日常生活

Recently Change comes to all, Best buddies and Super Fettio bros dropped in the mail, all looking mighty fine. I especially like Best Buddies, it's ingenious. :-)

While I don't own a lot of games that require it -- for some reason, no matter what game we play, if a DM is required, yours truly seems to be the guy for the job. Every single time.

I don't know whether it's me doing a good job (not likely) or the others thinking they'd do horribly at it (more likely), but either way I'm not complaining. I mean, I would rather be a part of the "group", going through the bad-assery and maiming. But being the DM helps me work on my storytelling which is lacking, to say the least.

Anyhow, last weekend my brothers and a friend of ours set off on the adventure contained within the "Red Box" and I did my best to keep them entertained. Being new to this game meant a lot of flipping through the books trying to work out all the mechanics.

My superior die-rolls and the gang making the error of not bringing a healer to the party (two of them play Fighters, the other a Wizard) has caused them a lot of grief. I try to be a humble DM but the dice says otherwise. (I'm contemplating lying in their favour, just to see them get through the campaign)..

Today we'll continue the adventure and I have a little surprise in store for the gang. It'll be an improvised "encounter", going out of the box to try and help them out a little. The idea was a suggested by Cheryl, one of my Canadian friends. We'll see how it turns out. :-)

Oh, and the image - I've ordered Rules Compendium: An Essential Dungeons & Dragons Compendium and Player's Essentials: Heroes of the Fallen Lands, two books that might help our gaming experience.

The Essentials-line looks to be right up our alley. :-)

For the longest time I have feared this game. When I first heard of it many years ago, it seemed like a behemoth, its contents so vast that my mind would melt if I tried to approach it... Nah, maybe not really.

Honestly, I don't really know why I never bothered to check it out. I'll bet it's likely because of how much of the gameplay is in your head - my imagination's pretty poor. At least for "serious business".. ;-)

Recently though, a spark of interest has formed after my cousin linked me a page with videos where the guys behind Penny Arcade and PvPonline along with Wil Wheaton are playing a game together (with DM Chris Perkins). By the looks of it, they were having a lot of fun.

After watching that play (and listening to some of their podcasts [look for Penny Arcade/PvP]) I decided to buy the "Red Box" to try it out; take them first steps. None of us have played any 'paper'-D&D before, but a few (or all) of us have played at least one game on the computer, such as Baldur's Gate, that uses some rules from D&D. It'll be a blast, I'm sure. :-]

Wow, really? The expansion "The burning Crusade" has been out for more than three and a half year's and now I get this achievement? The expansion that followed ("WotLK") has almost run its entire course and in less than two months a third expansion (Cataclysm) will be released.

I'm pretty horrible at doing things in a timely fashion.

Not long after I got WoW up and running again it was time for another patch. Updating went smoothly and now I'm faced with the new cool launcher. (Dunno what the "!" in the lower left corner is for, it doesn't show anymore). The first thing I noticed after logging in was the improved UI and how tasty the new water-engine is. :-)

That, and a shitload of reset addons that I'll need to tend to. D:

That annoys me to no end. Thankfully -- this. <3

I got this shirt the other day. It's pretty cute and eerie. I like it. It kind of reminds me of Limbo. I've only played the demo, but it's pretty kickass, none the less.

The very next day I got three random shirts from a TeeFury Grab Bag:

I Drive 88 MPH- I'm not a huge fan of "text only" shirts, but come on, it's Back to the Future, man. Even though time traveling gives you Parkinson's.. Man..

Cantina Road - And while I'm not a huge Beatles-fan (like, at all), the band from Star Wars is pretty neat. It's cool, man, it's cool. At least the song's catchy..

Cuban Habanos - As if there's any other habanos. I wouldn't really know.

I'm probably wasting too much money on those two sites (TeeFury and Woot) but who can blame me? They have so many awesome shirts (I'll admit, some to a slightly lesser degree) that I simply can not (can not!) resist them.. :3