Mushroom Clouds and Schooly Skies

 I realize it’s Tuesday, but I didn’t post yesterday… or anything in the last 3 weeks, so here we go. Anyway, fear not, because I am still alive and kicking, and the content will be coming very soon to a computer monitor near you. Just a few updates though. It’s now August 17, which means that I started school again yesterday, and that I failed my summer gaming challenge. Just because I failed though, doesn’t mean that I won’t continue working on it. In fact, I’m working my way through Fallout 3 right now.

With school comes great responsibility, but this blog will still function normally… better actually. Last Monday I started a lifestyle change. I started eating right and exercising. I know right? I won’t be a preacher, so that’s all I’m going to say with that. However, I also made the commitment to regularly update my blog. So, starting today you can expect updates every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. This was supposed to take effect last week, but I got side tracked with courting a lass.

In tabletop news, I won’t be DMing a Deathwatch campaign right now, because two of my would be players haven’t read the rules yet. I still really want to play Deathwatch, but that looks to be difficult currently. In place of that, I will be DMing a D&D campaign instead. My friend, Kurt, has been DMing our main campaign, as well as the side campaign, and really wants to play a character. He plays a character in our side campaign, but he can’t really do anything without undermining his DM stuff. To thank him for all of his hard work, I’ll be taking over DM duties for a side campaign of my own design once the current one is finished. This will most likely happen next week, and I’ve already started fleshing out the campaign. I’m aiming for a light-hearted tone with my campaign. I really only want it to be half-serious, and more on the comedy side. I plan to fill it with many pop culture references, taking most of my inspiration from video games and movies.

Speaking of movies, if you haven’t seen Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World yet, go do that. Right now! What? You’re still reading this? GO SEE THE DAMN MOVIE!

Alan Wake and the Wookiee + News

So in case you don’t follow my Twitter account, I was on vacation last week, which is why there was a lack of content on the site. I enjoyed a long week at a cabin in Strawberry, CA. So yea, I pretty much did the Alan Wake thing. I was expecting peace and quiet, but my family brought me up there to continue my writing. Things got really weird as my family was kidnapped by evil creatures I had created in a manuscript that I don’t remember writing, and I had to chase after them through my dreams armed with a flashlight… Obviously, I’m kidding, but the whole time I was up there, I couldn’t stop thinking about Alan Wake since the surrounding environment was very similar: the cabin, the lake, the forest. It apparently also looked like another famous setting according to my friend David, “It looks just like Endor up here!” In response, the South Park line, “Why don’t you go back to Endor, you stupid Wookiee!” “Wookiees don’t live on Endor!” became a common staple of awesome randomness. Anyway, I’m back now, and site operations will continue as normal.

In tabletop news, I think it’s safe to say that RPGs have become a new found love of mine, and is a hobby that is definitely here to stay. I got back from vacation Friday afternoon, and already started playing D&D that night and continued on all weekend up, racking up a total of 22 hours played just for the weekend (write ups coming soon). Speaking of write ups though, I’ve made the decision to switch to a summary format, because writing in story mode is just too time consuming. For our main campaign, the write up is about 5 sessions behind, and there’d just be no way for me to catch up unless I committed a whole week to nothing but writing, which like I said, I don’t have time for with all of my projects going on.

So, side campaign write ups will be coming soon, they’re already in progress. They aren’t as detailed as the main campaign one will be, since our characters background and stuff aren’t as well fleshed out. As mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I’ll be the Game Master for an upcoming Deathwatch campaign. I think I’m going to have to delay the start time another week though. I sent all of my players a PDF of the rules, but one of them had problems opening it while I was on vacation. So to give him more time to read, I’ll just delay.

I’ve also started a fitness project today, getting into shape, but a more formal announcement for that is in the works. More video game reviews are in the pipeline, to spice up the variety of gaming content. You know what, just more content in general is coming. So, stay tuned, and happy gaming!