davew wrote on Mar 30^th, 2010 at 10:55pm:


South Park's satire is underappreciated, and their film is one of my favorite musicials!

I still quote from Ru Paul's cameo in A Very Brady Sequel.

Guilt free!

Same here on the old board games.... I've come across a couple of really unusual ones that I've picked up for dirt cheap at thrift stores and yard sales...  including Chem Action (a board game from some chemical company- its like Scrabble in a way but you build real world molecular formulas instead of words), Shadowlord! (a sci-fi/fantasy crossover), and Danger Island.
Board game design is something that I've also fiddled around with in my spare time and we have one that I made that we play pretty regular (it has 4 different ways to win so each game experience is often quite unique) but I've yet to seriously seek out publication of it. I've also been playing around with a couple of experimental solitaire board games I've made over the last few years (one is a sci-fi trading game and another is a junked out, hostile prison planet deal that you try to escape from)... for these I use a combination of a game board and a character stat and check off sheet.

Board and other table top games rock and will never be truthfully 100% replaced in my opinion... their market may be all but utterly beaten up by pc and console games, but you'll never be able to fully replace the feeling of sitting down at a table and interacting (plus the follies... like the one person that can never seem to roll their dice right, such as it rolling off the table, the person that always hogs up the bean dip, etc.)

Pop Tarts. I eat too many Pop Tarts.

Drosta- I try the same thing with my wife and it never works... rpg books, regular books, board games, miniatures, etc. In our house "coming out of the closet" means my wife caught me red handed trying to slip in some new purchase that I snuck and got. Its not really a money issue either, as I really don't spend all that much... its more of a space issue.