Okay...here's the thing. You might know my family loves games, and it's lovely that people are always sending us games to the #MagicPorch. @RocketSpouse and I met playing D&D and we recently fell in love with RPGS again, especially during quarantine.
And you know people send stuff to the #MagicPorch, sometimes little personal things like a comic or a craft, sometimes big things like a sword or an Oculus or a PAINTING most recently.
So, you may remember a few months ago, when I said I needed dice.
And the wonderful people at @WyrmwoodGaming sent one of the most amazing care packages ever...
This was a few months ago, but it was a STUNNING box of high end and beautifully crafted RPG accessories.
First, two sets of astounding dice in raised ebony and ruby quartz...you have to see these to believe them.
AND they sent a Bocote dice vault, the same kind Jester uses when playing @CriticalRole, I am told.
And they topped it off with a Macassar Ebony dice tray, that...words don't do it justice. This stuff is IMMACULATE.
Okay, that's already bananas. I mean, they just sent it, didn't ask anything in return except that they hoped I would enjoy it.
WHICH I HAVE and every time I play an RPG I take all this stuff and it's like driving a Rolls Royce to Wendy's. :)
I really cherish it.
Hang on.
Also, I was wrong about the dark dice, they are raised OBSIDIAN, not raised ebony, sorry.
Okay. Here's where things get zoomed up eighty notches.
Okay, so Tuesday was a bad day, right? The dog genuinely unplugged the power to our phone and we missed a bunch of important calls. Then I locked myself out of my computer and @warcabbitMWM kindly spent FIVE HOURS showing me how to fix it (THANK YOU!).
Bad day. BUT WEDNESDAY.
So, I love the @WyrmwoodGaming crew, I love how much they care, and how passionate they are about making things not just good, but PERFECT. They guarantee everything forever, they just really, truly care, and I find that lovely.
I'm addicted to their web series, too.
It's called WYRM LIFE and it's fun and funny, but again, I just marvel at the care and craftsmanship. You should watch.
So, they make dice accessories, but they also make gaming furniture, and other bigger things.
Right now, they have raised their game entirely, they have created a series of modular gaming tables, from smaller coffee tables, to huge dining tables, all beautiful, from a variety of woods, from common to rare.
It's already the 12th most successful kickstarter EVER.
This sounds like a commercial, but the truth is, it just really makes me happy to know their are still people like that all over the gaming community.
Here's the kickstarter...take a look, it's amazing.
Okay, there are two sizes of coffee tables and three sizes of dining tables. The cool thing is, with conversion kits, you can change the size of your table as your needs change.
Seriously, take a look at the short video on the kickstarter to get an idea of the craftsmanship and variety of options.
There are all sorts of cool accessories, but the leaves come off to have a beautiful huge gaming surface. There is a magnetic track so you can put in all sorts of incredible accessories.
Ack. It's just unbelievable.
Anyway, for those still listening...
I chose the medium dining table, which seats six.
In black walnut with the black walnut leaves and the charcoal gaming surface.
Black walnut!
I am having some trouble getting photos from the Kickstarter page.
But it’s beautiful. The leaves come off, and it’s a gorgeous pristine gaming field with customizable options like felt and battle mats and acrylic covers, just for gaming.
Anyway, there IS a point to all of this beyond me freaking out.
It’s this.
Sometimes Tuesday sucks.
And sometimes Wednesday rocks.
:)
Thank you, @WyrmwoodGaming, I will cherish it and SLAY MANY KOBOLDS with this!
Ps. The weird thing is, they couldn’t possibly know this, but I have been wanting a gaming table since before there really WERE gaming tables, and to have it also be a beautiful dining table, that;s just...Providence? Incredible good fortune?
I don’t know.
But someday you’re all invited and we’ll playing 140,000 half-orcs!
Pps! A reader kindly got photos...this is what the table looks like...man, it’s purity!
I hear all the time, and have thought it myself, why does the world fear and hate mutants, but love the scary-looking oddballs in, say, the Fantastic Four?
Here is a thought about that.
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The Fantastic Four comes to save you.
You look out, and you see standing around you;
A woman who disappears
A man on fire
A rock-like golen creature
and the ultimate stretchy body horror.
OR.
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You look out and see
A great-looking guy with sunglasses
A beautiful woman with a cool fire bird effect
A goddess controlling a storm
A slightly hairy Canadian.
Why are citizens afraid of THIS four, and not the others?
When I was in second grade, our teacher read us, over the course of several days, an adaptation of Cool Hand Luke.
None of us knew anything about prisons, Southern culture, road gangs, prisoner abuse, or crime in general, really. We were seven years old, and enthralled.
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I remember, NO ONE missed school after the first day.
It starts with Luke, played by Paul Newman in the movie, getting drunk and busting up parking meters, for no good reason, so your introduction to him, in a child’s’ view, is bad, not revolutionary.
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Spoilers, but Luke ends up paying a heavy price for simply not being able to go along with what he is told to do, the falsehoods he is told are true. It is inevitable, even as kids we knew there would be no happy ending.
And we know it was wrong, the escalation. As kids.
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One of my favorite moments of the #DeadpoolAndWolverine World Premiere night.
The actual event was loud and flashy, the movie was bombastic. And I’m shy.
After it was over, walking back to my hotel with my beloved hubby…
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We saw Chris Claremont (resplendent in his pink jacket) in a quiet spot in a little park across from the huge event facade.
He took a photo, I think, and it might just be my fangirl imagination, but it seemed to me he was contemplating the spectacle and his role in it all…
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I didn’t want to interrupt.
So I just said hi, in passing. But he had some musings which I will treasure to have been there to hear.
And he talked a little about Hugh Jackman and the choices they made with the writing and performing of the character.
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All right, so this will take a bit, but this is a thread I have wanted to do for a while.
This is it, the X-MEN: FROM THE ASHES mega-thread!
Interested in the upcoming X-books but a little overwhelmed by the new characters, creative teams, and titles?
Well, I had an idea!
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In this thread, I am going to give an unapologetic personal opinion about each of the upcoming titles, starting with tomorrow's X-MEN #1.
I admit up front I am biased, okay? These are MY opinions, I have not consulted with the creative or editorial teams.
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I have read all the issues of all these books so far. They are all creative teams I like. They are all pushing for the best books they can. And I am on a bit of an X-Men high and don't deny my OBVIOUS enthusiasm.
I have a @jimlee story. Legendary comics writer John Ostrander needed eye surgery. A couple others and myself went all around SDCC to ask artists for an art donation to raise the funds to literally save not just his eyesight, but his eyes.
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It was for John Ostrander. And so I asked legendary artists that normally I would be intimidated just to talk to. We got pieces from Neil Adams, Matt Groening, and lots more.
Again, because it was for John, I worked myself up to ask the giants.
Everyone was lovely.
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But it was still intimidating. Asking legends whom I know get asked for stuff ALL THE TIME.
At the time, just as now, Jim was the biggest artist in comics. Not to mention…