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Welcome to Chimera, The CoDependent Gaming Magazine. We cover lesser-known aspects of the adventure gaming hobby, leaving up-to-the-minute news and industry gossip to other venues. We specialize in small game companies, the conventions that are their lifeblood, and the unique culture of enthusiasts that has grown around both.
20 August 2011: Baltimore Comic Con
The Flash and Poison Ivy outside the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Baltimore Comic Con 2011, our report on the East Coast convention, is up. A different show than the one in California.
July 20-23: San Diego Comic Con 2011
Captain America, from the movie "Captain America: The First Avenger", along with his show partner for selling US war bods, circa World War II.
San Diego Comic Con 2011, our report on the international phenomenon, is up. Comics, costumes, San Diego California!
20 July, 2011: Comic Con Report
To make posting faster, we are blogging at over at blogspot.
April 12, 2010: I-CON 29 Report
Kristal Zoombie gets a choice of injection or destruction from the medical guy.
At long last, our report on I-CON's triumphant return home is up in full. Zoombies and science and cosplay, oh my!
October 4, 2009: I-CON returns to Stony Brook
In 2010, I-CON will return to its original home, Stony Brook University, after being held at Suffolk County Community College in 2009. We welcome the return to its home, especially since at Stony Brook you can walk to all the events. This was a major issue for us in 2009 since the three sites were so far apart, we had to drive or take the Icon bus to go to the next event, often missing the first minutes. Read their press release on Facebook.
Even better, from October 4-15, 2009, I-CON is running a special, online-only discount: 3-day pre-registration is $45 for adults and $35 for Students. Please visit the Icon website http://www.iconsf.org. to buy on line.
March 16, 2008: Dead Link Collection
There's been a surprising amount of industry turnover since we started doing our big convention reports long ago. As a result, many of the game company sites we've linked to over the years are either dead or (worse) owned by domain squatters. We don't want to discard potentially-valuable historical information, but we don't want to send our loyal visitors to untrustworthy sites either.
The solution we've formulated is to deactivate our dead links (so web crawlers like Google won't think we're engaging in nefarious schemes) but to mark them in red type like this so you know where the link used to be. If you hover your cursor over the link and leave it there a little bit after the underline shows, you should get a pop-up "tool tip" to tell you the original URL, should you be inclined to check it for yourself.
March 7, 2008: Gary Gygax
Signing RPG books at Gen Con 2000
Gary and Robert at Gen Con 2001
At the Troll Lord booth for Gen Con 2002
Gary Gygax died on Tuesday. He was 69 years old. As the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, he greatly influenced my life, and my gaming hobby in particular.
Gary cast a spell on the world with D&D; here was a new way of playing games, competitive but without making your fellow players into losers. Instead, imaginary monsters and evil creatures would fill that role. Roleplaying games were born of Gary's and Dave Arneson's minds.
I met Gary a couple of times at Gen Con. Most of us who played D&D were in awe of him, even if we never were of the big movie stars. To us, he was THE celebrity. Chimera was lucky enough to get pictures of him on a couple of occasions, as seen here.
My fondest memory of Gary was in Chimera Magazine's early days. I got an email saying he had seen our magazine and he'd keep his eye on it. It was signed Gary Gygax. I thought it was a joke from a fellow gamer but it was real. It gave me a boost knowing that the gaming personality I admired the most had actually heard of Chimera and would continue to read it.
Gary, you are missed. You changed our lives.
-- Robert
February 19, 2008: Convention Section Cleanup
Literally years in the making, our game convention reports section overhaul is finally complete!
This last component of the Chimera site modernization rescued photo reports dating back to the turn of the century, encasing them in brand-new 100% pure standards-compliant HTML. All internal links have been double-checked, all photos load properly, and navigation systems have been completely redesigned from the ground up.
All you old-timers who've been with us since the beginning, this is the excuse you've been looking for to take a trip down memory lane. And for the newcomers, it's a one-of-a-kind opportunity to peek into the game industry's recent history. Check it out -->
