Been so slammed at work, I'm out of the loop on regular life and all the things that make living worthwhile.  I'm forgetting the taste of strawberries...

As for Kickstarter, that is news to me.  They did try a different game earlier, but it got pulled due to questionable content.  Prudes...

mmm... hentacle...

The game was a card taking game with a really dull mechanic.  So if anything, it deserved to get pulled for bad design.  But content?  People, this is the internet!

| Castles of Burgundy

Found a great new Eurogame that my wife and I have been greatly enjoying, The Castles of Burgundy. You're princes trying to build the most fancy estate. You each get a player board that represents your estate and there's a central board where everyone is acquiring buildings and other tiles to bring to their land. Each turn your roll 2d6 and that determines what actions you can take . Pretty basic stuff but you have a lot of different ways to plot for victory points. Similar mellow vibe as something like Kingom Builder although its denser. There's some iconography to get familiar with.

Conan

Screw the haters, I really liked the Conan remake from last year. It got horrible reviews but it's a gory blast. Khal Drogo is great and the action is really good. It's fucking CONAN! I don't know  what they expected. Much more interesting than the Scorpion King flicks or the Pirates of the Caribeeans.

Jacket askers

Is hackmasters auto corrected. What up with the online gamin?!

| Free RPGz

KenzerCo has made HackMaster Basic available for free! Definitely worth checking out -- this is the game that the Knights of the Dinner Table play.

I definitely hope to play this one sometime. Dungeon Crawl Classics is sort of the over-the-top version of Basic D&D, HackMaster is the over-the-top version of AD&D 1st ed. Both good things in my opinion.

Sorry to bum you out, Rude.

These awesome Kickstarters for minis just keep coming:

An enormous shitload of Reaper minis for $100.

| Minefold

Rood asked how do u even play in Minefold Minecraft servers, here's how:

 - Add the following server to your multiplayer servers:  theendoftheworld.biggdork.minefold.com
 - Profit!

End of the World Update:  I have located the closest Stronghold, built a lit road to the Stronghold right between the cow-slaughter-for-leather-for-books-for-bookshelves-for-enchantment pen and the Nethergate.  I found The End portal and have one of, I believe, 12 slots filled with Eyes of Ender.  Once all 12 are filled, the portal should open and we should be able to dance with the Enderdragon!

Bastard! :)

well, in that case, I think it's time to retire in summoner wars.  =D

| SNL Celebrity Jeopardy

Here is a consolidated list of all the SNL Celebrity Jeopardy skits. You're welcome, Buck Futters.

I agree that SW is better than HA, in fact I think SW is the best multi game for iOS. Compared with HA you do more in a turn, so the game takes overall fewer turns while still giving you as many choices. And deckbuilding is cool.

But, I have to disagree with your blanket statement that turtling is the only win condition in HA. If you recall, we played, like, three games. In the third I started exploring anti-turtle techniques that I think were starting to work pretty well, and then you "quit to preserve your winning record." Bastard! :) So I think the real winning strategy is"quit while you're ahead." :)

Paging All Pumpkins

All right man, fess up, how much have you pumped into this Kickstarter?

| Heros Acad vs SW

Out of the both I'd say SW is the hotter apple pie.  But then HA is just a psuedo game designed for rugrats with Ios and unused brain waves.   The best thing about SW is that the game doesn't allow you to camp for too long, as it doesn't give you any incremental incentive to wait too long.  There's also ways where the opponent can goad you in attacking.   Not to say there are still times where playing "defensively" does come into play but generally if you are the stronger side, you will be inclined to attack.  In HA, it was all turtle even if you have superior numbers.

Jael and I had an awesome game today - his Fallen Kingdom vs my Cloaks. He pulled out the win but it was very close. The two main things going on were we had walls across the whole map except for one open space at the end. He was in a corner and I was pressing with a champion and commons but his summoner kept pulling off that "greater raise" skill which lets him summon 3 commons from his discard pile. So eventually I was worn down and it came down to our summoners in a shootout with me having 1 hp and him 2 I think - he got me first. Cloaks are great - it seems like they can be pretty versatile, so I'm having fun trying to figure out their different strengths and weaknesses. Fallen Kingdom did great against them. I've also got my ass kicked by goblins pretty hard. After I burn out the Cloaks, I'm probably gonna jump back to Phoenix Elves and try to get good with them. I love their "precise" events - those put on a champion can be BRUTAR.

You know, I'll bet you they'll make an adaptation to that movie if you finish your turn and not forfiet the game due to inactivity.    There's only a few turns left at most, cuz your dwarf  or my summoner is gonna get whacked this round

| The Great Gatsby

You know which novel is screaming for a modern-day film adaptation in 3D, no less?  That's right, The Great Gatsby.

I really hope there's a studio out there that recognizes this tremendous need and gives the American people what they are (unknowingly) screaming for.

PS 9/1 is Whatstodaybordayitslabor Day weekend - still up for some gaming travels, or do you have other plans?

Once I got the iPad, my regular computer use has fallen off big time. I get on their to pay bills and occasionally blog, but haven't touched Steam or any of my old computer stuff in ages! Also, having a sweet pool in crazy hot weather is too much fun. Most of my free time during my "week" is spent swimming before I have to sleep for work. Watch out for those mother fucking spiders! They got gills.

8/25 = Bad
9/1 = Good

I like my nuts, and besides I will be out of town 8/25 anyway.

ja -El, I like that you have grades of wood to describe your morning erections. Makes me giddy, "no-homo".

Shop-vac. Good thing, eLzar white listed you. Otherwise you would be the wrong color for our elite group of Minecrafters. Speaking of Minecraftiness, eLzar and I dug up enough Blaze Rod and eLzar murdered enough Enderman to make Eye of Ender. Two steps closer to The End.

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