Reply To: Hobby Weekender 01/06/18 – Schools out

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“The murmur of excitement is palpable as the reigning champion steps up to the diaz!” 😉

My pledge is that, once I’ve cut the green weeds that proxy for grass in front of my house, that I might stop thinking about the possibility of painting my SW:L rebels and actually pick up a brush, use it to collect up some actual paint and introduce it to an actual model.

(1) Yup!  It was >25 years or so ago (I know… I barely look old enough in my photo) and was AD&D 2nd Ed.  My favorite character was a ginger haired half-elf with a secret quest to find the human (also not coincidentally ginger) that had seduced and abandoned his mother. DM was in on the secret… So my companions were constantly baffled why my wizard would suddenly  fly into a rage by piling into a bar fight I’d start at every other town we passed through.

(2) Breachside Broadcast by Wyrd Games.  If ever you wanted to understand the lore, background and characters in a game then this drips with the atmosphere in the world of Malifaux.  It’s about the setting not the gameplay.

(3) I’m now going to sound pretentious and arty-farty but… Manon des Sources as the sequel to Jean de Florette.  Gerard Depardieu spoils the first one for me with his OTT acting (see what I did there?) but thankfully his character dies at the end setting up the second film within which some of the acting by the rest of the cast is sublime.  All in an idyllic, hot South of France setting.

(4) I find a number of podcasts dull, irritating where a group of enthusiasts go a bit over anal… ( cough)… sorry, analytical when discussing a particular game and its ‘meta’ for want of a word. Especially when one of them rips into something you know well but completely misrepresents it as useless and ‘unplayable’; but you barely recognise their version because you’re quite successful with it and play it completely differently! Something maybe for over-competitive gamers who just want to ‘master’ a game, whereas I typically want to enjoy the world (hence answer 2).

(5) Truffle, but only if the truffle was dug up from under a sapling oak tree that a young Emmanuelle Beart danced under as Manon in the above film. 😉 Mmmm – anyone got a pig I can borrow?