Category Archives: Zevia

To save me the time and effort of painstakingly drawing out on graph paper every single map that might get used, we decided to go the route of picking up some transparency sheets and some wet-erase pens. We would lay the transparencies over the big blank combat grid map, and then we could just quickly draw out any walls or objects that needed to be put in – or, if I wanted something complex, I could draw it out beforehand and just lay it over.

Of the 4 PCs that I made the request to to make miniatures, the 2 that I live with did it. One of my players often asks if I’ve been working on my campaign because he seems concerned I won’t be ready for each Monday night, so I actually zinged him at a party with the following conversation:

“Did you work on your campaign this week?”
“Did you work on your miniature?”
“…”

And we moved right along to some Rock Band.
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Monday the 14th will actually mark week 3, but I didn’t get around to doing a write-up for our session until now.

At the end of the first session, the 3 PCs – Hammit the dwarf shaman, Zeekual the dwarf fighter, and Vo the half-elf warlock – had burned down Devardec’s farmhouse, investigated the barn a little bit (and discovered the symbol of the Raven Queen painted across the door), noticed a soft purple glow coming from inside, and tried to interrogate some bandits they tied up to no real avail. Turns out it’s hard to get information out of what are essentially squatters after incinerating their friends and disemboweling them with a magic bear.

Between week 1 and week 2, another friend rolled up a character, a Dragonborn sorcerer. His name escapes me at the moment, unfortunately. Now I couldn’t really think of an amazing way to slip this guy into the story before the next round of combat, and I wanted him to be in on the game from the get-go that night, so we basically just agreed that Devardec had just kept sending every person he could find to his farm until he got results, and since he hadn’t heard back from the other 3 adventurers, fuck it, send someone else.
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This is going to be one of those very wordy times of mine. Of course, every time I talk is a wordy time of mine, but nonetheless.

First, I’ll give you an update on how D&D is going so far. Then I’m going to talk about another “MMO” (sort of) that I played for a couple months back around September that I’m now playing again with one of my roommates. Following that, I saw a documentary recently that ties well into internet culture and wanted to comment a bit with some thoughts generated from it. Lastly, I’ll mention why I’m a bit embarrassed over playing Super Smash Bros. Melee.

Hope you got some time to kill and a good pair of reading glasses.
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When Saate first approached me about the possibility of adding some articles to the site from time to time, I asked him what exactly he was looking for from me. I was a little perplexed when the response was, “Whatever you feel like doing.”

For long-time followers of the site, you may know that Saate’s articles tend to be very focused on relevant topics as related to WoW, and almost always related to achievements of some form. They’re carefully considered, they’re constructed with graphs and mathematical precision, and it’s rare that he speaks up without some kind of information that can directly relate to obtaining something desirable within the WoW universe. Sometimes they even offer nifty insight to real-life practices with lessons taken from WoW.

Whereas mine are… Well, they’re like taking the concept of chaos, turning it into a person, and then telling Mr. Chaos to chug several pitchers, stick his face against the bottom of a baseball bat which has been upturned and planted firmly against the ground, spin around several times, then go ahead and stumble forward off a cliff until he faceplants on an oversized checkerboard with ideas written in each square, and just go ahead and go with whatever the remains of his face have splattered across.
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