Year: 2008

This one is in honour of Gary Gygax, father of pen and paper role play gaming. Gary Gygax died on 3rd March 2008 at the age of 69, his influence will be missed.

Thirteen Things about Fantasy series and games 1…. Pen and paper D&D, although I’ve not had the chance to play the versions Mr Gygax was most comfortable with. 2…. Baldur’s Gate series – D&D brought to the PC, with occasional non-player character interaction that rarely fails in bringing out the grin 3…. Neverwinter Nights – D&D again, this one rewrote the book on how these games were done (as did Baldur’s Gate!) 4…. Dragonlance – and especially the writings of Richard A Knaak 5…. Elder Scrolls – never really got into these but this legendary series would most likely not have happened without the inspiration of D&D 6…. Greyhawk – template for many a fantasy world. Make the setting believable and you inspire great stories to come. 7…. Drizzt Do’Urden and company – R.A. Salvatore’s work is always worth a read, bringing that D&D world to life. 8…. The highly amusing Munchkin card game, inspired by the rules written by Gary Gygax. 9…. GenCon, the USA’s largest annual hobby game gathering, started by Gary Gygax. 10…. The Dungeons and Dragons animation series, co-produced by Gary Gygax. 11…. Warhammer – possibly my favourite role play system at the moment, if a little magic-light. Definitely the system that really brought fantasy battles to the masses, this time by Games Workshop. 12…. Ultima. Led the way in pioneering the Massive Multiplayer Online game, although Everquest was really the breakthrough here. The big one that everyone hears about now is just cashing in on what Ultima and Everquest broke the trail for. And those built on what D&D had started. 13…. Robert E Howard’s Conan stories

May have to see if we can persuade a couple of people to smuggle some over 🙂

Chocolate Buttons are manna from heaven. Especially Giant Buttons. But I had to give them up after realising that they were doing weird things to my heart rate. Doesn’t stop me being a rebel sometimes though 🙂

I’ve been very happy with the Ford I have now … It’s going to be a wrench to let it go. It’s reached the point where lots of things start breaking. Haven’t a clue what to get next, they don’t make my car any more so no trading it in for a younger model 🙁

Got a piccy here :

>Need Car

(must upgrade my blog template to make it easier to peek for old posts …)

The way the site I work on is built is to organise the buildings into 4 groups. To get my lunch, I could just go down to the canteen in the building group I’m in but I like to head over to the next one instead …

The people who work in the next one have caught my grin, which makes me grin more when I see them smile 🙂 Plus the walk over there and the fresh air will do me a lot of good.

Must get playing cricket again so I can satisfy the need for fresh air 🙂

Very cute dog!

I’ve had a VW Jetta for many years and it has been a frequent headache – their wiring is absurd and their parts cost a fortune.

Never again – I’d be better off counting on the dog to get me where I need to be

Gah! Cadbury’s chocolate buttons!! I haven’t had those since I fed them to the kids as babies. You know how it goes, half for you, 2 for mommy … and so on. LOL.

I don’t even know if we can get them out here in Canada. I’ll definitely be looking out for them!

Lol ! Just spotted in an advert break in the cricket :

VW Polo with Confidence ad

I saw the pooch in the bank and went “aawwww”. Sense of humour definitely makes an advert 🙂 Don’t think this advert will change my mind though as to whether I’ll be considering VW’s for my next car. We’ve just had too many bad ones recently. As in, 2 VW Golf TDi’s that have been below par. 2 out of 2 doesn’t inspire confidence (that word again!) that the next VW will be any good …

Nice ad though 🙂

PS I don’t share Easter Eggs. It’s mine 🙂 And will probably be gone inside 10 minutes !