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I played that a couple of weeks ago, it's good fun and would fit well into Tabletop difficulty level and time frame for games.
I was the werewolf and managed to win by turning everyone else into werewolves, too. :D
New #Tabletop: Elder Sign (or, in which I have a tentacle party with Felicia Day)
The newest Tabletop features a really fun dice game set in the Arkham Horror universe called Elder Sign. Fantasy flight Games publishes an epic game called Arkham Horror that I just love. In the game, the players assume the role of Lovecraftian Pulp Investigators who are all working together to...
I only have the Android version of that game and while nicely made, I've given up on it because I never got even close to winning.
When I started watching the episode I though, "Hey, they actually aren't bad and this seems to be easier in real life" but then I saw you roll and was reminded on my failed adventures on my phone.
Note on the video: In the credits it says "Games provided by North Star Games" I assume this was a copy/paste error from Say Anything as it should say Fantasy Flight Games.
This bit of the credits in the description underneath the video is correct.
I think I've liked all the videos so far but just to make sure I'll go back and check.
New #Tabletop: Elder Sign (or, in which I have a tentacle party with Felicia Day)
The newest Tabletop features a really fun dice game set in the Arkham Horror universe called Elder Sign. Fantasy flight Games publishes an epic game called Arkham Horror that I just love. In the game, the players assume the role of Lovecraftian Pulp Investigators who are all working together to...
Well, acting is rather advanced and exceedingly more skilled version of roleplaying. For me, roleplaying is a release, a way of acting out fantasies, playing someone who gets away with things I personally couldn't and I would assume working as an actor is similar?
Answering a FAQ: "Why do you play so many evil characters lately?"
Every actor has a particular type they can play well, for some reason or another. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with who we are in real life, but it's just what we do well. Example: Travolta is amazing as the Lovable Loser. When he's in Welcome Back Kotter and Saturday Night Fever i...
Nice! But will she pass muster with Watson? ;o)
Please meet the newest member of Team Wheaton
We were introduced last week at the Pasadena Humane Society, when Anne and I were there for a tour of the new facility WWdN readers helped raise the funds to build. We were standing in the lobby, talking about how much we love Seamus, when a worker walked in with this puppy. She had the exact ...
You have the best pets!
Has the new puppy moved in yet or are you waiting until after GenCon and Anne has recovered?
In which my wife is entertained by our pets, and I am amused.
Anne had minor ankle surgery last week, so she's been at home since Friday, recovering. Our pets are all incredibly excited that she's been a captive audience for them; both cats and both dogs have happily spent entire days on our bed with her. Yesterday, our cat Watson got himself all worked up...
Nice! Just a shame you have to bleep everything. :/
I'll be at a small RPG and board game convention in Cambridge(UK) this weekend and hope to pick up a few new ones there. Oh, and to get a few signed pieces by Phil and Kaja Foglio, of course. :)
New Tabletop! Say Anything with Matt Mira, Jonah Ray, and Josh Cagan!
Casual party games are a great infection vector for introducing tabletop gaming to our non-gaming friends. For experienced players, they're also fantastic palate cleansers between games of Puerto Rico and Power Grid. This week's new Tabletop is a really fun, quick, easy, and profoundly silly par...
Thank you for writing them. I think it's important to record memories while you can still remember them so you can go back years later. I still regret not having written down any of the wartime (WWII) memories my maternal grandfather and my paternal grandmother used to tell.
Summer memories never fade away
It’s been so hot the last couple of days, I haven’t gone outside for more than a few minutes until the sun’s gone down, and even then walking down the middle of the street still feels like a furnace. Trading the blazing heat of a parking lot for the cool, dry air conditioning of a store is bliss...
Alison's dead eyes will be one of my most favourite things on the web for a long time. :D
The newest #Tabletop is a real #Fiasco!
