D&D gamers have a superstitious and paranoid belief in the whimsical (and hateful) personalities of dice. They like you or they hate you. They can become cursed. They lord over the fates of our characters like aloof yet sadistic polyhedral deities. But they have weaknesses of their own, apparently ( Read more... )

Curious Observations of Other-worldly Politics ( Read more... )

Extra Vaule Comba Alpha by ~Lysol-Jones on deviantARTAnd now I've almost seen everything. There's only one fighting game I want to see: Presidential Primary '08. Oh yeah. Anyone remember Mortal Kombat II? Well, it's not difficult for me to imagine a certain grammatically (and intellectually) challenged ye-olde-Texan-in-Chief as the would-be emperor ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about D&D for half the night. I've been reading Time magazine and thinking about the Iraq war and other political nonsense for the other half. Dealing with traffic and sundry vehicular morons has cast a rather cynical bent on my thoughts. I found myself thinking about the land of Faerun in the Forgotten Realms D&D setting, and ( Read more... )

For some unknown reason I decided to tinker with my LJ profile a bit. Changed the layout, gave it a new title, the "leave comment" dialogue is a little more threatening...all in a day's work. Also got around to adding some people to my friends list that had already added me quite some time ago. If you were included on this list I apologize, but ( Read more... )