Due to someone getting sick and another someone needing to avoid getting sick, we were unexpectedly at home for Thanksgiving. As my spouse was saddened by our sudden, yet unavoidable, isolation, I decided that the perfect cure for the melancholia was a spirited session of gaming. Thus was the (now) annual tradition born of Munchksgiving! [...]
Archive for the ‘gaming’ Category
Munchksgiving
25 November, 2011
Games with Friends
25 June, 2011
As a Father’s Day gift, my family got me the deluxe edition of Illuminati. I fondly remember playing Illuminati with my cousins. (Could it really have been thirty years ago?!?) Unfortunately, I have not had the time to play yet due to the repercussions of events outside my control. Yet I still really want to play. [...]
Holy Crap, I’m a Paladin
16 January, 2011
In the last couple years I’ve reintroduced myself to Dungeons & Dragons, in particular the 4th edition, after listening to Wil Wheaton and Tycho & Gabe go adventuring. Part of that reintroduction, and part of what I enjoy about RPGs in the first place, is acquiring several tomes of knowledge. One of which, D&D Player’s [...]
Mission. Accomplished.
28 November, 2010
Partly because I felt that the first part of Keep on the Shadowfell did not present the full D&D experience and partly because I enjoy drawing and populating dungeons, I created a dungeon delve for my little blood-thirsty combatants. I made a point to include several traps as I felt that they had not developed [...]
Big Bang Funny
13 November, 2010
While I have always loved the movies, my movie-watching took a sharp uptick in the 80s, probably due to the triple threat of a job, a car, and a VCR. Like Abed my vernacular grew to include things like “Medic!” from the oodles of Nam war flicks such as Platoon and “I’ll be back.” from [...]
Rules Lawyer
1 November, 2010
When negotiating how much Halloween candy the kids could have, my eldest said, “Halloween has a +2 Sugar bonus.”
One Less Big Bad
24 October, 2010
They danced dangerously close to TPK but they defeated Irontooth. The rogue rolled three natural 1s in her first five rolls, including a critical failure on her Stealth that alerted the kobolds to the party’s presence. Everyone forgot about their action points for the entire encounter. PCs kept going down left and right, not staying [...]
Life’s Little Milestones
7 August, 2010
I am now the proud parent of a level 2 wizard and a level 2 fighter.
Primate Assistance
16 May, 2010
Listening to Wil, Gabe, Tycho, and Scott play D&D awakened my inner gamer. After reading some of Wil’s blog entries where he talks about gaming with his son, I wanted to see if my kids would be into it like I was when I was their age. After some googling I found that Wizards of [...]
