This blog...

...is no longer a lie...I do indeed own a light saber... 

in other news...

Wil Wheaton, besides writing an excellent blog, writes an article at Suicide Girls dot Com called "Geek in Review".. and this week's article is all about DnD 4th Edition.  Really great read.

(be warned, that site is known for naked girls, if you don't like naked girls... don't go (NSFW).. though that particular area is usually OK)

http://suicidegirls.com/news/geek/23470/

some of my favorite bits from the article below...

"This is a game that is fun. It helps you imagine."

"(Speaking of WoW, I wonder if WoW is, for some gamers, "the other woman," threatening to split the party with a siren's call that's taking potential players out of our world and never giving them back...could that be why so many hobby gamers hate it so much? And if so, wouldn't it make more sense to hate on CCGs, which sucked away RPG players ten years before anyone knew what Warcraft was? Hey, as long as I'm kicking over anthills today, I'm going to make sure I stomp on as many as I can.)"

Random Life Update!

Well.. life continues onward.. not stopping to ever let someone catch up and make some blog posts.. but here I am valiantly trying to keep up and catalog the happening of my life in digital text form.. probably unlikely to succeed, but I will have fun trying... I think...

So.. to get you all caught up.. over the summer I went home for about a month... I was living here in eastern PA with my sister, who then suddenly decided to move back home.. leaving me
kinda stuck. So I went home, got my learner's permit, learned to drive, bought a car, got my License, and (the same day I passed my drivers test) drove across the state of PA (well, kinda from the midway point) (did all that in about 4 weeks) - and now returned here to Eastern PA.. where I like it very much. I share a house with two other gents.. one and Accountant, the other a Park Ranger. They are nice guys, and one is very into video games like me (the accountant).. and we have a Two-360 household for it.

Work goes along fine.. we have been very busy... which is good for us... and we have the big store remodeling project in the next two weeks.. and it will be sooo nice to have the added room and work-flow problems fixed. And the additional computer for getting design work done... I am nearing my 2 year anniversary... which is crazy... seems like it wasn't that long ago I ws in Ohio playing DnD and working at a shitty Kinkos job... things have had their rocky spots out here (still trying to get my finances straightened out) but overall... it was the right move to make.

Have been playing alot more 360 and alot less WoW of late... I still enjoy WoW, but as of late the 360 has had the superior experiences.. Bioshock was amazing... and Halo 3 is a blast. (not to mention "the game" which comes out next month, hoorah!) Also looking forward to some awesome fighting action in Virtua Fighter 5, later this month...

We have a gaming weekend coming up, so I will have to buckle down and finish up my adventure for our IK group.. we play so little, and the gaps between our sessions makes it hard to keep a good focus on the characters.. but we still have a blast when we play. (which is whats really important...)

I am anxiously awaiting the TV return of BSG.. and November is the month (partly) There is a two-hour "movie" airing then called Razor (which will be frakkin awesome).. and then after that the looong wait until 2008 begins again for the final season (Season 4).. best damn show on TV...
I don't watch much else.. other than some Enterprise re-runs on sci-fi, Pain Killer Jane wasn't bad either... and Ninja Warrior on G4 is hilarious! I also watch Attack of the Show from time to time.. but only because I think Olivia Mun is great eye candy...(especially when wearing a Star Wars costume)

I do want to start blogging in my Star Wars blog again.. but thinking up a good post..is difficult... but I do miss that community.... some really smart and very cool people dwell there... and unlike here, people will actually read the blog, lol.

WIDGETS

Widgets make life easy in the blogging world... especially for those of us with limited html-experience. *raises hand*

I added some more to my blog.. as you can no doubt HEAR.. as this crazy music/dance/time thing is going on over there... I'll probably move it, or delete it eventually, but for now.. its cool. It has some very pretty Asian women dancing... why? Who knows...but if you even need to know what time it is.. I have you covered.

Also added a cool iTunes widget.. which updates with my current iTunes info.. music, TV, podcasts, whatever...

GenCon 2007!

