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The various media streams have been filled of late with the traditional warnings of the season. Drinking and driving is a very real concern, especially on nights where the holiday practically demands you stay up past your bedtime, imbibe the beverages of your choice, and then sleepily drive home. Don't DO that.</p>

Our annual cautionary message remains the same: stay safe, and use those hours of watching the year tick down to play a game! Nanuk is perfect for large gatherings, particularly when there are casual gamers in the mix. Frag Gold Edition is a good choice for groups who want to play a few rounds and then wander off to check the snacks. Or heck, pull out that old Milton Bradley box from the closet!</p>


-- Paul Chapman</p>

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So my sister-in-law and brother who live in North Carolina came to Minnesota together for only the second time for the holidays. On the way home from the Christmas celebration at my uncle's house, a few of us were for some unknown reason humming Battle Hymn of the  Republic.

Me: You know what's really cool? Mark Twain wrote an awesome version of Battle Hymn of the Republic, a satire. I don't remember much of it but it's definitely worth looking into.

Sister-In-Law: Wait, Mark Twain is a singer, right?

Me: *looks at her for a moment hoping she's being facetious...she isn't.* No...Mark Twain was an author.

S-I-L: *blank stare*

Me: ...Tom Sawyer?

S-I-L: OH!!* laughs* Then who's the Twain singer?

Brother: *shakes head* That would be Shania, babe.

This is a blanket "YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME" to the growing number of people playing characters from Phineas and Ferb, from the mun of gonnadoitall and oh_there_u_are. The internet needs more people from this series, and every time I see another one pop up over at dear_mun I get a little giddy. From Candace to Baljeet to Buford, from other Phineases (Phineai?) to Ferb and Vanessa, the myriad platypeople Perrys and Doofenshmirtzes, and any I may have missed. I love you all. Please keep it up ♥

There's, what, 8,000 Dean Winchester muses... are any of them written in-character?

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You'd rather RP with other people besides me? Fine. Even if you don't, you still don't want to RP with me (even though you don't say that. You're always "busy", although I can clearly see you aren't.) Fine.

When I say I'm thinking about killing the character off because all of her connections to people are weakening or severed altogether, you try to tell me not to, and to make her disappear instead (which...wouldn't that be worse?). No. That's not so fine.

If you don't give me the time of day RP-wise, you have no right to tell me, or even suggest to me, what I should do with my character.

I have decided not to kill that character off, because some people have told me that they want to help me liven her up some more, which I am grateful for. But I still don't want to RP with you. You can guilt-trip me all you want, but I got really tired of you ditching me, for people infamous for stirring up OOC drama. Ditching me in general was bad enough.

Our characters are supposed to be adoptive brother and sister. No, I don't think they should spend every single day together. But I don't see the point of them having that relationship, if it's never RP'ed out. It's like you want to keep it that way to make your own character seem shinier, being the awesome older brother and all, even though you can't take even five minutes every week to RP their relationship out.

But, yes. I am the bad guy here, and you're the only one trying to keep them together. Go die in a fire.

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OK, it's natural to put on a little weight over the colder months, but this is absurd. I'm up like 30 pounds.

Now, I could start counting points again, but I'd like to try and manage the weight without doing that. Mostly because counting points is a pain in the ass, but also because I'm just interested to see if I can do it.

To wit:

• No pop. It's empty calories, it's refined sugar, and Coke sure as fuck doesn't deserve my money. I'm fine on coffee and water, with occasional fruit juice for variety.
  
• Limited fried foods. I'm eating too much crap, and a large part of that is Geppettos. As much as I love their food, I think I need to limit that to, say, twice a month. That goes for fried food in general, so I'll just need to be more careful when eating out, which is rare anyway.
  
• Cut out the snacks. This is killer, particularly when I'm home from work, and especially when I'm done for the night. I need to a) avoid fattening snacks and b) up my self-discipline so I'm just not snacking as much. But, oh, nachos, how they call to me. Once a week.
  
