At GAMA this year, Wizards of the Coast had a D&D Breakfast where they outlined their strategy for the future of D&D and the D&D Miniatures line. GamingReport.com posted the slides they displayed, and later I transcribed them for ENworld readers. I’m now going to copy them to here so that I’ve got a record somewhere on my site of what they said. I found … Continue reading The Future of D&D
I have a love/hate relationship with Microsoft’s Visual Basic .NET On the one hand, it allows me to do a lot of things that I was never able to do before. On the other, I have to learn how it does things, as opposed to the previous version. In my job, I have to do a fair amount of database programming. Visual Basic had one … Continue reading Life of a Computer Programmer
This is another of my messageboard posts, this time to ENworld. No miniature stuff here, just RPG-related material. Once upon a time, when role-playing was new to me, there was a role-playing game put out by Victory Games that allowed you to participate in adventures set in the world of James Bond. (That’s a long-winded way of saying: There once was a James Bond RPG). … Continue reading The Adversarial DM
I posted this several days ago on the Wizards boards, but I think it’s worth posting again here. Ouch. My brain hurts. I’ve been reading too many negative posts. Mike, Rob, Des, Jonathan – and everyone else who is involved in making the D&D Miniatures game – Thank you. Thank you for all the time you’ve put into this game, trying to make it the … Continue reading In Praise of Wizards
If there’s one thing that can confuse people, it is that the rules of the D&D RPG and the D&D Miniatures skirmish game aren’t the same. I see it over and over again, people thinking that because something works one way in the RPG, it must work the same way in the Skirmish game. Fortunately, they don’t. Why do I say fortunately? It’s because the … Continue reading RPG vs Skirmish game rule issues
I ended the last entry of this blog with an unexpected postscript: a hen had become a mother. I can now tell you that there are two little baby chickens running about, coloured black and white like all the other chickens this hen has hatched out. Now I have to worry about a fox or cat getting them. (Surely not Lily!) I spent part of … Continue reading Of Chickens and Warbands
I took another step into the great world of self-sufficiency today: I bought some shoelaces. There’s probably a great parable here about One Man’s Need for Shoelaces and what it means in his relationship with the world, but it probably doesn’t apply to me, because I have bought shoelaces before. True, this was the first time I bought them whilst I’ve been living on my … Continue reading Of Warlords and Shoelaces (and Chickens!)
Every second Sunday I meet up with my friends to play D&D. Before that, I get a chance to play some other games. For instance, this last Sunday we played: Lord of the Rings boardgame with the Sauron expansion San Marco boardgame D&D Miniatures Unusually, we didn’t end up playing D&D. I’m taking a break from DMing – I’ve been running this group for the … Continue reading Sunday Gaming Day
Is this thing on? I’m using a Weblogging site that apparently will upload the results to my webpage. That’s cool, and it’s easier than me doing all the html coding myself. (I do so on the rest of my pages – which is why they have a somewhat spartan look at times). Today marks the beginning of a new adventure: Living On My Own At … Continue reading Alone At Home with Only A Cat for Company
