David Given Schwarm

Dragons of Winter Night by Margaret Weis My rating: 4 of 5 stars Fantastic continuation of the classic D&D Novel Series. Totally worth reading, but not as ground breaking and amazing as the first one. View all my reviews

Neurodharma: New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness by Rick Hanson My rating: 3 of 5 stars Not sure about this one…there are a lot of meditation practices–like guided meditaion strategies. There is not that much New Science–I was hoping for a kind of Meditation in the Digital Age type weird…

My Blizzard Crew continues Rise of the Runelords–we have been playing for four years and are in chapter 3 (that is VERY slow) for context–this is a mostly roll play game. This week we spent a lot of time on Jill’s potentially haunted new house–we are planning to smudge it as well as the bands…

Another great week of D&D Encounters Adventure League play at Alakazam Comics in Irvine, CA. This week DM Richard continued the attach on the party from Lizard Arms Dealers and some pirate brigands. Alice the Woke used Hold Person to lock down one Lizard Man, but then had to go toe to toe with her…