D20 Forever!

Roland just sent me an awesome clip from youtube. It is Steven Colbert being interviewed by Conan O'Brien. Steven Colbert gets a whole new level of respect from me for his D&D knowledge knowledge (+5). For those of you who may be wondering/feeling left out:

Gen Con - the largest gaming convention here in America.
Gary Gygax - orignal author of D&D and pretty much the father of roleplaying as we know it.
Len Lakofka - wrote the Lendore Isle campaign.

And if that wasn't enough here is some more!

Drop

Roland pointed me to a new cartoon today. Its on par with the Knights of the Dinner Table and Dork Tower, both of which I find very humorous. Since I'm also reading D&D 3.5, the Order of the Stick is very funny. It sort of pokes fun of some of the new things in 3.5. Reading the players handbook is slow going but steady. I've been reading a bit before going to bed every night and that seems to work well. I think Roland wishes I would read faster though. He keeps having ideas for adventure bits and pieces and is excited to get going on the whole thing. I'm debating about what sort of character to create. I kind of want to go off the usual thing I do, but I'm not sure which direction to go. Maybe just a straight up fighter. Being just the two of us, I think Roland is going to have me roll up some other PC friends that he can semi-play with me, so I have a party to crawl with. So, yeah, that last sentence...I think that elevates me to queen of the nerds or something.

Apparently Jason is throwing a Labor-ween part for his birthday this year. That sort of made me sad because this will be the first party that Roland and I won't be able to go to. Kind of a bummer. I'm going to miss the getting together with peeps for made up holidays. It started with Thankmas, invented because in college we wanted to celebrate thanksgiving and/or Christmas with our friends but we all went to our respective homes for the real holidays. So we created one in between the two and it was dubbed Thankmas. The motto of Thanksmas is: You get what you want, because you bring it. So if a holiday isn't complete for you without green bean casserole, you bring it (I won't because I seriously dislike beans). If a holiday isn't complete for you without sugarbomb yams (with sugar, and marshmallows, and more sugar), you bring it. Whatever you need for the holiday to be right, you bring. In the beginning there was a secret santa option, but that sort of died out.

After Thanksmas, came the New Years Party (yeah, no special name there just a whole lot of drinkin'), then MemEaster - which then became Cinco de MemEaster for a three holiday punch, and Labor-Pendence Day. It was pretty sweet to get together with all the peeps so often. I will miss it.

Hang Gliding

Dude...and I say dude again. THIS is about the coolest thing ever. I hope my sistrah, will try this her library. Roland will be so geeked! One of the reasons he was excited about his new job was, among other things, that he might have some time to DM a game for me (and others if we other peeps in the area). Back when I was a teacher I found that I could connect with some of the students other teachers weren't able to touch because of my knowledge of gaming. My knowledge of video games helped me with others, but the RPGers were the ones I felt like it really made a difference to that I knew and cared about their hobby. Sometimes I miss teaching and think I should see about teaching down here...but to be honest I'm terrified to go back in the classroom. What if, what happened before, happened again. Unlikely, but it was unlikely in the first place wasn't it? Well, this post is going downhill fast. I still can't think about it without having issues. So...so long, for now.