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I went home to visit Mom and Dad for Mother’s Day last weekend.  Spent Saturday with Dad building a stand for my Guitar Hero and Rock Band controllers.  It turned out pretty well… I’ll get some pics up soon.

Dad treated the family to dinner at Country House in Geneva.  For most, it was the first time they had seen my newly shaven head.  I tried to get some reaction shots with my camera phone.

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Yay! Yesterday I ordered some Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 1st edition books off of eBay, and they arrived in the mail today. I got a Dungeon Master’s Guide, Monster Manual, Player’s Handbook, and a few old Dragon magazines and adventure modules. All in good condition. One of these days I’ll actually run a session or two. Should be fun.

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Yay! I got a Wii yesterday!

I was at Target, and what did I see in the video games section but a Nintendo Wii and a copy of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. I saw them, they saw me… it was love at first sight. We ran towards each other and embraced. I paid for our “date”, and we went home so I could caress her pearly white skin. My TV is happy to have some more hi-def company, and I’m happy to have something new and fun to hold in my hand.

My Wii friend code is 6915 4247 0157 0866. If you have a system, feel free to add me as a friend. Just make sure you leave your wii code on here so I can add you too!

So, I’ve been playing Final Fantasy X for the past couple weeks. I’ve put about 55 hours into it now. Just got access to the airship last night. At this point, I’m making a pledge to myself to complete as many side quests as I can before I finish the game. So I need to get every legendary weapon, capture 10 of every monster in the game for the monster arena, and get every aeon in the game, just to name a few. We’ll see how long it takes me.

When it’s finished, I’ll post some screenshots on here.

So, I’ve been playing Dungeons & Dragons for many years now. I’ve always been a little afraid of being the DM. Mostly just because I was afraid of working in a pre-existing campaign setting that I didn’t know enough about. Forgotten Realms, Grayhawk, you name it, most campaign settings have a lot of history to them, and that’s a lot for me to commit to learning and working with.

I bought the varient handbook “Arcana Unearthed” a few years back, and since then have wanted to try playing a game in the Diamond Throne setting. The DM I’ve been playing with for a while needed a break, so I decided to run an Arcana game. Picked up a few more books for the setting:

• Arcana Evolved - an updated and expanded “Directors Edition” of Arcana Unearthed
• Spell Treasury - a few hundred extra spells for the setting
• Legacy of the Dragons - a bestiary for the Diamond Throne
• Ruins of Intrigue - a city sourcebook

The cool thing about this setting is that, besides the new rules, there’s only a basic outline of world history, a couple maps, and a few names and places. Only about 30 pages of actual setting content. This leaves a lot of room for me to do my own thing with the setting, and makes very little that someone else created that I need to remember, while still giving me somewhere to start from.

I started the game a week ago, and it’s starting to go well. I hope I can work with this for a while.