The Fifteen Minute The Last Legion

It really should be five minutes because the movie just doesn't warrant fifteen minutes, but it turns out I have a lot of venom to spew. It makes 300 look like a meticulously researched historical epic.

It's 460 AD. Insert brief and nauseating history of Rome, starting with a badass sword specially forged for Julius Caesar. It has a pentangle on it and whoever has it rules. Or something. It was lost after the last of Caesar's line, Tiberius dies.

Scott: Um, the last of the Julio-Claudians was actually Nero...

Tiberius was the last emperor with dignity, a great man of poetry and blah blah.

ME: Do whaa?

SCOTT: Oh we're in trouble...

THE LAST LEGION

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A Field Guide to Gamers

From Slate.

In my opinion, doesn't cover Gen Con's nerdy glory near as much as it could've been. There was no waxing on the beauty of the d20 system, or mention of the upcoming expansion to WoW (The Wrath of the Lych King....already?? Sheesh, I just got Burning Crusade a couple months ago...) or the update to D&D in which they will allegedly do away with a race, and bets are on as to whether it will be halflings, gnomes, or half-orcs...

Le sigh.