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This is the trailer for the indie game I helped make :D. Go like us on FB if you haven't! We also have a YouTube page and website here (There's a link to our FB page there!)

I was doing a computer back up and I found some old pdfs of Chainmail and 1st ed D&D (little brown books) that I bought at Drive Through RPG (http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/index.php) back when WOC was selling all the old TSR stuff in pdf several years ago. I was glancing through and I got a bit nostalgic:

Remember when there were only 3 classes (Fighting Man, Magic-User, and Cleric)?
Remember when there were only men, elves, dwarves, and hobbits?
Remember when all weapons only did 1d6?
Remember when there were no prestige classes? No splat books? Green large print character sheets? Only one blue stapled together rulebook?

Those were simpler, magical, times for me. When my imagination filled in what my character carried and no need for an Arms and Equipment Guide or encumbrance . One set of dice (the DM's). No miniatures. No multiple copies of rulebooks and laptops filled with rules. The DM was law. He set my imagination in motion and anything he said was cannon. I lived the adventure in my head. My mind's eye saw my Prince Valiant like fighter (he didn't even have a name) fight terrible goblins and scary animated skeletons each encounter a near-character-death experience. 45 minutes of excitement until I had to get off at my bus-stop. The thrill of my first real game session that lasted an evening! I cherish those first role-playing experiences and miss the simplicity and innocence/nativity of rules. Part of me wishes to go back to 1983...wipe my mind of all things rules, game systems, business of gaming, marketing, popular opinion, media, and movies and to experience it all again for the first time and FEEL the magic again.

Props to the old Skoolers Gygax and Arneson. I met them both before they passed and that I treasure. I even gamed with Dave Arneson back in the day at Origins. They were guys like me just wanting to have fun and experience the magic.
My first D&D book, $2 at the Montgomery Wards mail order damages store:

Retro Shoot with Murphy

Jason from this here blog did some photos with me. Honestly, I'm not all that excited about more than one or two of them from the first three sets, but the fourth set, Jason Solo, I got some stuff I think is pretty freakin rad. So if you look at any of 'em, look at those.

Night at the Bar I
Night at the Bar II
Night at the Bar - Diana Solo
Night at the Bar - Jason Solo - Easily my fave. The rest are little forgettable. Fullscreen slideshow of Jason Solo here

Are you ready to fuckin' rock?

For a mere $75+ you can experience the brilliance of Hall & Oates on March 27th, celebrating the second anniversary of The Long Center!

DETAILS HERE for our many fans of Hall and/or Oates.

(and yes, they can see you through the computer monitor)

Probably another Sky Captain fiasco...

...but this CGI demo reel of a retro, 30s-style spaceship is kinda neat. It's for a Buck Rogers web series that's licensed but also sort of a fan project. I give at a 5% chance of being decent, but I do like me some retro spaceships.

Lost - The Sitcom!

Not as good as the Lost theme song video, of course, but pretty fun takes on "sitcom style" credits for Lost:

Season One:

Season Two:

Season Three:

Thunder Frog

You know, I don't generally buy busts, but...

This is extremely weird and cool. Coming from Bowen this summer.

Silent Shadow of the Bat-Man

Be sure to watch all 3 parts.

April Movie Night - Stallone!

Pretty sure everyone got the evite, but just in case they didn't ('cuz evite is a crappy site with a crappy address book function), here's the invitation to the April movie night.

This time out: Tango & Cash and Demolition Man.

It's the last Sunday of the month (April 27th), at my place (11205 Bending Bough Trail) starting at 8 PM (although Rock Band starts at 5:30 or 6:00 or whenever people show up, and showing up early is welcomed and encouraged.)

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