As promised, here are the answers to the AMA I posted earlier in the month. (You can ask more in the comments, if you feel so inclined.)

Tell the truth: Jekyll is genetically engineered to live to 50, isn't he? How much did you pay the djinn for that?Jeckyll P. Kitty, our house-tiger, just turned 17 and he has acted like a kitten-for-life up to ( Read more... )

It's a busy week, with extra to do at work on top of getting ready for a holiday weekend, and LJ Idol has the remaining contestants running the gantlet of six topics this week -- so I may not do any home-gaming this time.

For now, I'll post a few notes about my recent goings-on.

On Saturday we day-tripped down to the Cincinnati to visit the Newport ( Read more... )

In the days when I frequently played Dungeons & Dragons, one of my favorite player characters was a dragon.

A Fairy Dragon, to be precise.

We came across this creature in the pages of one of the Advanced D&D books from the late-80s and I thought that even more fun than encountering one would be to play one.

The Dungeon Master didn't agree. However, I ( Read more... )

(Who? Origin here)

Had a good Memorial Day weekend, managing to mostly ignore a certain race, instead going out to lunch that Saturday with veronica_rich  and dahlianna , during which it was decided that the_dark_snack  and I would spend the day as our aliases, Doug and Carlotta (whom we had suspected had been taken in the May 21 Rapture, but since it didn't happen after all...).

That ( Read more... )

So, here we go, my post-convention post.

To quote a kid we took with us one year back in the 90s: "GenCon -- cool."

We underwent our annual mission to try out and get review copies of new card and board games, and we scored quite a bit on that. Lots of fun titles, including a couple of games based on Asian cuisine and (on the other end of the ( Read more... )

I'm not into World of Warcrack, but I can understand the appeal...

(WARNING: Contains earworm)

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More awesomeness from Felicia Day, from her "Guild" online series.

Got time for just a quick recap of GenCon.

The atmosphere was more laid back this time. I didn't want to be burdened down with a whole lot of games, and with the down economy, there weren't a whole lot of new ones anyway. So we ended up with about a dozen or so to review. It was fun taking our time through the Exhibit Hall, and we got to touch base ( Read more... )

My "Big Bang Theory" fan friends should appreciate this.

The "Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock" T-shirt.

Makes a handy reference for the connections. Y'all may have seen it before, I'm posting mainly so I'll have the link handy. =)

(Big thanks to weeji  for sending the link to me)

Apologies for not finding a link as word is just now circulating, but according to someone I'm sure would never joke about such things, Dave Arneson is joining Gary Gygax in the Outer Planes. I know it's said that God doesn't play with dice, but no doubt they have a good D&D campaign going with some of the angels.

Best I could find is that word had ( Read more... )

Oh, wait, that's not what's in this package...

Correction: I now have Monty Python Fluxx!

Let the silliness begin.