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Reflecting on a year of being the family Dungeon Master
About a year ago, I wrote a blog post about how my kids got themselves (and, by extension, me) into Dungeons and Dragons. I wanted to reflect on how far I’ve come since then and where I might go in the near future. Starting off with a quick recap of the linked blog post, my…
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The Political Reading of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
This morning I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts, Decoder Ring. The most recent episode had a very interesting title: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie…Will he want a Welfare check? I don’t remember this book from my childhood, but I do remember reading this one (and others in the series) to…
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Podcasts I’m Listening to In 2024
I’m a bit late to updating the list this year. There aren’t too many new entries, but there are a few changes. Politics 5-4 Pod – Official Description:5-4 is a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks. It’s a progressive and occasionally profane take on the ideological battles at the heart of the Court’s most important…
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Review: Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros My rating: 4 of 5 stars When I saw that this book topped the lists for most checked out book in 2023 in multiple library systems my curiosity was piqued. But it was this episode of Our Opinions are Correct that pushed me over the edge into getting this book.…
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Review: Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons: Deluxe Edition
Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons: Deluxe Edition by Patrick Rothfuss My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book is the definition of a niche product. The only people I think would enjoy this are the intersection in the Venn diagram of D&D fans and Rick and Morty fans. I know I’ve been watching…
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Review: Fault Tolerance (Chilling Effect, #3)
Fault Tolerance by Valerie Valdes My rating: 4 of 5 stars Valerie Valdes continues the Gen X/Millenial pastiche that the Chilling Effect in this third, and final, entry. A few of the references across the trilogy:– Voltron– Portal (from previous books)– Smash Bros (crash sisters)– Death Star-like weapon– Solid snake reference?– Transformers– Pokemon (in previous…
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Review: Wrath of Empire
Wrath of Empire by Brian McClellan My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’m usually not a fan of the middle books in planned trilogies. They often can’t resolve anything because most trilogies are just one gigantic book split into three. While that’s also somewhat true in this book, McClellan has done a great job giving…
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Humblewood Session 01
Last weekend I decided to try the Humblewood D&D campaign setting with the kids. For the past year (give or take) we’ve had a lot of fun playing DnD Adventure Club campaigns. Our one major foray in to regular D&D, Dragons of Stormreck Isle, was a failure. I think there were a few reasons for…
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This Weekend’s D&D Moments
This weekend we finished The Wild Trilogy from DnD Adventure Club. The first challenge involved sneaking around an Owlbear. The kids asked about their options and I noted that in addition to sneaking, they could try and distract it. Sam’s dwarf, Grumpy McGrumbles, has a cooking hobby, so he took hits pots and pans and…
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Humble Bundle finally has a GOG bundle!
After all these years, there’s finally a Humble Bundle that redeems keys to GOG! I don’t have anything against Steam, per se, but I always hated the lack of diversity of locations to redeem your keys. I’m hoping this eventually means that games sold on Humble Bundle through their store (ie not part of a…
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Bite-Sized TTRPG Adventures
I’ve written a lot about DnD Adventure Club, including my last two posts. Today while I was looking at the Pathfinder Humble Bundle, I went to the Pathfinder website to see if they had a page listing differences (since Pathfinder started as a fork of D&D 3.5). I found this page – Adventure Paths. It…
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A little more on this weekend’s D&D game
Scarlett was inspired by my previous post and made an animatic-style drawing of some of her favorite moments from the campaign. The top panel is the party questioning the guards. (The ninja-looking character is Sasha, the character that Scarlett plays) The next panel is Grumpy using intimidation to question a gnoll. The middle panel is…
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