The newest episode of Tabletop is Fiasco, my absolute favorite storytelling RPG of all time. Fiasco is "a game about ordinary people with powerful ambition and poor impulse control. There will be big dreams and flawed execution. It won’t go well for them, to put it mildly, and in the end it wil...
Being German, I don't know Highlights but there were similar magazines when I was a kid and I hated it when they were defaced, too. Well pointed out and well done to Highlights for picking up on it in this fantastic way.
in which I am an indirect contributor to Highlights for Children
In february, I wrote about the time that Anne and I discussed Highlights for Children at great length: "You know what I always hated about Highlights?" Anne said, "some idiot kid had always circled the hidden pictures." "Seriously!" I said, "fuck that kid, man. That kid's a dick." "And what kin...
You have the most awesome friends. :D
When am I?
On Saturday, I texted my friend Molly: If you're here tomorrow, come over to my house for games and beer. She texted back: What time? Can Chris come? I replied: 6pm. Chris is always welcome at the Wheaton Secret Headquarters! Yesterday, while we were at my friend's house for his birthday dinner,...
Hehe.
In which Anne and I make beer
I got into bed around 2300 last night. Anne followed a few minutes later, and was asleep a few minutes after that. I stayed awake reading until about 130, which is something I’ve been doing the last couple of weeks. I can’t fall asleep before 130, no matter how hard I try, so rather than fight i...
Do you take fort building lessons from your cats? :o)
In which Anne and I make beer
I got into bed around 2300 last night. Anne followed a few minutes later, and was asleep a few minutes after that. I stayed awake reading until about 130, which is something I’ve been doing the last couple of weeks. I can’t fall asleep before 130, no matter how hard I try, so rather than fight i...
It's so much better on tap!
In which Anne and I make beer
I got into bed around 2300 last night. Anne followed a few minutes later, and was asleep a few minutes after that. I stayed awake reading until about 130, which is something I’ve been doing the last couple of weeks. I can’t fall asleep before 130, no matter how hard I try, so rather than fight i...
*do you read*, obviously. #TypingFail :(
In which Anne and I make beer
I got into bed around 2300 last night. Anne followed a few minutes later, and was asleep a few minutes after that. I stayed awake reading until about 130, which is something I’ve been doing the last couple of weeks. I can’t fall asleep before 130, no matter how hard I try, so rather than fight i...
How to you read in bed without disturbing Anne with the light? Even an iPad screen gives off a lot of light in a dark room.
I know very little about making beer and even if I had the space, I wouldn't have the patience or discipline to make my own homebrew but I sure love drinking beer. :o)
In which Anne and I make beer
I got into bed around 2300 last night. Anne followed a few minutes later, and was asleep a few minutes after that. I stayed awake reading until about 130, which is something I’ve been doing the last couple of weeks. I can’t fall asleep before 130, no matter how hard I try, so rather than fight i...
Servus from a fellow Franconian! :) (in exile in the UK, though)
Undoubtedly we make the best beer in the world, although I had some rather decent beers over here, too. A traditional English ale is probably closest to Franconian beer I've had.
In which Anne and I make beer
I got into bed around 2300 last night. Anne followed a few minutes later, and was asleep a few minutes after that. I stayed awake reading until about 130, which is something I’ve been doing the last couple of weeks. I can’t fall asleep before 130, no matter how hard I try, so rather than fight i...
I thought I had done that, seems to have reset itself. Thanks for the reminder.
Google is doing it wrong. Again.
I'm putting this update at the top of this post as well as at the bottom, so nobody misses it: Updated: It appears that Google engineers are actively working on a way to fix this thing, and that it may not have been intentional. I sincerely hope that that's the case, and will just point out that...
First of all, awesome, that's a fantastic load of money (my contribution was a measly $5 but I'm equally as proud of it as you).
If I was you I wouldn't let Carreon anywhere near my ass.
I wouldn't want to be in the same room with him, let alone with my trousers down.
