Geeking Out

drcpunk  is sending me copies of The Shackled City campaign (which I epxect to read and maybe steal something from) and, more importantly, Conan d20. Given that Conan was one of the clear foundations for D&D's eneric fantasy environment it seems natural that the character would have a gaming property, especially since 3E finally had a working Barbarian class mechanic. I'm very interested to see what the book reads like, and if there are things in it I can steal for the island northerners in my Emirikol campaign.

Last weekend, during a hellish ongoing work problem, my lovely wife dragged me out of the house for a date - cheeseburger's at Harry's in Colchester and a matinee of Pixar's UP. It was a lovely afternoon and the movie was fantastic. It was nice seeing a film where I couldn't predict everything that was going to happen based on the opening 10 minutes because it was a clever and novel story concept (rather than because the plot had enormous holes and the characters kept making incredibly stupid and/or out of character decisions - I'm talking to you Star Trek). Plus, there was a nice visual depiction of a game mechanic in it. 

( Minimal spoilers behind cut )