Cool online store that sells old-school gaming merchandise. http://www.dragontrove.com/listing.html
Cool study about positive psychological and therapeutic effects of DnD: http://www.rpgstudies.net/blackmon/dungeons_and_dragons/
Something which I ought not to forgot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien%27s_legendarium
Sign up for Marvel Comics 4ever??!! http://marvel.com/digitalcomics/characters/Captain%20America%20%28Steve%20Rogers%29/page/1?gallery_viewmode=list
Moral Kombat, a full-length documentary (free until mid February or sommat) about the intersection of First Amendment rights and what to do about violence in gaming. Don't know whether it's any good. http://www.babelgum.com/browser.php#play/SEARCH_SIMILAR,clipID:4022951,includeClip:true,order:MOST_RELEVANT/0,4022951
GAMING STUDIES (these are pretty interesting though few of them are in English): http://www.rpgstudies.net/
RELIGION OF COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS (AWESOME!!!!) http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/comic_book_religion.html
List of 3.5 Prestige Classes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prestige_classes
Friday, January 22, 2010
I owe you something. Do you know what it is? It is a BLOG POST. Do you know what I will give you? YES.
First, this. It is a scene from a banned episode of Pokemon. Why is it banned, you say? Click on, gentle reader, click on.
SPEEDO BADGE: Allows up to 100 Pokemon of level 30 or below to hump you. Any more, and they become UNRULY!
You can subscribe to all of Marvel's comics, digitized, for 60 dollars a year. 60 dollars a year!!! ALL of their comics (not all are currently digitized). Note: split between 4 pwnerers, this would amount to fifteen dollars each. Are you out there?
Item next: Gaming. I will sum up: I am mad. As you know, I play in my own Pathfinder Group Fridays from 4-7. I play a PC (superbroken half-werewolf fighter) in a 4th edition campaign Saturday 2-5. My Cleric is thinking about DMing his own 3.5 group, in which case I would be tempted to start playing in a third group! Then, there are 7 of us who want to have a once-in-a-while Diablo II LAN group going. 4 groups would likely amount to 12 hours of gaming a week, probably all on weekends (Friday counts). Is it terrible for my life and for my schoolwork? Yes, one thousand times yes. It is completely and utterly awesome? YES!
Item next: Friends I have them now. A lot of them, in fact. I have grown closer to the entity known as the people next door. This entity is rather like Stashley except that it is composed of five people, and not two. Steven, your sexual exploits are nothing compared to this raging behemoth of gaming flesh (I kid...?) Earlier this week I gravely offended my friend Patti, who is for all intents and purposes my best friend here (or was until this weekend). It created three days of unspeakable horror for me and probably for her. But, I fixed it and now we are friends again. A piece of advice: one ought not to bring up dead relatives, especially unnecessarily, flippantly, or in a way that seems insulting. Get it?
Item next: Classes Yes, I am truly mad. I am enrolled for 18 credits; essentially, I am taking 22. Combined with my burgeoning piano and voice practice times, this does not make for a happy schedule. ... Actually, it just might. I recently mapped out every hour of every day. Obsessive-compulsive? Maybe. It greatly sensitizes you to your time, however, and although I have not stuck entirely to it, it has thus far proven a great boon to overall efficiency.
Item next: Norwescon Recently one of my friends from Central offered to pay for my housing and registration for Norwescon, a science fiction and fantasy convention near the SeaTac airport. He is giving several presentations regarding philosophy in gaming and he really wants me to come. So: I am going to Norwescon, for free or greatly reduced price!!! My parents were surprisingly okay when I told them that I would be staying home during 2 days of the first week of spring quarter to go to a gaming convention. Will it be awesome? Yes. Yes it will.
Item next: Gaming systems I am currently researching different roleplaying systems for us to try sometime. Nothing personal, but I will not explain them to you. You must study them yourself to fully grasp their mechanical and philosophical ramifications. One system with which I am pleased is Tri-Stat Dx. It is available for free after some searching. No, I am not speaking of converting our current campaign; I have invested too much money in Pathfinder to betray the Sunken Cost Fallacy now. I am talking about playing a new game sometime. In fact, I have one in mind. Will it blow your socks off? Yes. Yes it will.
Item Next: Amorous affairs None of which to speak. I have had many Platonic affairs (by which I mean, interactions, not hookups). I have made many friends during this week, and of the friends that I had — they were made better.
Item Next: Rosa Ostrom Has a boyfriend now. Shall we make fun?
