Shedding Light on the Situation ..

Partying can be fun!

Today Elyssa spent some time in Qufim partying it up with some fellow adventurers. Except for a slight mishap involving some mistargetted macros, everything went smoothly. Well, mostly.

The Ice Age Cometh ..

..again. Wizards of the Coast is releasing an expansion for their Ice Age set. Yes, you heard it right, they’re releasing an expansion for a set that was made about 10 years ago in the dusky days of my high school career (+feels old).

To be fair, Ice Age was a bit before its time. Since its creation Wizards continued with their tradition of having one shot expansions. Ice Age was meant to be like the later sets, I believe debuing with Tempest, that were in cycles of three; the first set came out with the largest amount of cards and also the run of lands and then the story was advanced through the next two sets. Ice Age had the first and the third (I think) but it was missing one..

Enter Coldsnap, Ice Age’s long lost sibling. Not much is currently known about this new expansion, well, by me at least. It seems that rather than re-release the run of snow-covered lands, we’re going to see snow-covered permanents and a new kind of mana specifically for this set. So now, instead of worrying about all those snow-covered swamps (regarding which the designers brought up a good point about, in a frozen land, isn’t everything snow-covered?) instead you might have some snowy elves or chilly artifacts that you can tap for this new and improved mana cost. It’ll have it’s own symbol, of course, which is nice. However this just kinda seems like another way to handle the same thing we already had with the snow-covered lands.. without having a second grouping of lands. I don’t mind, I suppose.

Regardless, I figure I’ll pick up some packs, I usually do. The pre-release events for this set are this week (7/8-7/9) so I assume that they should hit shelves next week or the one after that.

Sew What..?

So, what you may or may not know is that I’ve been spending more time with Elyssa in Vana’Diel.

Without Further Ado..

I’m itching to run some one shots. These will be little nuggets of gaming fun so that everyone (me included) can try out some of these other gaming systems I have on hand. I can basically throw together about anything anyone would want (with my own flair, of course ;D) so I’m mainly looking for votes for gaming systems. Some of them lend themselves to a particular theme (such as Unknown Armies and Call of Cthulhu(Cathulhu anyone?)) but others, like Big Eyes Small Mouth, leave a lot of leeway as to what the theme can be. So, leave suggestions for a game and theme, heck, leave multiple suggestions. Make a list in order of interest and leave that, it’s all good. Right now the systems I have (thanks to the magic of alphabetizing!) are:

• Big Eyes Small Mouth
• Call of Cthulhu
• Call of Cthulhu (Cathulhu)
• Dungeons & Dragons (Eberon)
• Dungeons & Dragons (Other)
• Talislanta
• Unknown Armies

I don’t think I left any out .. So yeah, leave me some info!

In The Beginning ..

..there was a fist post! Yay!  Ahem.  Well.. probably noone knows I’m actually using this.  So.. without further ado.

This ‘blog is in place to keep up with all my gaming groupies.  Also it’s where I’ll keep up with game related news and information.. at least that’s the idea.

So anyway, leave some comments whenever you feel like it, let me know how games are progressing, what you’d like to see more or less of.  Also suggestions are, of course, always welcome for anything game or website related.