Adventurer's Guild

I have been making a lot of personal posts recently. It is my nature to rant. Our Marvel game is postponed this weekend. We are going to take a stab at the D&D Next playtest materials though. I know it isn't a huge deal, right? It's just another version of D&D. If you've followed the developments in the gaming community, every few years they decide to release a new edition. But it's always something we enjoy. Like most consumers it is rarely a need which drives gamers to make a purchase. You are going to fall out dead if you don't head to the store the day Diablo 3 hits the shelves. Most folks just pre-order in advance and get the title as soon as possible. The excitement of having something shiny and new is fun for a while. With D&D Next the thing that has impressed me the most is the build up. This edition isn't coming out for another year (the madness). So what did Wizards do? They issued a playtest. Anyone willing to give them a...

Been wandering around in my head a little today. Not that it wasn't an unproductive day by any means. I have watched some really cool videos, read a little, interacted via Facebook, but still not making any moves. I feel like despite my intentions things are seriously becoming harder and harder for me to stay focused on what I should be doing. There was a time this morning where a little voice from my subconscious asked me what I wanted. For the hundreth time this week, I wanted to scream 'I don't want anything I don't already have!' To me I am pretty comfortable being who I am. Sure I miss my friends, people around me all the time, my darling girl- but none of that is happiness in itself. My battles are internal.

It's pretty weird, that I woke up today thinking about all kinds of stuff. I just haven't been happy at all recently. Kinda shying away from gaming in this post I wanted to take a few minutes to jot down some stuff about heroes. Growing up sure I had my comic books and rock stars, but as I've wandered my path I have always known what was cool. Like I said I was feeling pretty down this morning. I was scrolling through my Netflix selections and found a video on Christian Hosoi. Now I wasn't a huge skateboarder. But so much in the video goes into memories of my youth. Guys like Chris Ogles and Tommy Sherer were fucking superstars to me. One spot in the Hosoi video talked about how he ripped his shirts up all the time. Do you remember the sleeves tees from the 80's. Kids wearing the sleeves ripped off the t-shirts like a headband. I don't know it was just so weird to see that and remember the guys I used to hang around. It is like my friendship w...

Well, I went on to Twitter today and followed like a hundred people. Wired.com created a list of geeks everyone should follow. A lot of the names were familiar, but I am really more interested in some of the people I haven't heard of. Knowledge is power (right Ice-T). It has been so hard for me to stay focused on anything. We haven't been playing tabletop or RPG's, I have let all the computer games and forums slip, I keep having friends and family die around, not working, can't write, my girl dumped me on Mother's Day. It is ludicrous. One of these days things are going to get easier. Maybe when the Mayan calender closes out this year, we really will end up in a new world order.

With the launch of the new Marvel role playing game my group has been debating about what characters we should play.  One classic convention in our games has always involved returning to characters we played when we were younger.  Our gang of friends really dates back to my brother's friends from high school.  He and I had an interest in pen and paper games dating back to the late 70's when my cousin introduced us to Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, but our more serious interest in the hobby probably crested while he was in the first few years of high school.  It was then we met the guys who would become the lifelong friends we shared over the next thirty years. To me it is always fun to develop new characters in any of these systems, but there is something about the nostalgia of developing older campaigns with a new twist.  The Crimebusters were born of their gaming sessions during the lunch break at school using the first Marvel RPG system.  It was d100 b...

Awesome! Can't wait to check out this game. DUNGEONBOWL

It's been while since I posted anything on here. Just really haven't been doing any RPG stuff at all. Other than digital stuff like Blood Bowl and Star Wars: The Old Republic, my gaming has been slim over the last year. I am hoping to put together something with my friends using the Marvel RPG by Tracy Weiss, but Amazon keeps delaying the release date. I did get to look at the .pdf and the rules seem awesome. It kinda sucks that since we've aged our group is a little scattered these days with work and family stuff. But to all the games we didn't play at least other things are getting done. : )