DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS HUMBLE BUNDLE

With a new Dungeons & Dragons movie storming into theatres this weekend the roleplaying game is on a lot of people's minds. People who are geeked about the movie or enjoy playing the game, may want to head over to humblebundle.com to check out their current promotion featuring IDW Publishing Dungeons and Dragons comic books. You can get a treasure trove of digital comic books for a steal! 

Humble Bundle bands together book and video game publishers with charities to provide incredible deals for consumers while also fundraising for charity. You can choose how much you want to spend and divide that amount between the publisher, charity and Humble Bundle for hosting the deal. There are five different Dungeons and Dragons levels to choose from.

You can just spend $1 to purchase to get five digital Dungeon & Dragons graphic novels that are each a collection of a number of comic books from IDW Publishing. Spend ten dollars to receive 14 comics. And spending $18 will get you 29 Dungeons & Dragons graphic novels. For $18 you are literally getting the retail value of $326 in comic books! 

Feeling generous? You can spend more to donate to the Dungeons & Dragons Bundle charity partner, The Hasbro Children's Fund. This is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose mission is to empower childhood by bringing “the sparkle of Hope, the joy of Play and the power of Service” into the lives of the children across the globe. Working with strategic charitable partners, the grants made through the Hasbro Children’s Fund support programs that deliver; stability for children in crisis; pediatric physical and mental health services; hunger security; educational programs; quality out of school time programming and programs that empower youth through service. To learn more about these programs and how they are making a difference for children worldwide, please visit www.hasbro.org.

The tabletop legend gets the comic treatment in this Humble Bundle promotion. Thanks to IDW Publishing, you can jump headlong into the world of Dungeons & Dragons no matter how poorly you roll your acrobatics check! Comic geniuses like Jim Zub, AJ Mendez, Sal Buscema, Rags Morales, Andrea Di Vito, Jan Duursema and countless others come together to tell the story of the heroes of Baldur’s Gate as they journey across Icewind Dale and other regions across the Forgotten Realms. With books like Dungeons & Dragons: At the Spine of the World, Dungeons & Dragons: Mindbreaker, Dungeons & Dragons: Legends of Baldur's Gate, and two dozen others, you won’t want to miss this collection of adventures! 

Plus, your purchase goes on to support the Hasbro Children's Fund! Pay $1 or more. Normally, the total cost for the comics and ebooks in this bundle is as much as $326. This bundle has a minimum $1 purchase.

Read your comic books purchased through Humble Bundle anywhere. The comics are available in PDF and ePub formats, so they work on your computer, e-readers, iPads, cell phones, and a wide array of mobile devices! 

If you want to help Humble Bundle keep offering deals like this Dungeons and Dragons collection of comic books, think about giving them a tip at check out too. They have expenses to pay to keep the site up and running after all. 

I've bought a number of comic book related bundles from them and have been very satisfied with the prices, quality of the products offered, and that you don't have to utilize an app to read your e-books just download them from your Humble Bundle account when you want to read them and view directly on your computer or other electronic device. From my experience with Humble Bundle they've earned a Geek Daddy nod of approval.

Are you geeked about this Dungeons and Dragons Humble Bundle of IDW Publishing comic books? If you are interested don't wait too long to jump on this offer as it vanished on April 20th! 

Miitopia

I've had a lot of fun playing the game MIITOPIA on my Nintendo 3DS.  It is full of magic and monsters as you battle your way through a fairy tale land with a group of heroes that can be made to look and act like people in your life.  A Nintendo Mii is a cartoonish figure that can be shaped to have the appearance of someone you know or created to have its own unique wacky look.  These Miis are the characters that live in the land of Miitopia.

The Miis are in trouble! An evil sorcerer is stealing their faces and creating monsters out of them.  Your mission is to defeat the monsters so that the faces are returned to the Mii they were stolen from.  You also must stop the villain from continuing to threaten the Mii of Miitopia in order to win the game.  To do this players create a team of four warriors to try and save the day!

It is neat that you can choose the name, appearance and attitude of your warriors.  Also your team can be made up of a variety of different skills so a member can be a knight in shining armor or a witch with a pointy hat while another can be a chef or a pop star musician.  The chef and pop star characters can be really funny and make MIITOPIA stand out from other games that revolve around dragons, princesses, wizards and that sort of stuff.

I had an awesome time creating my team.  The group's main hero Mii is based on me of course!  I was glad they had glasses that looked like mine to put on my hero's face.  Oh by the way I named the game's bad guy Dark Lord Dad. Ha Ha!!!

If you have amiibo figures, MIITOPIA will let you scan them and have your main character be able to dress like them.  Find the lady who is dressed like Super Mario in the game and she'll ask if you have any amiibo to show her from your collection.  Place a figure on the Nintendo 3DS pad and next thing you know your team's main hero has a new look.   I've been able to have my character dressed like Link from Legend of Zelda while playing MIITOPIA using this feature. AWESOME!!!

I made a Mii that looked like my sister and named her Sunflower because of her bright blond hair.  She made a nice addition to the team and was assigned the job of being my squire in the game.  She does look good in a suit of armor!  I also added my friend Whitney from school to my group of adventurers and put her in a chicken outfit because that was just hilarious.  My friend Parker is also part of the group.  He's a pop star because that fit his real life personality being a fun, popular guy to hang out with.

While making your way through the game, you can earn gold and experience points by defeating monsters, restoring faces to Mii who have lost theirs and by completing quests.  This will allow the characters in your team to purchase new clothes, weapons and supplies.  I bought the Mii of my sister a bumblebee outfit to wear and a bee stinger sword to battle the bad guys with using gold earned from battling monsters.

You can also pick up different types of food along your journeys.  Feast on these meals while resting up at an inn and your characters can earn higher skill ratings and hit points making them tougher to beat in combat.  Be careful though because if a Mii doesn't like the food you're serving they'll be in a bad mood afterward.

I also like to win gold and gear by playing in MIITOPIA's arcade area where you can play games like roulette and rock paper scissors that award prizes. Earning tickets while battling monsters gives you a chance to play these games. I'm a champ when it comes to Rock Paper Scissors. One of my favorite parts of MIITOPIA!

Something I really liked about the game is that the monsters in it are goofy rather than creepy.  It is really fun to see the different monsters and the weird powers some of them have.  Beware the banshees that can make characters cry uncontrollably during a battle.  This game can be very silly which adds to the fun of playing it.

Being able to add your own touches to the look and feel of the game is great.  The silly characters, zany situations and goofy monsters you encounter had me not wanting to put my Nintendo 3DS down.  Plus the 3D images really pop off the screen and look incredible.  It is really nice you don't have to wear special goggles to see the 3D since I already have to wear my own glasses.

I enjoyed playing MIITOPIA a lot.  If you have the chance to get the game I sure do recommend it.  For more information about MIITOPIA it has its own page on the Nintendo website.  The game is rated E for Everyone.  You can buy a cartridge to insert in your 3DS from stores like Amazon, Best Buy, Target and Walmart or purchase a digital download from the Nintendo website.

-- Little Luigi

A Geek Daddy's twins are participating in the Nintendo KID REVIEWERS program.  My daughter (Little Mario) and son (Little Luigi) will be providing reviews of Nintendo games, hardware and other merchandise from a kids perspective.  Our family will be provided complimentary products to review but the opinions expressed will be honest and their own.