Adventurer's Guild

I always wondered why in the Marvel Universe the technological advancements were always limited to the superheroes. If Mister Fantastic developed water breathing pills in the 50’s why has it taken so long for them to come into mass production? Guys like Antman, Iron Man, the Wizard, Arnim Zola- none of them every produced this technology for the mass market. It just doesn’t make sense to do one-offs or knock out a single piece at a time. Most of the money in R&D is in the planning and process phase to produce a single proto-type. You would think that somewhere along the line a world populated by superheroes would change. Some of it does make sense. If Klaw’s sonic powers come from vibranium we understand there is a limited amount of that material in the world. But just because the Ultron robot is made out of admantium doesn’t mean we can’t make a similar machine built out of aluminum or carbon fiber. It just seems very strange that in a world populated with several super ...

The bartender poured an ale for the dwarf and settled down on a stool he had behind the counter. The common room was nearly empty at this time of day. It was place frequented more by travelers than anyone local, but that was the nature of the entire city of Deephaven. Few humans chose a subterranean place to live, but Murphy had been excited to open a location inside the carved stone walls. More dungeon than town, it was carved in the stone cliffs looking over the eastern banks of the Opporn Sea. Strong winds had weathered the entrance of the citadel, but the residents were protected from nearly everything when they barred the doors. Even a siege would be hard to engage as the city housed a portal to the far away city of Skarshend deep within the confines of the Mage’s Guild. That is how Nym D’Cor had made the trip. He was not fond of overland travel, camping, or even horses. Truth be told he was not fond of living in a cave. Deephaven was devoid of culture or even anything ...

We are testing out the new playtest material for D&D Next today. Almost been a year since the guys got together to roll some 20-sided dice. Gonna be great to return to Quindia. Gonna be fun to see the rest of friends. Looking forward to stuff. I turned forty yesterday, and we been kicking around these tables since 1978. I will stand up and say before the PC's and console games were even going on- we were gaming.

My initial impression of the Chaos Daemon Army in 40k is wow. I ran a battle with the help of a friend against my Eldar yesterday, and they played well. I don’t have a huge selection of models, but I have a lot of bases covered. Out of the unit choices I do have I will run down some of the highlights. Pink Horrors-shrugging off damage with a 4+ invulnerable save is beautiful. And the warpfire attack was just what I expected. The strength of the attack versus the lower Toughness of the Eldar models was great. But they even managed to drop a Vyper on hull points. Sure, you can roll 36 dice and have a bad round- but they were perfect. I have a ton of Horror models, so any list I field will be stacked with ‘shooty’ troop daemons. Bloodletters- in this game, they did not come under fire much to test their resilience. But they are strong and tough. I fielded a large unit led by a Khorne Herald on a Juggernaut. He gave them that extra little kick in hand-to-hand and killed the...