This week I’m sharing links with a caveat . . . I haven’t actually looked to closely at any of them.  Most of them came up in my google reader and I went ‘oooooooo’ and clicked on the star.  So, if it turns out that one or more sucks, you can’t blame me, ok!

  • NewbieDM – Using the 3 act structure in your D&D game – I find RPGs and writing fit together so well sometimes!  As a plotter, the moment I saw ’3 act structure’ in the title, I knew it was an article that I had to read!1
  • Gizmodo posted a flow chart on how to pick the perfect typeface – Fonts & flowcharts, together at last! (via Lifehacker)2
  • Lifehacker linked to ManageFlitter – In case you hadn’t guessed, it’s supposed to help clean up your twitter account.  My online connectivity was severely hampered this week since our office internet was down for a day and a half3.  Between that and my near total exhaustion from getting very little sleep, it just isn’t something I’ve gotten around to.
  • Lifehacker also had a piece about a program called Key Ring – I really, really want this to work for Canada.  Basically, it lets you scan all your loyalty cards and such into your iPhone or Android.  Since I have an iPod Touch, this would work if I manually input them all in.  But, I want to make sure it actually works in stores before I go tossing out all my old cards.  I think I’ll be testing it at PriceSmart first.
  • Dragon Chow Dice Bags – These are handmade reversible dice bags!  And the person who makes them, @GeekyLyndsay, is Canadian, a gaming girl geek, and generally awesome!  Been meaning to order some for a while but couldn’t decide what I wanted.  I also wanted to get one for my husband BenevoLance since the puny bags he currently uses are totally inadequate and we end up with loose dice in our car.  Then, I saw an awesome Koi fabric that I thought BenevoLance would love.  Shortly after that, I saw the Tall, Strapping Dice Bag where you can fit a pencil in too, which is what BenevoLance does anyway.  I sat down with him one night to order, only to see that a lot of her stock was gone because it’s at Gencon in booth #27324.  So, I have not ordered any yet,5 but will hopefully do so soon.6

Hope you all enjoy this weeks links!  Got some of your own to share?  Let me know in the comments!

  1. And eventually, I will actually read it. [↩]
  2. Aug 6 edited to add: No sooner did I post this than an opportunity to use it came up at work!  So, hopefully the sign maker will know what the heck we’re talking about when we say we liked the ‘Myriad’ font the best. [↩]
  3. we had dial up to one terminal, but I wasn’t going to use that to clean up my twitter account [↩]
  4. And they are trying to get one to Wil Wheaton since he’s on a mission to get more dice and will definitely need a dice bag for them all [↩]
  5. Perhaps I should do up a post about my dice and my general gaming supplies . . . hunh, that could be interesting! [↩]
  6. Unless she will also be selling some at PAX, in which case I’ll just wait and buy one there instead. [↩]

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