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Comic Book Shop: Buy More

Welcome to the first whatever these turn into…

Buy More in Rockford Michigan is an interesting comic book store. This was our second visit and the owner is still figuring out where he wants everything to go (he told us that). Buy More has only been open around a month.

Immediate impression, a very clean and organized shop. The owner is very friendly, offering a greeting, inquiring how we found…

Comic Book Store Reviews, Intro

We live in Michigan. This is informs you where these shops are. Turns out that there are a lot of similarly named comic book stores across the country.

The region of Michigan we live in does not have a lot of comic book stores. More than we thought and we can drive for several hours to a lot more, but here not so many as other places we have lived. With the number of people in the region in…

How I Learned to Love Summer and Not Fear the Summer Gaming Drought

Lengthy title. Oh well.

Summer is here or officially arriving soon. Regardless, our roleplaying game came to a screeching halt over the past three weeks. Not intended, but something I figured would happen sooner rather than later. In fact, summer, at least for me, is the worst time of year to be in a roleplaying game.

DAMN YOU SUNLIGHT!

Sunlight has not even played a part in this stoppage, yet.…

New Hope, Issue 2.5: Questions & Answers

Welcome, this will become a larger post, but for right now, some explanation. The game went on hiatus due to a head cold and then back to back comic cons-Motor City and Cherry Capital Comic Con or C4 (both were fun, but for different reasons). We set up to play on our regular day, excited to play, when out of the blue the players had character related questions. I was surprised, pleasantly…

New Hope, Issue 2: Blue Bolt

We skipped last week’s session to give me an extra week to work on this Issue. For me this was supposed to be a double sized issue, three scenes instead of one, setting up plots for the rest of this arc. Unfortunately you can never account for the players. What does that mean?

The bank robbery didn’t happen with any of the players involved. The restaurant robbery went as planned, slightly less…

New Hope, Issue 1.5: Reaction

This is this week’s player handout.

Immediate Reaction Red Rocket, Hero or Menace?

New Hope holds its breath

-New Hope Times Headline

  After Richard Kalbee (Officer Msuki information only) is detained and taken to the local police station for questioning, clean up of the accident begins as does the media storm. Lead by Dominique Chase, Channel 4 News begins an expose on people with…

New Hope, Issue 1: Breaking News

A week later…

The characters (according to each of them when asked) returned to their normal lives. Officer Msuki resumed her patrol duties, Angelica waited on tables, Peyton went back to work at GEN-TorEnt, and Mike studied for and took an engineering exam, he got a B.

Meanwhile, the world exploded with news of incidents of people with unexplained powers. Most are written off as freak accidents,…

New Hope, Issue .5: Fallout

Our New Hope Supers game has moved to Sundays, which is a good thing for me, as it gives me more time to work out the details. Such as below. This is the handout the players will receive before the next game detailing the aftermath of the session. My goal is to improve the look and feel, more comic bookish and flavor, but for this week this is what they get.

Wide View

“Dominique Chase reporting…

New Hope, Issue 0: Origin Story

Every comic book story has an origin issue. Tonight was our origin story. First, some background…

The campaign, Rise of the Supers, begins in 2019 in the city of New Hope. New Hope is built upon the remains of Chicago, after a worldwide disaster where major cities around the globe were destroyed by an unknown means at the same time. New Hope is the first city of the new age.

The characters, who…

You’d Think This Would Be Easier

A common conversation around here goes like this, “If you could have any super power what would it be?” or “Who do you think would win, Hulk or Thor?” or any conversation about the latest superhero movie, granted Marvel movies get more traction here than DC movies. Although, DC animated films are superior to Marvel animated movies.

We go to comic cons, we have a favorite comic book store (a story…

Hopefully For The Last Time

Our Dungeons and Dragons campaign…well more like series of games that were related only by the name Dungeons and Dragons died. Died implies something quick. This was slow and insidious, if one player had said, “I’d rather have a gun or computer or car.” I might have figured out what the problem was faster. I like to think I am quick on the uptake. I did know there was a problem, unfortunately the…

Funny Stuff Happens at the Gaming Table

Behind the wooden door you clearly hear the sounds of wolves howling, clawing at the door, and snarling.

“I pull out my wolves bane and open the door.”

“Wait…”

The door burst open knocking you down a large, starved wolf lands upon your chest and tears out your throat.

Funny stuff happens at the gaming table.

The player thought that wolfsbane would keep wolves at bay. Fair enough. It did not.

I am…

Since we started roleplaying I have created three fantasy settings, one post apocalyptic fantasy setting, and created or modified more rules than I care to admit to in the short 12 weeks of gaming.

I like having premade settings lying around 1.) to read because a good roleplaying setting is fun to read 2.) idea fodder and 3.) what not to do. I do not, stress DO NOT, enjoy using premade settings.…

Finding a Game is Harder than Finding a Threesome

Welcome,

It’s been a while and I know I made some general statement…what, a year ago or more, that I would post and blah blah blah, and then I took the site offline. Oh well, I needed the time off more than I realized and needed…well the gist of the story is that for right now I am writing again.

Yeah, I haven’t written anything longer than a check for a while. It’s a shame, but at the same time…

I’m Good At Daggering (PF 2)

“… a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”

-George R.R. Martin

We six gathered around the table, dice piled nearby, pencils clicked (no old fashioned pencils that need sharpening for us), a pile of rulebooks, and character sheets at the ready for our first role playing session.

Adults at the ends of the tables, children between. This is a standard formation…

I’ll Be In The Bathroom Pondering My Character’s Name (PF 1)

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”

-Heraclitus, Fragments

Welcome, welcome to the first of the Adventures in Pathfinder RPG. A series of posts about our adventures playing the Pathfinder RPG in an attempt to add to our list of games we play, give us something to do on the weekend, play with the family, and have some fun.

The initial plan was for me to generate characters for…

Alex’s Strawberry Scented Tank

“Tell him that we fucking reprogrammed reality. Tell him that language is a virus and that religion is an operating system and that prayers are just so much fucking spam.”

-Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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GET YOUR SHIT IN GEAR!

I would love to tell all of you that since my first post of the year I have gotten 15 new followers taking me well over the 500 mark. I cannot because…