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I don't like the term "strong female characters." I think it's limiting. It implies that strength is not the norm, as though "female characters" and "strong female characters" are separated by some vast gulf. It's especially confusing in…

In the Claremont era of the X-men Universe, one of the things that happened is that you saw other creators (and sometimes Claremont himself) spin off characters to tell more interesting stories with those characters. Here is a quick rundown…

Christmas time is a great time to get together with family, eat mounds of delicious food, and play new board games! In past years, we have gathered at my in-laws, usually busting out Settlers of Catan with expansion packs, playing until…

NPCs don't need to have perfectly formed stats blocks, they need to be memorable. Use this table to help you quickly create fantastic NPCs.

Us nerds like nothing more than to banter back and forth on nerdy topics in Slack. Here is one of those chats, very lightly edited. What movies are you looking forward to in 2016?  Jason (Co-founder of Nerds on Earth and owner of an…

Ratings and statistics confess to this tragedy: most of you all didn’t watch Agent Carter. In all seriousness, Agent Carter was one of the surprisingly awesome things of 2015 and we can't encourage you enough to watch, especially as the…

Fiction is my fav. I'll take it in any of its forms: Comic, video game, book, TV show, movie, podcast...Just whisk me away to another world, introduce me to compelling characters, put them in a predicament, and let me spectate. However new…

Last year, it was teased that there might be an Agents of SHIELD spin-off, which caught a lot of people and critics off guard, mainly because the ratings for the original show aren’t exactly stellar. But at the time, there were some ideas…

I have now seen Star Wars three times and I still can’t get enough!  Well done JJ, well done! There was so much to just love about this movie: a strong female lead, dozens of nods to the original trilogy, and of course…lightsabers! I…

It’s a dark night. There isn’t a moon. You are a young woman, still in high school and walking home from your friend’s house. You don’t think anything of it because really, what could happen in your small town? You hear something behind…