Monday, May 31, 2004
Don't you feel like you're just trying to re-live your childhood?
That's what Jacquie asked me while I was reading Dragon Magazine yesterday afternoon. She seems to think that my continuing enjoyment of playing Dungeons & Dragons has something to do with me refusing to give up my childhood. ... Yeah, sure, no problem -- why would I want to stop having fun? You're only as young as you act, and I happen to like being (feeling?) young. If I'm still gaming, and enjoying it, when my teeth are falling out and I've got no hairs left on my head, I'll be happy.
Anyway, it had actually been a very long since I'd picked up a copy of Dragon. According to my neatly-organized collection of Dragons covering D&D 3E (that's third edition, for the uninitiated), I haven't purchased an issue since July 2002. I seem to recall becoming somewhat disappointed with the magazine, but I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to grab the June 2004 issue. It's the commemorative 30th Anniversary issue of Dungeons & Dragons. That's right -- you heard correctly. Thirty frickin' years!
The issue offered up a nice retrospective on the history of D&D and laid out quite a few of the game's important milestones, like the introduction of the Forgotten Realms and DragonLance, the release of the first issues of The Strategic Review and Dragon, the launch of the D&D cartoon and the purchase of TSR (or T$R, if you'd prefer) by Wizards of the Coast.
However, much of the rest of the issue sucked big donkey cock. Aside from the history lesson, I felt like I'd wasted my money. The magazine has only gotten worse since I last purchased an issue. What a shame.
Anyway, it's obvious by now that I hit Wyldstar on the weekend (Saturday, specifically). I picked up a batch of comics, which I read Saturday afternoon. I'll do my mini-reviews of all of those later. Sunday night was a gaming night. Logan, Rich and Jacquie finished up their mutant animal characters for the Rifts: Escape From Lone Star campaign. More on that another time.
Anyway, it had actually been a very long since I'd picked up a copy of Dragon. According to my neatly-organized collection of Dragons covering D&D 3E (that's third edition, for the uninitiated), I haven't purchased an issue since July 2002. I seem to recall becoming somewhat disappointed with the magazine, but I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to grab the June 2004 issue. It's the commemorative 30th Anniversary issue of Dungeons & Dragons. That's right -- you heard correctly. Thirty frickin' years!
The issue offered up a nice retrospective on the history of D&D and laid out quite a few of the game's important milestones, like the introduction of the Forgotten Realms and DragonLance, the release of the first issues of The Strategic Review and Dragon, the launch of the D&D cartoon and the purchase of TSR (or T$R, if you'd prefer) by Wizards of the Coast.
However, much of the rest of the issue sucked big donkey cock. Aside from the history lesson, I felt like I'd wasted my money. The magazine has only gotten worse since I last purchased an issue. What a shame.
Anyway, it's obvious by now that I hit Wyldstar on the weekend (Saturday, specifically). I picked up a batch of comics, which I read Saturday afternoon. I'll do my mini-reviews of all of those later. Sunday night was a gaming night. Logan, Rich and Jacquie finished up their mutant animal characters for the Rifts: Escape From Lone Star campaign. More on that another time.
// posted by Chris @ 9:14 AM 
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A pretty weak attempt to get free publicity I guess. You have to wonder how many other people's blogs ended up with a similar totally unrelated post.
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