Update!

I've not been posting much beyond photos of late, I know. Here's a bit of an update.

J&F Hobbies, the curious little RPG store and jumble shop in the west end of the city, finally closed in the spring of this year. I discovered this last week, when I attemped to bring shadow_maze there. The store had been in business for 20 years, and perpetually seemed to be on the verge of closing. I first discovered it in 1997. My last visit was in mid-March, when I picked up a bunch of Planescape books, some still in their shrinkwrap.

On Friday evening I was in Toronto for a planning/character generation session for kores_rabbit's new Eberron game. I've rolled up a Warforged Cleric, a worshipper of the god of profit and gold. I see him as a sort of combination of Syndey Greenstreet, Mr. Punch, and a Franklin stove. After, I drove kores_rabbit home and my headlights stopped working. Joy!

Saturday, commanderteddog and her sister, sassy_fae, nottheterritory, catsarah and momentrabbit were over for the next installment of my Star Wars game. A couple of the players were recovering from flu and were feeling poorly, and my own energy ebbed rapidly as the evening proceeded, so we broke up stupidly early. (Like, 7:30 PM.) However, much of the group had been over before the game for a screening of the 1980 Flash Gordon movie, so the day was not as disappointing as it might have been.


I should make a note of Teddog's dedication to the game! She baked Alderaan Chocolate Chunk Wookie Cookies. Which is to say, she made chocolate chip cookies with green and brown chunks of chocolate in them, representing pieces of Alderaan. Except it's better than that.


You see, in order to create a proper set of Alderaan chunks, she melted the chocolate into a global map Alderaan. Before smashing it, and baking it into cookies.


Also, everyone liked the little Lego minis I put together for them.