I'm thinking of trying to paint some of the plastic minis I have from the D&D boardgames. I already have a ton of these things, so that cost is null, just have to worry about getting some starter paints and tools. Any pitfalls to painting plastic vs lead (the kind I had painted last, 15 years ago, ha)?

Also, if there's some killer starter set (paint and brushes) someone knows about, throw a brother a link!

Is it possible to have our G+ stream in the right sidebar instead of our twitter feed? Our G+ stuff has been pretty active and awesome, but I think some AT dudes still don't use it/check it.

E: Nice GenCon pics Enron!

After you guys have chillaxed and post-processed your trip, can't wait to hear how it all went! The live stream was pretty sweet. I can't believe how many people there seemed to be in some of those shots! Yikes!

I just ate SO much watermelon!

| And... I'm spent

Just got through our epic tour of the gaming hall... holy crap! We were in there about 3 hrs and there was plenty we didn't get much of a look at. I spent a mint at the FFG and Privateer booths, Pump got a lot of random minis, and Enron has firmly established that he's in the CDs side of the tapes/CDs divide, with his eyes on some sweet papercraft terrain. Now we're off to wander the mean streets in search of Chil-fil-A!

Just got our badges! Line was a total shit-show, two hours from where we got in. Pity the people after us... gotta be about three hours now.

Let the impulse shopping begin!

| gEN cON

Have fun at Gen Con, gang! Can't wait to see pics and here how it went!

People already have it and it's getting pretty favorable reviews. It's basically a deck building game ala Dominion or Thunderborst, but you're building your dice bag. THEN, you pull from your bag to fight or whatever you do. It's supposed to play fast, like 30 mins, but if you're not into dice-luck, it might bum you out. I guess you can't min/max it as hard as Dominion because you still end up rolling dice in the end.

It's 2 designers are the dude who did Thunderblurst AND a the bro who did Warhammer Invasion AND Chaos in the Old World. That's the hotness!

DICE QUARWER Best thing about Dice Tower reviews is when he dumps out the components because some shitheel stalks his threads and complains about it EVERY TIME. Hilarious.

Sure man, I figure Fantasy Flight will be a high priority visit on the first day, so I'll see what we can do. Note, your copy may arrive slightly used... would that be an issue? :) I'd like to check out and possibly pick up Gears of War, if they've got it, and maybe their Cthulhu dice game too.

Rude, I read that description and started feeling like they were using that word Quar like Smurfs uses Smurf... do you really think it looks good?

Oh, if it's Johnny's link, I've already got a copy and will ups it immediately!

Edit: Serious post, it doesn't look like it comes out till October! So yeah, that would be sweet if you guys scored an early copy. Also, try out Quarriors if you get a chance. That's out within like the week, but I'm pretty curious about it. Give us teh scooples!

| Bloody Bowl

No he meant this.

Blood Bowl

Am I to assume you are referring to this bad boy? If so, I will keep an eye out, but I think camping out may not be in the cards sir.

D>M>

| Please, please, please, please

please, please, please, please will someone pick me up a copy of the Blood Bowl card game if it is for sale at Gen Con? If it is, I would expect it to be VERY limited, so do a bro a solid and camp out the night before. I mean, c'mon, it's the LEAST you could do.

*The site I linked HERE has the rules. Looks fairly simple. Unless what you have is something different? Maybe it's Michael Anderson's Werewolfs. (Or did JP run that?)

*The guy who voices Bender on Futurama also voices the dude in the tutorial for Vampire. He's got a great voice and Bender totally sneaks in here and there.

*You guys are going to Gen Con in less than a WEEK!!! Have fun, dammit! Wish I was going. Gonna be in Catalina those days off hiking n shit, but I'll dream of rolling the dice in Lake Geneva. Oh fuck, I wonder if there's still a Wiznuts booth that gives out free shit. That was like Nirvana at that So Cal Gen Con. I want more free shit.

Pump: Ooo, the Endermen sounds like a great addition to spice things up in Roachcraft. Looking forward to the new changes coming down the pipe.

r00d, I have a copy of Werewolf. I will have to dig up English instructions though. I have a German version a friend brought back from Germania. I never played it because of the large number of players needed to play it.

D>M>

That was a friggen awesome Dr Who. I haven't seen the last few years of the new series, but there were some amazing episodes those first few years I watched. One of these days I'm gonna go nuts and catch up.

Vampire:The Masquerade rpg computer game from 2004 is on sale this weekend on Steam for $5 bucks. It's supposed to be really good, so I'm going to pick it up. Word on the intertubes is that you should really download a the fanpatch that fixes a bunch of bugs in the game that weren't fixed in the last official patch that came out (which the Steam version is updated to). I guess the patch also adds a lot of content, but you can choose to just have the bug fixes or fixes/new stuff. I'm gonna play with just the fixes to see how it was meant to be.

1. Get the Steam version of Vampire
2. Get the fanpatch HERE (ver 7.6b)

Funny convention memories... you must invite him INTO the room.

| Sqeeeee!

Dr Who Weeping Angels? That is one of the most terrifying thing I've seen recently. Look it up! Put those in Minecraft? I'm super excited and scurred at the same time. Like I needed to dump more hours into this game.

Squeee!