Random Thoughts: Story Telling Dungeon Crawling Kids in Diablo's Caves to Crit Mearls
(Told you I would not last a week) I was supposed to be at work, getting ready for the arrival of a new colleague in my team but my 6 year old son has developed a case of Chicken Pox. I’m therefore at home, playing some Raving Rabbits 2 with him and drawing some Manga [...]
GaryCon
Borrowed from The Evil DM’s blog (and adapted): World-Wide GaryCon this weekend! By now everyone I’m sure has heard of the passing of Gary Gygax. One of the best suggestions so far for a fitting tribute is GaryCon. Basically GaryCon is about gaming. This weekend take some time and play a game. Run a game [...]
Mini-Link: Non-RPG geekiness
Since I actually posted today’s article yesterday morning, here’s a very short something about my non-RPG interests. Like a lot of tabletop RPG aficionados, I like geeky stuff. My favorites are about technology, vintage video games, movies, cool TV series and doing stuff with kids. So far my blog list for those is rather limited. [...]
Wii Weeee!!… I finally got one…
Yeah, I got finally got one… Wifey went to a department store near here yesterday for a Wii and she was told to show up at opening on Saturday morning and hope that a few were delivered. So this morning, at 7h15, at -20 Celsius (that’s like -1000 F right? ) , I arrived in [...]
Mini-Links: Japanese Lupine Cubs
I’m sitting on a big announcement and I promised myself I’d only post it Sunday night. But my urge to post something is so strong! So here’s a few more links for you to look at… not all RPG related. When a hobby becomes an incredible opportunity This morning in my morning newspaper, there was [...]
Big Fluff, Small Crunch
I’m still working on the Big Eyes, Small Mouth-Pokemon game for my 5 year-old son. I also read Dante’s and Martin’s excellent post on Improvising. I’m taking notes here! I bought 2 starters of The Pokemon Trading figure Game. My son whips my butt on a consistent basis and he loves those spinning figurines. I [...]
New DMing Challenge: RPG Improv with my Son
I just finished reading my 5 year-old son’s bedtime story from a Pokemon pocket novella. When we were talking about the story after I could not help but notice how much he still loved Pokemon and the whole concept of being a young pocket monster trainer. This gave me an idea. I have wanted to [...]
