emperor to Wanderer instead of from Wanderer to King (and that’s only one of many inversions).

2 weeks ago | geekeratimedia.com | Christian Lindke

In the first two entries in my series on “Strange Licensed Role Playing Games,” I argued that there are many reasons why table top role playing game companies enter licensing agreements. One of these reasons is that it gives them the opportunity to expand their player base by reaching out to a new audience. In these cases, the licensed property is a kind of bait put out there in the hopes that the customers will be hooked when they see the interaction of the game rules and the property.