I'm proud to be $100 of $211,000, and Charles Carreon can go fuck himself sideways.
The Oatmeal writes: Operation BearLove Good, Cancer Bad ended early this morning with total funds raised at $220,024.00 — almost exactly 11 times the original goal of $20k. IndieGoGo takes 4%, so that puts thetotal money going to charity at $211,223.04. I’ve been trying very hard not to post ab...
If it wasn't for Hangouts (which I use for roleplaying with friends in Germany and Switzerland with me being in the UK), I'd given up on G+. I first thought it would be a good and possibly less sneakily invasive equivalent to facebook but not enough of my friends use it to make it worthwhile as a permanent social networking tool. I constantly get things in my timeline I don't want and never subscribed to (like What's hot or bloody Par*s H*lton). I haven't been on it yet today so I've missed the events thing.
Google is doing it wrong. Again.
I'm putting this update at the top of this post as well as at the bottom, so nobody misses it: Updated: It appears that Google engineers are actively working on a way to fix this thing, and that it may not have been intentional. I sincerely hope that that's the case, and will just point out that...
An excellent mix of things that made my walk home from work a lot more enjoyable, thank you.
*Ding*
I recently downloaded Cards Against Humanity after seeing various people who had been to Origins rave about it and hope to play it at a party soon. I bet we'll come with some new card ideas, too, especially UK based ones.
Pleasae keep the RFBs (with show notes) coming if your schedule allows.
Radio Free Burrito: Episode Thirty-Three
Holy Crap it's time for a new episode of Radio Free Burrito! Today, I talked about some games I've been playing, rambled a little (a lot) and talked a bit about comic books and beer. It's a stream of consciousness RFB, so you probably want to skip this one. If you're still thinking about listen...
Your pets are awesome and you really bring them to life by writing about them. In that photo Riley looks like the happiest dog alive. :o)
The Eternal Struggle
So this happened last night. I told the tale in pictures and captions on Twitter, and I'm putting it here for the ages. For science. You monster. Hey, Seamus, you're in my spot. Me: Seamus, move! Seamus: But I'm watching Colbert Report! Me: Seamus won't move. Riley: Well, duh. He's wa...
It's almost too obvious but I'm glad Wil did it, too. :o)
on the bottling of my Hefewheaton
I bottled Wheaton's Own HefeWheaton yesterday. Here are some notes I made: Lost about a gallon to trub. Not sure how that happened. I haven’t lost that much in a long time. Much more pale than I wanted. I was going for 10 SRM, but it’s closer to 5 SRM. Too early to know, but I don’t get any clo...
You're mixing things up a bit. What they used on Tabletop is the Deluxe version of the card game which comes with the counter board and pawns: http://www.worldofmunchkin.com/deluxe/
The Munchkin board game is called Munchkin Quest and a different game: http://www.worldofmunchkin.com/munchkinquest/
In which we play Munchkin on Tabletop with Steve Jackson
If you've been reading my blog for a few years, you may remember when I played Munchkin with my kids in 2008: I'm going to speak in geek to people who have played Munchkin: Neither of the kids would help me, and I kept getting the Truly Obnoxious Curse, so I was having a hard time gaining level...
It really is a beautiful game.
Memories of the Phoenix Comicon 2012
In about 22 hours, I leave for Origins Game Fair in Ohio. I've wanted to go to this convention since I was in high school, and I'm really excited to finally be attending. Felicia and I are doing a bunch of TableTop stuff, and the organizers have even set aside time in our busy schedules for some...
And now my friends from Cubicle 7 just tweeted a photo of you and Felicia checking out The One Ring RPG at Origins.
Memories of the Phoenix Comicon 2012
In about 22 hours, I leave for Origins Game Fair in Ohio. I've wanted to go to this convention since I was in high school, and I'm really excited to finally be attending. Felicia and I are doing a bunch of TableTop stuff, and the organizers have even set aside time in our busy schedules for some...
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