• Cut out the sweets. I'm actually not bad about this, in that I don't go out of my way to eat sweets (now, the year that Heather was pregnant with Cael we pretty much had a standing tab at Friendly's). Once a week for dessert sounds about right.
  
• Get to the damn gym. If I can do that, I need to do something at home. It's too cold to go for long walks, damn it all, but I can at least do pushups/situps around here. Then Teagan can have fun holding my feet down for me.
  

There, that's a plan. Clock starts Monday, and I'll keep that up for January and see if I'm making progress. If I'm not, or if I'm gaining still, I'll start officially counting points in February.

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Have your players been good boys and girls?

If not, the perchta is waiting for them! In need of some wintery foes to throw at your Pathfinder players?

Then look no further, Mythic Menagerie: Winter Ravagers is here!

Winter Ravagers is the first in Super Genius Games’ new Mythic Menagerie line of monster products. The plan is for every Mythic Menagerie to offer a set of monsters that match a theme, with full write-ups, simple index card style summaries for use at the game table, and printable standee figures for every monster. But while future versions will feature typical fantasy adventure themes-fiends and cultists, dark fey, creatures from the subterranean kingdoms – Winter Ravagers is focused on a less common trope.

Because we’re “Geniuses,” and because the spirit of the holiday season moved us, we decided to make this very first product a little different from the line that will eventually follow. (Which, I admit, is not How Things Are Normally Done.) Everything in this book grows out of and is linked to the winter holidays. The creatures are ideal for adventures tied to Yuletide, Saturnalia, the Great Hunt, or any cold-weather gift-giving celebration you use in your campaigns, but most can also be used in other adventures set in arctic or merely wintry climes. So what are you waiting for?

Get your Winter Ravagers now!

Mythic Menagerie: Winter Ravagers is available at the Flames Rising RPGNow Shop.

So, I finally got around to watching the new Star Trek film and Pixar's Up.

I enjoyed both of them but neither will be in my "best" list (for whatever the value of best happens to be at the time) when talking movies.

I think some of the folks in ST were trying just a bit too much and their characters ended up a little more campy or rough then intended. Anyone know if there is another movie in the works to pick up where this left off?

Next on the viewing list is Casino Royale and Hulk vs. (it has both vs. Thor and vs. Wolverine on one disc). I'm looking forward to the Hulk one quite a bit.

  
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When I finished the Eberron campaign, you bitched at me about how it "wasn't the kind of campaign you built your character for". I said straight up it was a travelogue so people could get how the world works, not a deep exploration of one villian group. You built your character for fighting that group; this is not, in fact, my problem, is it? Your failed assumption is not my emergency.

Then you bitched when I told you that your attitude disqualified you for the next campaign. So sad, too bad. It did. You were a jerk, and I am a game master, and I do not need the stress of straight-up jackasses in my game. There's the door, don't let the knife on the doorknow hit you in the prostate on the way out.

Then people decided, since one of our core players is out of action indefinately with cancer of the intestine and liver, to play Star Wars. Which I also run, and everyone said they had fun with the last campaign. (The final session was a fight with long-running enemies that happened the same day of the Battle of Endor; everyone got a chance to be heroic and do great things, including the guy who threw himself into the battle droid, expecting to die along with it, but was saved at the last moment before falling into the reactor core. Really, it was dramatic as all hell.)

Then you sent a 'detailed description' of how I am an 'incompetent game master' to the email list, including things from Eberron and Star Wars, and claiming stuff from my house rules as being proof of it. (I don't care you want to play an Illumian from Races of Destiny; I think the race is stupid as a concept and I don't want them in my game.)

Yeah, screw you. You're a bad gamer, a bad RPer (why are all your characters bisexual nymphomaniacs, anyway?), and that last part shows you're moving to being a bad person.

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So. This isn't a rant, but I know we've all been there with items like this and possibly done it ourselves, so I thought this be a nice prep and laugh from the usual anger we all hold.

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