Yesterday was two years to the day since the passing of Gary Gygax. I should have posted yesterday about this, but in all honesty I spent my time after work doing gaming-related things. Which I think is the way it should be.
I don't think I really need to big up the influence that Mr Gygax has had on my life - there are lots of other blogs and web pages out there that do that a lot better than I can, but I would just like to encourage anyone reading this to play some kind of game in the next week - whatever it is!
As for me, two days ago I took part in a Call of Cthulhu adventure, yesterday evening I was building terrain boards for wargaming and role-playing. Tonight I shall be printing out and building card-stock scenery and this weekend I plan to try and talk my wife into a couple of games of Munchkin. I've also got a game of Warhammer 40,000 scheduled for the middle of next week.
The anniversary of Mr Gygax's passing is becoming known as GM's Day - a time to celebrate your GamesMaster or whatever you call the person that organises your games. To celebrate this a number of publishers at RPGNow are offering 25% of their games. I should say I'm just a happy customer of RPGNow, not linked with them in any other way. I took advantage of the sale to fill up on some more card-stock PDFs from Fat Dragon Games and I'm really looking forward to building some of them tonight!
God Bless You, Mr Gygax, and I hope you're rolling in your grave in the best possible way! :)
Prince Azalea.
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Friday, March 05, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
When does 'many' become 'too many'?
I met up with a gaming friend last night who moved away from my city at the beginning of the year to study for an MSc. Apart from having a good chat and a catch-up over a cup of tea, he had decided that he needed to reduce the amount of things he'd left at his parent's house and wanted to pass onto me all of his 1/72 minis that he's collected over the years, because he knows I'll use them and play with them. Which, to be fair, is quite true.
Now that is quite a lot of 1/72 minis! I was flattered and pleased and of course I insisted he accept a fair amount for them to at least help a litle with his studies. I was also really quite pleased that when I got home my wife was already in bed and I was able to quietly secrete these minis in the garage!
But for those who are already familiar with how full my garage is (part 1 and part 2) I had to wonder if my garage could cope with this influx. After stending a few hours tidying up today, I now think my garage will be fine this time, but it got me thinking about how many miniatures are 'too many'? I have plans and projects for everything in my garage - and for everything that my friend passed onto me, too, now. But will there come a point where I will really need to do what he's done and cut down on my collection?
For now, I think the answer is no. But one day that day might arrive and how will I chose what to pass on?!
Prince Azalea
Now that is quite a lot of 1/72 minis! I was flattered and pleased and of course I insisted he accept a fair amount for them to at least help a litle with his studies. I was also really quite pleased that when I got home my wife was already in bed and I was able to quietly secrete these minis in the garage!
But for those who are already familiar with how full my garage is (part 1 and part 2) I had to wonder if my garage could cope with this influx. After stending a few hours tidying up today, I now think my garage will be fine this time, but it got me thinking about how many miniatures are 'too many'? I have plans and projects for everything in my garage - and for everything that my friend passed onto me, too, now. But will there come a point where I will really need to do what he's done and cut down on my collection?
For now, I think the answer is no. But one day that day might arrive and how will I chose what to pass on?!
Prince Azalea
Friday, February 26, 2010
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ...
Wow, didn't realise that I had left this blog to go fallow for so long!
Much has changed, though. Prince Azalea has begun wargaming again regularly - in fact not just regularly, quite a lot! Kids have started school. I've built lots of my own terrain and painted many miniatures. I'm in a different job and even my lovely spouse has gone back to do doing a little bit of work in the Azalean Imperial Libraries now the kids are a little older!
Also, I've started writing regularly and had a couple of things published by small scale publishers, which is one of the reasons for resurrecting this sadly neglected corner of the internet. Following good advice from BubbleCow and IainBroome that writers should blog regularly, I've logged back in here and I'll give it a go!
Here's hoping I can keep it up, but if anyone is actually reading this, please go ahead and post a comment of encouragement! :D And I shall attempt to keep up some regular posting this time!
Prince Azalea
Much has changed, though. Prince Azalea has begun wargaming again regularly - in fact not just regularly, quite a lot! Kids have started school. I've built lots of my own terrain and painted many miniatures. I'm in a different job and even my lovely spouse has gone back to do doing a little bit of work in the Azalean Imperial Libraries now the kids are a little older!
Also, I've started writing regularly and had a couple of things published by small scale publishers, which is one of the reasons for resurrecting this sadly neglected corner of the internet. Following good advice from BubbleCow and IainBroome that writers should blog regularly, I've logged back in here and I'll give it a go!
Here's hoping I can keep it up, but if anyone is actually reading this, please go ahead and post a comment of encouragement! :D And I shall attempt to keep up some regular posting this time!
Prince Azalea
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