Gamers Unite!

A cool article for gamers that enjoy miniatures concerning the new kickstarter by Reaper.  Good to see that gamers can have a show of force that other people notice.

http://www.wired.com/design/2012/08/reaper-miniatures-bones-kickstarter-success/

Adventures at Sea!

I have recently been asked to run a night of our weekly d&d session by some of the other gm's in an attempt to take the burden off them from the weekly grind. Originally it was planning on running an adventure in the realm of the sky giants, an area locked in a bitter battle between the lords of the sky and the sky elves.  The elves being unique in the aspect that they have learned to harness the elements, including elementals themselves for their sky-ships, to fight their battles and reign supreme in the sky. This was the atmosphere I was originally working on, until my fellow gamers saw me get all excited about Shark Week while eating at a restaurant during Gen Con and decided I should have the watery world below the waves as my personal domain. I have been working loosely on these ideas, as I have been very busy with my personal life recently, but I broke the areas I am working on into a couple sub-groups, complete with different encounters, tentative characters, and themes: the coast, the reef, mouth of the large river, the sunken city, floating above the waves (ships and such), sea caves, the dark sea, floating city, islands, and some other miscellaneous ideas.  I will follow this with other little posts about the beasts, climate, and ideas behind each as I flesh them out more myself. Until them, anchors away!

Oh Those Jagged Teeth

As many know, this week is shark week. It is a time to study the animals of the deep with their fearsome rows of jagged teeth, emotionless eyes, and streamline bodies that mean death to anything they set their hungry maws on. I know these awe-inspiring creatures have much more to fear from us then we do from them, but they still manage to evoke something deep and old in us: the primal fear. We sit there with elevated heartbeat, widened eyes, and tensed muscles, a natural and life-saving response to anything that could bring about out our earthly demise; we sit and try to put on brave faces against a creature deep down we know we could do little against if it decided it wanted us, and hang in this limbo provoked by fear, but countered by bravery.  When we face that low-moaning wight, deep-breathing dragon, or shining bulette in the realms of our imagination during role-play, I hope to remember this concoction of emotions in the face of crippling fear and act accordingly, for while bravery is admirable, I honestly doubt most people would mix with such creatures and not feel the natural desire to sprint or swim to the closest safe place. 

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Have to start somewhere

Well this is a new thing, blogging that is.  I have always been shy about putting my writing in the public eye, probably some unfounded fear of being ridiculed or something, but as the saying goes I have to start somewhere. So here it is, the beginning of something new, something exciting, and a way for me to finally put myself out there.  So sit back and enjoy the writings of the littlest barbarian.