Bop! Behold this new shirt!

Megan is drawing an adorable comic about her first time playing D&D. I thought that third panel was so charming that I convinced her to make it into a shirt! Bop! Men's, women's and kids' sizes available! You can find more of her stuff at HardBoiledMegg.etsy.com

Get Off The Rock [New T-Shirt | Creative Commons Download]

I'm a big supporter of science and technology, especially teaching both at a young age. There are plenty of good general reasons to pursue science, but I think the ultimate goal should be space colonization. To put it bluntly: Get off the rock.

Get as many humans off the planet as possible, as long as possible, as soon as possible. Take a look at this time-lapse video of the milky way. It breaks my heart how much closer those stars could be now.

Sadly, I'm not going to go to space any time soon, but here's my tiny attempt at promoting space travel – Four simple words to keep it on top of mind. Clearly, I'm not as tactful as Neil deGrasse Tyson or Carl Sagan. :P

UPDATE: Want to use this graphic in your own stuff? Good news! It's released to the Creative Commons. Download the vector EPS below...

» Get off the rock (CC-BY-NC)

[T-Shirt] If you see the Buddha, kill the buddha for his treasure and XP.

Years ago, Kevin Allen Jr. and I had an exchange that went something like this.

K: if I ran into a wood elf we would not have chatted. I would have killed him for his treasure and the XPs. Duh.

D: I think that's an old Buddhist proverb. If you see the Buddha, kill the Buddha for his treasure and the XP.

K: I'm gonna get that engraved into a prayer wheel.

The joke is based on an old zen koan: "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him." Interpretations vary, but the gist is that while you are on the path towards enlightenment, you will sometimes externalize the image of enlightenment into some kind of ideal form. You must banish these images from your mind, because they are just distracting byproducts of material perception. True enlightenment comes from within oneself. Deep.

Now here's a shirt (and other illusions of the material world) for those of us who aren't quite so enlightened just yet.

Stop piracy. Destroy the boats.

And because I'm a shameless capitalist, I made a t-shirt! This graphic is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-ND 2.0)

UPDATE: An alternate is now available, for you more verbose types.

"Ideas are like Stars..." T-shirts and Outerwear on Sale!

"Ideas are like stars – Numerous and dazzling, but it takes a lot of work to confirm life near one."

That got retweeted a lot yesterday. It's been a while since I made a new t-shirt and this spread fast enough that I decided to whip up a quick little design to put on some cafepress stuff. It's now available on t-shirts and outerwear in a variety of colors, sizes, and styles for men and women.

» "Ideas are like Stars..." Shirts and Apparel

More shirts are available, too!

"My Favorite Game Console is a Table and Chairs" at Connecticon

Joshua Newman wore the My Favorite Game Console is a Table and Chairs shirt at Connecticon and shares this great story:

"Someone came up and told me that was exactly how they felt. They had this whole story about how they're not very good at video games. They were so happy they could actually tell someone sympathetic. I didn't tell her that I love video games but love my friends more. She just needed a shoulder to cry on."

D'aww. Yay!

» Photo by Robert Bohl

"My Favorite Game Console is a Table and Chairs" at MakerFaire 2011

At :19, find Michael Harrison wearing the "My Favorite Game Console is a Table and Chairs" t-shirt at the GeekDad table at MakerFaire 2011. Neat!

Butterfly Logo T-Shirts inspired by Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple

Butterfly shirts inspired by Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple are now available in a wide range of colors and sizes for men and women. Choose the light butterfly for a temple destiny. Choose the dark butterfly for a worldly destiny.

» Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple - Butterfly Logo Shirts

Thinking about T-Shirts for Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple

(UPDATE: Shirts now available on Cafepress!)

Thinking about a t-shirt for Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple. I feel weird about straight up putting a logo on a shirt. The cover art, maybe. (I may talk to Liz about that in the future.)

But I really like shirts with crisp, enigmatic logos. DC's recent line of Lantern Corps shirts are what I'm imagining here. I'm also feeling inspired by the Apolis logo t-shirts. Even Magic: the Gathering is in on the act.

I'm shooting for something symbolic, recognizable to those in-the-know, but not explicit. So, the butterfly symbol used throughout the game seems like a good fit. It could be printed in black or white, depending on your preferred color of stone. See the above mockups for examples.

Would you be interested in a shirt with this design?

I'm never not playtesting. [T-Shirt]

A few months ago, I quietly uploaded this t-shirt design to the shop. As I recall, there was an ongoing discussion about the pros and cons of playtesting. I posted this design as a bit of a joke.

Though I may call one of my games "finished," I'm never really done tweaking it in my mind. And certainly when I play someone else's games, my mind is turning over all the nuances of the design, trying to hack it for a new theme or bolting together different mechanics. The process never really ends.

If you feel the same way, grab this t-shirt from the store. Giulia already has hers, as you can see up at the top of this post. She says, "True to the spirit of the shirt, here I am trying to eat soup with chopsticks." True to the spirit indeed. Keep at it, Giulia!

» I'm Never Not Playtesting - Dark T-Shirt

Lyndsay's Favorite Game Console is a Table and Chairs

Lyndsay Peters models her "My Favorite Game Console" shirt. It took a while to get through customs – and she says it smelled of celery when she got it – but now she proudly wears it at her D&D game.

Speaking of making a sartorial splash at the table, check out her Dragon Chow dice bags. Durable, double-layered, flat-bottomed drawstring pouches perfect for carrying your arsenal of polyhedrons. Your friends will be envious of the awesome.

» Here's more about the Dragon Chow dice bags.
» Here's a complete list of sizes and styles of the shirt.