Tag: gaming

  • Trail Rations: Hearty Slow-cooker Slaw Stew

    My regular Thursday night group has a long tradition of eating a shared meal before we game. It started when we gamed at our then GM’s house and his lovely wife (also a member of our motley band) would prepare dinner for us. We kept that practice intact until Scott and Sheila moved, then there…

  • Year of the Con: Gencon

    Let’s assume I’ve made the standard excuses for a long blog absence, and you have decided to forgive me or not.  Stuff that happened during that absence will end up on the blog eventually but it is not part of today’s subject.  Because today’s subject is… Gencon! I made it back this year, against some…

  • Hump Day Links for June 6

    Wow, a hump day and it’s cold, raining and thundery.  You might need these links more than ever… – Frodo had The One Ring; I have this.  My birthday is coming up, that’s all I’m saying… – In addition to stairs, Daleks were apparently stymied by buses. – Would you believe Wright, Pegg and Frost are getting…

  • DnD Next: Three Things I Like at First Glance

    With the start of the public play-test for the next iteration of Dungeons and Dragons recently, you have either been blissfully unaware (if you are not a gamer) or have read roughly a bazillion posts on gaming sites spanning the webz.  For those that have remained thus far ignorant, sorry to get my gaming nerd…

  • The Games Room: Making It Right!

    If there is a second great love in my life behind gaming, it is home improvement.  I love HGTV (though if you are listening, producers, less shows about buying property, more actual renovation shows!) and I will watch DIY Disaster, Holmes on Homes, Holmes Inspection, Sarah’s House et al for hours.  And thanks to a…

  • The Best Little Dicebag I’ve Ever Owned

    I’ll admit, I was just a little stumped about what to write today.  Oh, I have things for tomorrow and Thursday, no problem.  But today I was struggling. And then it arrived.  The package I have been waiting for since I placed my order ten days ago.  The parcel that had me staring out the…