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D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop Challenge -- First Gamer who annoyed the hell...
To me this is a post about gaming being a social activity and how we navigate an often prickly issue of individual behavior, personality and character. So I'm approaching it from that standpoint.So...
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Woohoo! I love it when a delivery comes in ...
Always fun when you get a special delivery!! I got the two player battle set for Hordes. Honestly don't know why I picked it up, other than I really love the Everblight and Circle of Orboros minis....
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D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop Challenge -- My first non-D&D RPG
D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop Challenge --The first non-D&D RPG I played was RIFTS. It is a venerable system that I hardly need to elaborate on. Most RPG fans have at least heard of it and it...
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D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop Challenge -- 1st D&D books I ever sold
So yes. That image sort of displays how I encountered the newer versions of D&D. I felt really great about "grid" based D&D early on and then gradually came to really not that great about it....
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More Warhammer Fantasy stuff ... the lizardmen pile grows!
So here is the hard to tell WTF this is pile o' bitz and whatnot. A friend treked down to Strategicon and managed to pick up a bunch of WHFB stuff at a really good price. So I snagged a bunch. What...
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The front porch is cluttered with packages today!
So FRP games was having a sale on a few things so I picked up my first Malifaux, Kabuki and Scibor minis. I've been eyeing them for years and never have taken the plunge. They are all pretty looking....
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2014 Big Gaming project Update: Lizardmen army acquisition phase almost...
So I got a package in the mail from my friend in Las Vegas, Will who I am trading off some sedition wars stuff and some other random WHFB stuff that I don't have a use for but he does. We basically...
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D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop Challenge -- 1st D&D books I ever sold
The first D&D related books I ever read were the endless quest books. The very first of those I read was the classic Dungeon of Dread as you can see by the picture there by Rose Estes fantasy...
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D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop Challenge Post 23&24 -- First song and film I...
So as a very small child, around age five I was for the first time exposed to the classic (either classic bad or good depending on your perspective) Rankin/Bass/Bakashi films. I really don't know what...
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Gamer Archetypes according to Dr. Richard Garfield ...
Gamer ADD does it exist?Having read a really cool article from of all places Vice Magazine with Dr. Richard Garfield the creator of Magic the Gathering (go read the interview it's good) I started...
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Say it ain't so ... Egon Spengler is gone.
Really very sad to hear that Harold Ramis passed away yesterday. Sad news.Rest in Peace Egon ... rest in peace ... if you don't you might end up in the containment unit.May it be said you only crossed...
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D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop Challenge Post 25 -- Longest Running RPG I've...
A years long D&D campaign is sort of like a marathon in the snow, but up hill both ways.Well. I have honestly been in far more 3-5 shot campaigns than not. In fact I believe there is a "law of...
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Battle of the blood bowl clones!!
So all of a sudden we have this glut of blood bowl clones on Kickstarter! What is up with that! I'm calling unnecessary roughness on this one! Someone could lose their pants!! I didn't back the...
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D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop Challenge Post 26 -- What happened to my...
Sadly I've gone it my own way. My first group I played with were a bunch of great guys. I was twelve the last time I played D&D with that group. When I was a kid we move around a lot as my dad...
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Fun oldhammer/pulp army - Kallistra PYGMIES!!
Today I got a cool package from the UK, my Kallistra Pygmies arrived!Somehow 2014 has become the year of jungle gaming for me for whatever reason. I have decided to revisit my old school rogue trader...
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D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop Challenge Post 26 -- Any regrets about D&D?
D&D ... if I had it to do all over again what would I do anything differently when I first started gaming?I think I have no regrets at all about my early experiences with D&D. In fact I think...
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D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop Challenge Final Post
The Single Most Important Lesson I've learned from playing D&D ...This is a very challenging question to be honest. It is difficult to boil down the sum total of my D&D experience to a single...
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Eldritch Horror Boardgame Night
So last night we fired up a game of Eldritch Horror (Fantasy Flight Games) and it was surprisingly fun! I thought I'd just do a little intro post about the game itself. This isn't a review, just my...
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Dreadball ... to back or not to back ...
So I tend to be pretty excessive when I go in on a Kickstarter. I'm in at the Frenzy level of Dreadball. I ended up opting not to go in on either Slaughterball or Guildball. Both were fine looking...
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A beautiful spring day ... wonderful day to walk with the bison
Slightly unrelated topic here, but then again maybe not. I mean perhaps one has interest in gaming in the old west, right?So today was a splendid spring day, and a great day for a hike out at Antelope...
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HOBBIT TALES! I'm in!
Well this just looked interesting enough to take the plunge. It looks like a fun sort of light RPG/story telling game. It just sounds really fun. The components look decent and for $23.00 US on...
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SALTCON!!
Well a great local game convention has come and gone, it was a BLAST!!! I played wall to wall games from early Friday morning until Sunday afternoon with very little down time. I think I played...
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As they say: Disappointment = expectation divided by reality ... This sums up where I am with GW these days! Ok so the world of mini gaming is abuzz with talk about a new edition of 40K (already?!?!)....
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5th edition D&D
Is it really just schadenfreude? For me I don't think so, for many out there probably. I know many people felt betrayed/burned by WoTC/Hasbro somewhere between 3.0 and 4e. I felt it early, I didn't...
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LARRYCON Begins!!
A really nice scene I caught on my phone the other night while out for a stroll. The harvest is upon us!! Well it has been a wonderful spring and early summer, lots of hiking and generally being...
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