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The other purchase I was focused on during the recent Gencon event was obtaining a copy of the newly released Star Wars X-Wing, revised for a 2nd edition. Officially, the game is being released I believe in early September to stores, but Fantasy Flight had brought an overly healthy supply to the convention for early sales. This isn’t a game that I had originally decided to get into, favoring instead Star Wars Armada, but with the new edition it looked to be a good time to start. In my mind, it was previously just too heavily supported, and I would…
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During the recent Gencon convention, my son and I had the opportunity to do a short playtest of the new mechanics being rolled out for Pathfinder 2nd Edition. Nothing super fancy, just a basic combat scenario with low level characters, to see what the differences were. We were teamed up with 3 other players, two of which had practically no experience, and one of which was another experienced gamer. I played the revised Kyra, Cleric of Sarenrae, and George played Fumbus, the Goblin Alchemist.
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Had a fun mini-vacation with the family over the weekend, attending Gencon this year. We only went for the Sunday “family day”, mainly to save a bit on cost, but realized after the fact that that may just not be enough time any longer. It used to be that a single day was enough to see everything, now we didn’t even make it thru all of the vendor hall. Admittedly the wife and younger son didn’t have much interest, but the older son and myself were eager. There was just only so much walking and seeing that could be done…
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Football season is upon us, and that means my younger son is hard at practice with training for his now 5th grade team. One of the volunteer duties of the parents is that one person is asked/volunteers to film all of the games, for review by the coaches and players. Not too hard, but something that one of the other dads typically have done in the past. This year, I was volunteered to do so.
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Over the years, I have had more than a few occasions to smell the nearby presence of a skunk, though fortunately never have we had a direct confrontation. This despite curious dogs, and more than a few known critters in our neighborhood. Unfortunately, last night around 2 AM, our dog managed to break that streak, and after running from the backyard, we discovered a rather pungent odor. It was enough to permeate the house, and wake up the wife, and the dog was none too happy as well. What followed was some rather frantic google-searching, followed by a series of…
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For something completely different from my usual gaming related posts, let me shift gears to OneDrive cloud storage. I have for several years now subscribed to Office365 as a family plan, which not only allows me to use Office software on several computers, but also allows me a different OneDrive account with 1 TB of storage for each family member. If anything, this has always been a bit of overkill for most of the family – my kids are simply too young to really generate any data other than video game save files, and my wife really doesn’t create much…
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As a reminder for our upcoming schedule, we will not be continuing our regularly scheduled Roll20 version of Shadowrun this weekend, due to the GenCon convention in Indianapolis. A number of our players, including myself, will be attending for Family Day on Sunday, to see the sites and take a look at the latest in new gaming developments.
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In our latest session, the group wrapped up the Shimmering Veils of Pride, deep in the Runeforge. By the end of the session, they had solved several challenges, including a detailed process to create their Dominating weapons, and had clues as to how to eventually escape Runeforge. In the process, they first had to deal with an invulnerable giant peacock, and a set of 6 clones spell casters, all in the mirrored cathedral. All of that probably sounds a lot crazier than it actually was. Following the events of the last session, where the group fought their own evil mirror…
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Something about nothing – a collection of miscellaneous hobbies
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