I’m back after another long hiatus of the
blog. As I went through some of my favorite blogs I noticed I’m not the only
one who has had a dearth of posts in the past while. Life has a way of sweeping
you up and putting blogging on low priority. Not to mention that it’s difficult
to write new and interesting content. I don’t want to be one of those blogs
that just rehashes what everyone else is saying.
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| Shadows Over Innistrad is a great expansion! |
What have I been doing game wise? First, on
the RPG front I have done nothing for as long as I can remember. I have the 5e
PH but I haven’t even really done anything with it. I’ve still been playing Magic: The Gathering quite a bit. The
new Shadows Over Innistrad set has
been pretty awesome. I managed to win first place at the pre-release tournament
at my friendly neighbourhood game store! Magic has been my go to game since it
is fast to play and finding a group of players is easy.
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| Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower |
My local game store is also big fans of
Warhammer. I’ve tried a few times now to get into miniature war games. I’ve picked
up the start of a fantasy orcs and goblins army, and 40k Blood Angels. I have
yet to play any actual games with them yet which is a bit frustrating. Lastly I
picked up two Games Workshop board games. Deathwatch
Overkill and Warhammer Quest: Silver
Tower. I’m very excited to get those put together and get some play time
in. I’m not making any promises here, but I hope to write up a review of these
games when time permits.
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| Deathwatch: Overkill |
Finally, on the reading front I just
finished rereading the first Dragonlance
novel, Dragons of Autumn Twilight and
I’ve now started on Brian Sanderson’s epic fantasy series The Way of Kings. Dragons of
Autumn Twilight was a fun read. It’s not without its faults but I still
enjoyed it. I don’t really understand what people have against Dragonlance. I think over the years, now
having more distance from RPGs has put a few things in perspective for me. I no
longer really understand the polarized nature of gamers. That is to say that as
I’ve browsed various forums I’ve noticed this tendency for gamers to really
come down hard on settings or games that they think suck. I don’t really see it
as a healthy thing for the nerd community. But that’s probably a blog entry for
another day. The short of it, be kind to each other fellow gamers.
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| Why all the hate? |
As for Sandersons’s Way of Kings. Holy Shit. This is a great read. I can see how
Sanderson was chosen to finish Jordan’s Wheel
of Time series. The dude can write. His worlds are interesting, though the
magic in this world has elements similar to his Mistborn series. I think that you could probably make many comparisons
to the Way of Kings and the Mistborn series, yet each is also
distinct and entertaining in it’s own way. Either way the book has been
excellent and I highly recommend it.
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| Books 1 & 2 of The Stormlight Archive, do yourself a favour and read it. |
