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Awesome Friday? Actually awesome.
Headed to the Collective yesterday for Awesome Friday. There were about 16 of us at the high point, playing a variety of card, miniature, and board games.
The winner of the event was clearly We Are Here To See The Evil Wizard Kormákur, wherein... "A group of brave souls have traveled through dark forest and hissing swamp to reach the moss-covered ( Read more... ) -
Where's my head at?
Last night's dreams? A Teapocalypse, my job in Jackson Square, a girlfriend from twenty-five years ago, talking to Murf about how I still dream of Chaplinhaus (true) ... all done in a fairly realistic framework. What the hell is wrong with my brain ( Read more... ) -
The screech of brakes and the sound of breaking glass.
Well, I've driven into a wall. Not literally. I have read all the things Kingmaker, it seems. Or at least all the things I don't discard as being meaningless and of little value ( Read more... ) -
Showcase of the Immortals
This weekend's Kingmaker game -- after a couple sessions of farting around "role-playing" I set up a combat intensive session -- was short handed. we "padded out" with Todd coming in to handle one of the main NPCs in the story, he did a great job, and carried a couple of RP scenes that needed to happen. A successful session, and the group got to ( Read more... ) -
Tiger Uppercut!
After "Late Work" last evening I made it home looking like a snow-man, and feeling like a damp, cold kid back from an all afternoon tobogganing expedition. Except all I had done was stand outside for a bit, and walk the ten minute distance between work and the domicile ( Read more... ) -
Join ussss.
Book 2/8.32 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, epubI'm part of the way through about a dozen books. But I've been dedication so much time to the game, and blog and actual-play reading though, that my book-reading has suffered. As you can see, although I once routinely finished about 50 books a year this year I'm headed for about 8 ( Read more... ) -
Watching the Modrons
Am I the only D&D player who never liked Planescape ( Read more... ) -
The loose-leaf tea of vengeance.
Don't expect tea to be an important, or even trivial, part of this update ( Read more... ) -
Double-oh-zero.
In last night's dreams I was a secret agent, spending most of my time on an island filled with fabulous mansions all hosting black-tie parties and surrounded by small cabañas serving complimentary drinks ( Read more... ) -
Conspicuous Consumption
Yesterday I had to turn my A/C on (on Fan, not Cool, to get some air movement happening, because the open balcony door wasn't stirring the air at all). In bloody March. Now, technically I just turned a fan on, not really an A/C. But what are technicalities when I have have my A/C turned on on the last day of Winter ( Read more... )