FormCritic wrote:HelloGone for almost a year. Logging on to say I am alive.Probably should have found a more dramatic post for #4000, but I decided to just give it a miss.Still collecting, although not at the rabid pace of a couple years ago.Free RPG Day was a disappointment. Not free. Probably not going back into my FLGS. You had me going there for a minute, Badmike, when you mentioned living in Cross Plains....thought for a second it was true. (Probably should have remembered better than that. A detail like Cross Plains would have stuck in my mind long before. I would have been bugging you with all kinds of questions.)Good thing I don't have a local homeowners association. My lawnmower is broken and I'm waiting for a towing company to come take away my totaled minivan.I'm working summer school and generally not having summer off.Our Arthurian campaign is running pretty well. Everyong is having fun. Only problem is that it's not very Arthurian. Turns out that an Arthurian campaign that takes place in a dungeon and does not involve any noble knights is like the characters on Red Dwarf experiencing "...the heady medieval atmosphere of 14th century deep space." So, Avalon I is somewhat under-Merlined. Maybe Avalon II will work out better. Sometimes I call it the XXX Campaign. I don't think it has occured to any of my gamers why. It's not because it's sexy or because it's got no name. It's because this year marks 30 years since I started the Seven Worlds Campaign as a DM.So, anyway....hi everyone. Now maybe I should answer some of the in-box items in my PM's.Mark
Badmike wrote:A great article on the legendary "rubber room" and why New York and LA are circling the drain when it comes to education... http://news.aol.com/article/nyc-teachers-paid-to-do-nothing/538142 Mike B.
Badmike wrote:What did Mark miss in the last year.....I jumped about 1000 posts on you.... The entire 1st annual NTRPG, from conception, announcement, build up, to execution...The entire Castle Zagyg phenomenom and the TLG sell off of CZ stuff...Gail Gygax taking back the licensing of CZ and also cancelling Lejendary Adventures...2-3 battles in the forum between members....The Erol Otus art project (still ongoing).....More Cougar madness.....A new DCC collectible (C9 Tomb of the Blind God) and the release of the 1st edition DCC7 by Black Blade Publishing (our own TacoJon and Grodog)....An entire new set of edition wars (4E vs 1E/2E/3E, etc).....The dumping of DCC product and sales and subsequent frenzied searching for items like DCC #35 box set.....Slow rise of certain 3/3.5 collectibles (RA Reloaded, etc) and speculation about what 3E items will be collectible for the future....Lots of talk of counterfeit or photocopied POTVQs.......Frank Mentzer starting a new Emphyria campaign with some Acaeum members in the crew (Bracton, Stratochamp, IO, etc).....Ok guys what did I miss from last August that Mark just has to know????Mike B.
even minimum care on Troll Lords' part. Pretty shameful.
FormCritic wrote:Here's a clue: Hold the hearings.
serleran wrote:Oh,I'm not defending TLG, since I have heard enough stories about bad shipping... but, I've never seen it myself. So, I guess I'll chalk it up to being "lucky." It is a little weird to me, though, since I see "conflicting stories" here...and not really so much anywhere else.
