Well, in addition to becoming a lazy Brooklynite, I've become a lazy blogger, as well. What can I say? After the move, I just fell into the habit of doing fuck all.

As my brother points out it is indeed the 30th anniversary of Dungeons and Dragons. It's really nice to remember all those hours spent trying to image a world where cool things happened through the force of will, instead of the world where terrible things happen against your will. Or as you mere mortals might call it, Juniour High.

Of course, it introduced me to the idea of role-playing games in general, which is something I've struggled with all my life. I still play the video game versions of D and D all the time. In fact Sheri and I are playing Dungeons and Dragons Heroes for Xbox together right now. It's a nice couples game because it's not too frustrating and we get to help each other out a lot, thereby building valuable relationship skills. I'm sure that if we went into therapy together, any decent counseler would just say 'well you guys have already slain an armored dragon together, there's nothing I can teach you'.

But still, real role playing has always posed a problem for me. It's not that it's too geeky. Look at me, after all. But just that I have a hard time pretending to be something odd. I'm good at pretending, look I'm pretending you're interested right now. But when you play games with people, there's always a palpable sound of them working their personal shit out that turns me off. The skinny nerdy guys playing barbarians are always just too much for me to handle. Never mind the fat guys playing female barbarians.

But this is all just putting off a confession. Here it is. I recently acquired a couple sets of Cthulu based card rpgs. Anybody wanna play?   ¶ 10:03 PM 0 comments