EDIT: BONUS! MORE PICS ADDED! :)

EDIT 2: Added Link to the True Dungeon Reveal! Check out the story of the cool dungeon we went through! :)

Actual shot from the streets of Indianapolis! What a cool town :)

So another GenCon has come and gone. Much fun was had by all. It was a great Con, as it always is.. lots of new stuff to buy, lots of babes to gawk at, lots of games to play, and lots of time with my good friends... a perfect weekend.

So what went down at GenCon? well lets start with Role-Playing...

The bigs RPG news was of course 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons from Wizards of the Coast. Releasing in May 2008. I didn't actually attend the "unveiling event" I was busy playing other things (see below).. but you can watch the entire event on You Tube.. so its all good. Speaking of which, heres some of those vidoes now.. (don'tcha love the internet?)

PART 1

PART 2

PART 3

PART 4

So my opinion on this whole thing keeps changing... my first impression is What the Hell?? D20 has been going strong for years now, there is TONS of OGL content out there, and WotC itself has a bazillion books out there.. why re-do it all? After watching the vids.. I can see some of their reasoning.. and I am intrugued. I would like to go on.. but this is a overall GenCon post, not a 4th Edition DnD post.. catch me in the comments or in e-mail and we can talk specifically about it. One thing I will say that I am looking forward to with the 4E release are the online tools.. all I have to say is... Its about Fucking Time Wizards got their Heads out of the Archaic Asses! Online character builders? Online encounter builders? Online DnD playing (for those that live far apart)?.. Yes Please!

Other RPG type stuff.. we continued our yearly transformer game, ran by my friend/cousin Dave.. this time it had a twist where we were playing the bad guys. (I played a particularly evil Insecticon named, Mindswipe) It was great game, and much fun, as it always is. Dave runs a great game, and his love for Transformers shows through in his role-playing.

We also tried a new game I had been wanting to try for a while now. Its a large group RPG with alot of humor called Kobolds Ate My Baby...it was a blast.. you play little kobolds who are trying to ..well.. eat babies. You are not smart, and you die alot, usually in horrible ways. :) It is fun. Worth checking out.

How about Miniatures? well.. it was all about Hordes:Evolution.

Which is an amazing expansion to the already awesome miniatures game from Privateer Press. Their products get exponentially better year by year.. and this is no exception. The new models are awesome, and thier artists/sculptors never disappoint... the new Warpwolf Extreme Model is gorgeous... here are few pics I grabbed with my phone...

We also played a mini-campaign that we wrote that involved around the discovery and capture of an Arcane Mechanic and his rampaging warjacks. We didn't actually make it to the end of it.. (we did need to sleep ya know) .. but we had some awesome battles. A notable one was the battle betwixt myself playing Morvahna the Autumnblade (Circle Orboros) vs. my pal Rob playing Vlad (Khador).. it was a brutal battle that came down to warcaster vs. warlock.. the way all battles should end...

We also sampled a new board game.. the new StarCraft Board game from Fantasy Flight Games. Its was really awesome.. this is a game kinda of in the vein of Arkham Horror.. big, complex, and way fun to play.

Saw some cool WoW footage in the exhibit hall, they were running some of Wrath of the Lich King, which looks perty cool.. and Star Craft 2 was up and running.. and it looked amazing!

And it would not be GenCon without the ever evolving and always cool True Dungeon. This one had some cool puzzles.. and some very difficult puzzles... and we slayed a Shambling Mound, a Medusa (good thing we had all those scrolls of Stone to Flesh) and for the first time in our GenCon careers.. WE SURVIVED! Here is the story of the Dungeon we went through! The puzzles were paticularly devious this year! =D

and of course.. the babes make GenCon what it is... heres some pics!

So the chick above is carving SPAM.. yes SPAM... but more importantly that is DuctTape Girl.. she goes to GenCon every year and always wears home-made and revealing costumes each year. We alwats speculate as to what she will wear each given year.. and seeing her fine costumed form each year is a grand thing. More pics below... the Master Chief himself.. and me and my buds hanging out in the WotC area...

Life Size DnD Troll




The miniature that wouldn't fall over! Must be an act of Menoth!



And one last pic of Mike (Moron) standing on the streets of Indy, taking in the Public Art.. 5 Guys Waiting...