Deadzone Plague - Now in Technicolor!

All of my Plagued for Deadzone are painted! Well, they were until Mantic decided to mail me a sprue of Plagued to show off how they look in hard plastic. I wrote most of this a couple months ago along with taking some in progress shots to accompany this blog post. I took dozens of pictures both during and after the painting process, but ended up with only one usable photo after I adjusted the lighting levels. I tried multiple lighting set ups and camera settings and still do not understand what is going on. This unfortunately means I have no in progress photos. I still have that sprue of Plague in hard plastic I mentioned. I may wait to paint them until after I obtain a new camera or see if it is a case of needing better lighting.

The Future of Icons of Paragon City

I do not know what the future of Icons of Paragon City is right now. We took a break over the holidays and will be discussing it soonish. I pushed hard for a weekly game so we could wrap up in the first half of December. The feedback has been positive so far, but I wanted to give people a couple of weeks to decompress before seriously discussing where we go, or if we go anywhere, from here.

The Lessons of Icons of Paragon City

I had this whole series typed up before I made the first post. This section keeps changing as the evaluation shifts. I decided to go ahead and post this so we can move on even though I know this is not the final state of what we have learned from this first session.

The Story of Icons of Paragon City

The run was originally intended to be six sessions with two one off sessions using different characters in the same setting and using the same rules provided by the game master. I missed one of the regular sessions so that was shortened to five. The first one off session was Halloween weekend and saw the players taking on the role of Universal Movie Monster clones funded by an unhappy Council. The other one off we played Worms: Armageddon as not many showed up as it was Thanksgiving weekend, but it was going to see the players as Walmart employees in Paragon City reliving Black Friday in a Groundhog's Day scenario. I guess I like horror themed one off games.

The Origin of Icons of Paragon City

I am a member of some forums where some of us would get together on Saturday nights and play games sometimes. More often than not the game we played was Cards Against Humanity. The game is fun, but you can only cycle through the same cards so many times before the charm begins to wear thin. Roleplaying games and an interest in trying them had been brought up a couple of times, but no one had a real go at running a game for the group as far as I know.

Actually, It's About Ethics in Game Journalism

The gaming community has been in what might be seen as the precursory rumblings to the gaming equivalent of a Civil War. The debate has to do with opinions concerning gaming and have made practically everybody touching the subjects involved look bad in the process. Gamergate is at the center of these debates as of right now. I do not mean to suggest those that support Gamergate are better or worse than anybody else, but elements from all sides have done wrong over the course of the past few months and the topic of Gamergate is featured heavily in those discussions right now.

Blog Fail November 2014

I have yet again not worked to maintain my blog. Sure, there are some articles sitting in folders waiting to be published, but I have not taken the time to upload them. There are two articles right now ready to be added to the Lurker Series along with a few others I should probably look over as some time has passed since writing them. I truthfully do not know what I will be sharing or not in the future. It looks like the Lurker Series may never be added to in the future due to drama of my own creation.