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I’m taking part in the essay contest at the D&D with Porn Stars site.

Link and you can vote and stuff here.  Essays are ANONYMOUS so you won’t know any that are mine but you’ll be able to tell if they are sorta shitty but don’t totally suck.

I got my Zak s saved D&D tshirt which is ridiculous.  going to wear it most of the rest of the con.

Blood Rage was there but there was a huge line to get it and fuck I kickstarted it and I don’t want to pay twice!  it looks great and I saw Eric Lang who is a black dude that just put out maybe the best Viking game!

Now I am at the ram drinking and listening to Matt and steve talk about dream quest.  it’s too bad the dream quest guy got sucked into the worthless hearth stone game.

so on my phone so no pics but coming soon.

 

A question asked recently in a certain region of the internet and I wanted to capture responses before it went away for good.

The fat people.
All the fucking fat people.
Morbidly obese? Have I got a genre for you!

Near future, because it attracts the intersection of realism spergs and powergaming shits.

I really wish I could repeatedly beat the hell out of whoever started the whole “Tesla is literally science Jesus” bullshit

FUCK victorian england aesthetics.

It’d be the same as putting any 50 people on a desert island. They’re gonna fuck. Suddenly you’re not competing against the other 50000 guys in your city. You’re competing against that dozen guys over there, because you’re only kinda fat, and Susy doesn’t like any of the REALLY fat guys.

I walked into a game store that I haven’t been in for many many years, if ever (I can barely remember) and it was a religious experience.  This was a real game store with new board games that were vastly outnumbered by old ones of every kind you can imagine.  I perused the shelves and among the stacks found a copy of Warrior Knights: Crown and Glory expansion, which has been out of print since 2009.  I haven’t been able to find it for a decent price for years.  I picked it up for retail at 20$, but it goes for $70-120 still in the shrink online.   Sweet right? But the problem is, I don’t like the Fantasy Flight version of Warrior Knights very much. Both times playing it was a bit of a chore– like a bad version of Shogun or Wallenstein.   However, from what online nerds say, the expansion is essential to making the game good and the base game should never be played with out it.  I’m at a bit of an impasse.  With similar titles that I know play well, like Fief and even Game of Thrones (not a very good game, but easy to pull out because people know the backstory), Warrior Knights would be tough to get on the table.  What’s more I have the old ’87 Games Workshop version to boot!  So sell it, or keep it in the shrink– or play the fucker?

The point of this post is to note what an actual game store should be like.  Front face has new stuff everywhere, this is the stuff that will flow through the store like MTG and Dead of Winter and various 7 Wonders and Catan expansions with whatever RPG’s are hot enough to be on the shelves (likely soon dominated by 5th Edition based on feedback), but I see no reason to have a large area for old ass games, RPG’s and general gaming crap to sell, and to have a trading system for gamers to get rid of their old stuff.  Because game stores usually do not occupy prime commercial real estate, as they are destination stores that people will go out of their way to go to, the pressure that everything on the shelves has to flow out of the store within a month can’t be too high?

While focusing more on old stuff, this place I was at today is the type of store Napoleon’s down in Milwaukee used to be like.  They had an area in the store where they would place stuff that they had bought from people or traded, and sold them at fair or low prices.  Checking that every few weeks was nearly always a gold mine.  For example, I got an entire first edition wood elf blood bowl team for 15$.  I picked up a stack of old modules for basic D&D for a song as well.  Store was happy, they made cash, I was happy as I got something not easily found. This is good.