So I am an unrepentant know-it-all purist when it comes to Star Wars. I hear people criticize things that they should not criticize, and accept things that they shouldn’t accept and it’s got to the point where I can’t listen to anyone say anything about the franchise anymore as I haven’t found anyone who views…Read more
Mr. Wford
pulling out every one of my teeth, or at least 32 of them…
Ah yes, Table (III.E.) Special. I am a huge huge fan of the Dungeon Masters Guide (1979 edition). I got my copy in, I suppose, 1981, and I am convinced that it is one of the great works of imagination out there. Not just the best RPG book (which it is), but just a great…Read more
… and i’ll take the low road.
So as I may have mentioned earlier, I started a AD&D campaign. 1st Edition, as that’s what I played back in the day and what I prefer. Okay, I actually started it as a Basic D&D (because of the kids) but rapidly converted it to AD&D as soon as we started. Well,, started is a…Read more
some things just never make sense…
As someone who has been using the command line (okay, on and off) since before DOS, and who started using email more than 25 years ago (long before webmail), and who has used Pine, and Eudora, and squirrelmail as their primary email client at some point or another, I would think that I could wrap…Read more
Whither the tomes…
Well, my AD&D thing has now become a bit of a fixation. In the time spent online, both putting together my campaign environment and also just catching up on what’s been written out there, I have learned that there are a lot of resources that I find intriguing. I have gained a good number of…Read more
sciffle…
This was going to be a post for my old Movie blog but, let’s face it, I’m never going to have that up and running again so I may as well post it here… A couple of months back I went to a movie gathering and it got me to thinking about movies in a…Read more
Winter has come… And gone. Phew!
Okay, so I blew it on most all counts… Sansa did end up Queen in the North, but all my other ponderings failed. Though I found it surprising that Yara fell back into the seven/six kingdoms… Especially after Sansa got away with saying that she wasn’t going to. I was also hoping that GRRM had…Read more
Beyond the Bells, the future of the Seven Kingdoms…
After the disaster of The Bells, I think I have finally realized what resolutions are ahead for Westeros and the Seven Kingdoms… Dragonstone: Daenerys and Drogon fly on to Dragonstone. She goes in and never comes out, spending decades descending into a badly stereotypical Crazy Cat Lady until, in her 80’s, she is eaten by…Read more
Away they go… Now come back.
Last year, in the midst of one of our household purges of unused junk, I decided to get rid of many of my old RPG games. Of course, soon I regretted it. Primarily because I wanted to show the kids D&D, but I gave away alll of my AD&D books except for my earliest editions….Read more
Writers Block, Vol 1: Part 1, Faltering of the Hierophant, or, how the young become old…
Glancing furtively around in the hopes that no one saw, but also to hope that some sympathetic person may have, Tom (or Eggbert, or Winston, or Merriflower, or, hell, why not… Cuthbert Diogenes Allen?) leaned against the wall a bit as he stood up… Working to look at least a bit intentional, he straightened the…Read more