4th

Not as many kids as last year but we had a pretty good barbecue on fourth. Burgers and dogs, beer, broke out the kiddie pools; all-around good time.

Busy busy busy

June flew by and it doesn't look like July's going to go any slower. Julie and the kids got into town last night, so did Kenny and Gail. They will all, minus Julie plus Carrie's parents, be in town till mid next week when we take off and head up to Colorado on another road trip. There're some other tentative plans between that and GenCon and then, bam! end of summer.

Poo Quest

Burrito Quest has once again fallen into disrepair. Not that we've failed, per se, but we're a month behind on burritos, given our self-imposed schedule, and just as far behind on me getting a recording out. Also, I think our last burrito may get disqualified on the grounds that they fucked up and got some meat in it from the grill when they prepared it. Need to step this shit up.

Sage-Starter

Sage's kickstarter for dungeon world closed out just around $82,000. That's pretty badass. In related news, he and Sarah got married this weekend. Mom watched the kids while Carrie and I went up to Silver City for the wedding; got to see Isaac and Jenny, Paul and Shannon. Lovely ceremony followed by a nice dinner, good times hanging out with good friends. After everyone was pretty tired but we managed to head out to a club nonetheless. Rounded out the weekend away with a nice breakfast with Isaac and Jenny, and Ben and Amy. Jackassing around with Isaac this weekend makes me realize how much I miss that guy. Note: his unicorn mask birthday present in the attached picture.

Dungeons Anonymous

I have a problem. The Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG has all sorts of fun tables and charts and weird gameplay going on, so it's not like I had much of a choice. Also for page count the cost was pretty reasonable. And all the pictures of bell–bottomed wizards with sick belt buckles just added to the pot. My rationalization knows no bounds. I think I got a total of 10 pages into the PDF before I ordered the damn thing.

Ye Olde Gayme

The LotFP turned ACKS game died a swift death last Friday night, culminating in a total party kill. A couple things likely promoted us deciding not to continue on with new characters. One was a disconnect between my desire to focus on running a strictly old school game and what the players likely were interested in playing. The other was me not having the time outside of play to learn the rules to the degree that my desire for rules accuracy necessitated. We had a good time when we focused on the game, I think, but the frequent moments when I turned to the book to make sure we got the rules right got in the way of the overall enjoyment. For me, and I assume for everyone else. I still want to do some old school stuff but I think me running it, beyond a one-shot maybe, will have to wait until I have the free time to get after it the way I want to.

Impending travel to Carl-Bad caused me to write up some quick rules for a Halo game. And before the comments about free time pop up, it was generally done during downtime at work. The rules feel like a mashup, maybe, of Lady Blackbird and Dungeon Squad. We'll see if Ross and I can fit in some time to try them out.

Man Date Movie Night

Alex and I; Cabin in the Woods. One probable gauge of our enjoyment of this move was the amount of snarky comments made during the show. These were considerably less than with
WotT. Pretty good movie overall. And the unicorn cracked me up. Sharing the theater with only a couple of other dudes, just the way I like it.