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China Mieville
“The problem with most genre fantasy is that it’s not nearly fantastic enough. It’s escapist, but it can’t escape.”
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Elemental Evil–D&D Encounters S20 S11
Another huge night of D&D Encounters after a I missed two in a row because of work…. Before the game we did a T-Shirt selfie contest Which was awesome. Jack and I were a little late this week & the action was already on outside the shop at DM Camille’s table [he was filling in…
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DM Summit @ Native Foods
I rode my bike over the district & ordered a Soul Bowl at Native Foods which is without a doubt the best thing on the menu.Camille had posted up at the outdoor table by the fire place right out side the movie theater–it was a perfect day We talked college, girlfriends career, RenFaire, and a…
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PODCAST VIRTUAL TABLES & BOARD GAMES
Another great D&D Podcast The blurb for this one reads We talk with Doug Davison from Fantasy Grounds, and then a visit from R&D Gamer Designers Chris Dupuis and Ben Petrisor.Fantasy GroundsFantasy Grounds is an application acting as a virtual online gaming table primarily intended for pen and paper style narrative roleplaying games. Designed to…
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Round Table 71 – Dragon+ and Survey Results Review
A rather short episode this week–they open with what is your favorite module & someone says the Dinosaur Lair Assualt which really was great!The blurb has: James Introcaso sits down with Joe Lastowski, Andrew Kane, and Vegas Lancaster to discuss the newly launched Dragon+ app and the results of the second D&D 5th Edition survey. This podcast was recorded on May 21, 2015. I…
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D20 Gets Worse
So recently I lost my D20 & it appears that his downward spiral continues. We may be past the time for intervention!
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Gamex 2015
Jack & I headed to Gamex this weekend. The highlight was likely the tourists with the dead battery on level four–luckily we had jumper cables & after jumping their car took their fantastic parking spot. Of course, this spot ended up coasting us US$30 for the day! I am seriously considering finding a cheaper way to attend next…
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CypherCaster Magazine – Issue 001 (May 2015)
DriveThruRPG is offering the first issue of Cypher Caster Magazine for $4. This is a no brainer for anyone playing and/or interested in Numenera–a good quick read on all the things currently going on with the Monte Cook Games Cypher system–it often reads like an extended press release–but includes a lot of very creative ideas from the community.…
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Using Fantasy Grounds–Installation, part 1
After listening to a Tome Show Round Table episode on Fantasy Grounds, I finally decided to install it and give it a go.The down-loader, FGWebInstall.exe was easy to find & ran very smoothly–totally impressed with this & if the ‘patch system’ which sends updates to content works this well without Steam I will be very impressed. I…
David Given Schwarm
Married, Father, United
David Given Schwarm 