Recent content by Chairman7w

Motioning to my party to sit tight - I slink back into the nearest pool of shadow, pull my cloak up over my head and begin a slow, crouching reconnoiter of the illuminated area in the back...

My son and his friends have talked me into running a one-shot adventure for them, the Friday night after Thanksgiving. They want to be 10th level (we're playing Pathfinder), and will have a standard party makeup. I'm drawing a blank creatively and looking for some help with ideas. Thanks in...

Just whatever you do, do NOT have ship-to-ship combat!!! (Meaning, on a tactical scale, with cannons, wind, turning, etc). Just narrate it all as DM ("The ships rise and fall over the crests of the waves, and amidst the crashing BOOM of the cannon, chain and shot rip into the rails and decks...

Wow. Just played a mission last night in Assassin's Creed 3 that made me stop just to stare awestruck at the graphics. I was scaling the outer wall of a Seaside Fort, with the sun setting behind me over the sea. It was visually stunning. A real graphic highlight of my Looooooonng time gaming...

Love, love, love me some David Gemmell!!

Reading "Total Recall", the Arnold Schwarzeggar autobiography. It's fascinating. What an amazing, inspiring guy. Yeah, I know most people will just point to his infidelity (and he's gotta own that), but I'm willing to look past that at all the amazing stuff he accomplished. I really admire...

I think Free to Play is a brilliant model, and have considered picking up The Old Republic, just because it IS FTP. I don't thjnk it's going anywhere any time soon. Slowing down maybe, but not going any where. And there'll be some cool innovations to bring out more players, too, in the future.

I don't understand the hate. I'm not an MMO guy myself, but it doesn't bother me that they exist. I respect your right not to like it, we all have different tastes. But just cause *you* don't like to play something, why would you wish the entire genre was gone? If you don't like it, don't...

About halfway through "Garden of the Beasts" (which is great) - and I just picked up "Spies Against Armageddon", about Israeli special forces & espionage over the years. I heard the author on talk radio yesterday talking about it, and it was an instant buy. It sounded amazing - can't wait to...

Awesome!! First day buy for me, for sure!

If you liked that, I bet you would LOVE the Troy Trilogy from David Gemmell. A true masterpiece, as his swan song. He died after book 2 was released - his wife (who was also his editor) finished up book 3 for him, and you could never tell. It flows beautifully. A "re-telling" of the Trojan...

Hey Bulgrit, long time no talk! I checked out your blog - great job man! I have a six-pack too, it's just hidden behind my belly! LOL It's funny, I am in great shape, and have a great core, but just not willing to invest the discipline (eating) to lose that last bit around my gut, and on my...

Finished "If a Pirate I Must Be: the Story of Bartholamew Roberts, the Greatest Pirate of the Golden Age". It was very cool. We've heard so much folklore and near mythology about pirates, it was extremely interesting learning about "real" pirates. Basically, it was really cool to be a pirate...

I heard Xenoblade Chronicles was excellent, too. Wish I had a Wii just for that.

I'm actually considering picking up an Xbox 360 just to play Witcher 2. I think you're WAY too critical of Skyrim to call the dialogue and story terrible. I respect your opinion, but it sounds like you're being a bit overly dramatic. Not GREAT? Not to your liking? Not perfect? All fair...