So, the Civ Day went rather well today, even if one of the players had to stay home sick. It went pretty quickly at about ten hours. This included pauses for various breaks and even a stop, albeit brief, for dinner. Yum! Chicken Peanut Stew. I think having most of the people know what they're doing really helped and our new player picked it up ( Read more... )

As mentioned before, we're having Advanced Civilization Day on the 27th. We plan on gathering at noon and starting play at 1p. We'll have food and some drinks but if you want something special, you should likely bring it. If you want a refresher on the rules, you can read a text version or a PDF version. There are typos and obvious OCR ( Read more... )

We're going to be playing Advanced Civilization on Saturday the 27th of January. It's a rather long game, so we'll be gathering about noon and starting play at 1p. We don't expect to be done until midnight or so. If you're interested, please comment. I know that we have at least one person that wants to play and I'm pretty sure about two others ( Read more... )

• My bus today had an advertisement that said that it has WiFi on the bus. That's really nifty as well as really odd. It's similar to the first time that I saw a 5-pack of writable DVDs in the checkout line at Fred Meyer's.
• I've noticed that at this time of the year, I read more mass-sized paperbacks than other times of the year. I've traced this ( Read more... )

As reminded by elfric here, he and I are planning an Advanced Civilization game on the 17th of January, a Saturday. I think that I've had a number of respondents already and I've got the slots filled, at least for this game. We'll definitely have another one and this next one won't be during a con. (Rustycon is the same weekend ( Read more... )