I was suppose to start Dark Conspiracy adventure but that was put on the back burner since my daughter who had been playing Hunter: The Vigil on Tuesdays with her college group and she wanted to take a break from the modern/near future setting and strictly do some fantasy.

She wanted to play D&D. I obliged, though I wanted to start up with a 2nd Edition AD&D setting, the group wanted to go forth with 3e since it had templates and you could just pick one and go. I decided now is the time to run the Witchfire Trilogy. I had picked it up a while ago and never ever ran it.

Waiting for the players to show than some dice rolling, mountain dew drinking (yeah my eldest daughter had picked up a case of it… what a total nerd she is!).

I haven’t back a kickstarter role playing project and I will probably never will. I’ve been playing role playing games since 1979. I’ve played many role playing games and have picked up quite a few over the years, though when Kickstarter came around and role playing games were cropping up I was intrigued but I decided to step back and just wait for the game to come to print (or if it ever does go to print since the world these days are ebooks, pdfs).

I see no reason for me to toss some money for any game just to have swag or unlocking a stretch goal. Maybe, I’m just two freaking set in my ways, who knows. I was tempted when Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls was announced and saw that they made some pretty serious kickstarting funds right from the get-go. I have been playing the corgi edition of this game for decades it seems and was really tempted. Though, I decided to wait and see. One day I will end up owning this new deluxe edition when it, fingers crossed, is printed and set in stores. With all the rpgs out there trying reap in the kickstarter rewards I’m happy to see that it is doing fine, but they won’t be getting my dime… not yet… maybe one day… but not on this day.

An old dog might learn a few tricks.

I picked up Fantasy Flight’s Star Wars: The Edge of the Empire Beginner Game yesterday while I was in Ottawa. I popped over to Wizard’s Tower and there it was sitting on the shelf. I wasn’t going to pick up the new Star Wars rpg since I had WEG’s and also WOTC versions of the game and I really, really, didn’t need another Star Wars game to clutter up my shelf.

But, on a whim I grabbed it since it came with the newfangled dice and I just wanted to see what the mechanics were. I’m really not into the gimmicky role playing games that offer cards, tokens, different design dice. I like my games old fashioned; since I’m an old-fashioned kind of guy. I had no other interest in the game; so here I am with the beginner box set and glancing through the rulebook and characters provided and thinking of giving it a shot to see how it all works out.

… that and also I’ve been watching a ton of Doctor Who episodes as well. When I was working on a Dark Conspiracy scenario and I had an inkling of an idea and jotted it down. Then, I proceed to expand on it and then whammo a full fledged adventure was born. All thanks to The Doctor! My players wouldn’t even know what hit ‘em.