We skipped Friday the 20th so everyone can enjoy the upcoming battle. If the upcoming day doesn’t work for you, please let me know. Otherwise, let’s look forward to a fun evening!
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Next Game: Friday, February 13th
Our next game is on Friday the 13th; your reconnaissance has gone well and you’re preparing for the assault. You mentioned trying to plan a bit before next week– use email and comments to work it out. If you have questions, just let me know!
Pizza continues to suffer from overuse, so we’ll each grab food on the way this week. Hopefully a couple of weeks of enjoying something different will restore out pizza loving taste buds.
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Roleplaying continues February 7th
We’re on track to game Friday night, February 7th. It looks like we’ll have a short night, with Mike and Kev needing to call it quits early (due to an early start Friday for Kev and Saturday for Mike). You’re currently in the hastily converted barracks along the river, about 3 miles upstream of Viffil. During the night you fought off a probe by a pack of demon dogs and a demonic archer; we’ll pick up the next morning.
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The Elfish Gene
(subtitled: Dungeons, Dragons, and Growing Up Strange, a memoir) by Mark Barrowcliffe
The book is well written with a very consistent tone– but my attitude toward it varied dramatically over the course of the book. As it began, I empathized with his younger self, and remembered how D&D (and roleplaying) felt to me. I was annoyed, though, at his constant running down of himself and his friends– as a roleplayer, I felt like he was bagging on all of us. In the end, he really is, though there’s a lot of wistfulness as he talks about his early days.
In many ways he was a lot like me, squared. My love of gaming and friends squares into a horribly dysfunctional obsession; his sense of superiority is unbounded and turns him into a jerk around friends and family. His focus on cool reminds me of mine… but even more of Dan’s, with his desire to be the only one in on the obscure, his distaste for anything that turns popular.
In the end, it’s a great look at someone very like a more extreme version of me and my friends in junior high and high school. The same jealousies, dominance issues, and friendship choices loomed in his life. In the end, he sets up fantasy and reality as the dichotomy and chooses reality. For him, that’s victory, and I’m happy to let him mark it so. (Of course, I also note that my own identity is quite wound up in roleplaying– despite all the differences between us, I mostly ignored them and read along as if I was almost him. The differences in nation, schooling, social circles, and the like weren’t a huge consideration… which shows what an issue it is for me.)
I liked it, both for the familiarity and the differences. It’s a little amusing the ends he has go to in order to remain apart from the world of fantasy… but only because I’ve made little effort to separate myself from it. Something tells me that it’d be as painful a scab to pick… if I chose to. For now, I still look forward to gaming in the old folks home with my wife.
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Next Game: Friday January 30th
We’re looking forward to a session this Friday, January 30th. If you’ll have a problem making it, please let us know.
You finished the last session at the plantation where the demons were slaughtering the fleeing people. You’re just a few hours away from the city now, if you continue down stream. (You can see it in the distance.)
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Recent Roleplaying in Hanford
Currently playing D&D: 4e, run by Brian. Fun, teamwork is really rewarded, as we discover again and again.
Saga Star Wars, has been a surprise hit. A lot like D&D 3.75, in an awesome setting. Run by Bryan, includes two ten session mini-series (movies).
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Next Game: Friday, Jan 23rd
If you think you’ll have a problem making it, please let us know. Otherwise, I’m looking forward to resuming your mission of destruction on Friday.
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Next Game: Friday, Jan. 16th
After defeating and killing the Dwarven King (though the body vanished), the group decided to hole up and enjoy a few tankards celebrating their victory. Can everyone make it Friday? Let us know if Friday won’t work– otherwise we’ll start at 6:30 as usual.
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Friday, Jan 9th
We resume on Friday, the 9th. Does anyone have a problem making it? We’ll need to figure out schedules and possibilities, and make sure that Fridays are still available for everyone given the new semester.
Does anyone remember where we left off? You just defeated the remainder of the elite guard, in the snow, a day and a half’s march from the great volcano. Any thoughts on your upcoming actions so I can prep appropriately?
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Gaming Next Year
Enjoy Christmas and Boxing Day (the 26th). Friday, January 2nd is looking unlikely– Jennifer’s Mom is due in from Salt Lake around then. If they run behind schedule, I’ll call around and try to schedule a last minute game. Otherwise, we’re looking at the following Friday, January 9th. How does that work for you?